I am planning to build my first gaming PC.
The two games I expect to play most are Battlefield 4 and SWTOR. I am not too worried about the performance needed for SWTOR and - taking into account that mantle is about to arrive - I thought that an AMD build would be best for BF4.
I have read a lot about building your own system, but I do not have any actual experience and there are a couple things that I can't quite figure out.
I am not going to include an optical drive, how will I be able to install the OS?
Will the mainboard be sufficient for the CPU? (If not, is there any way I could run it on another mATX board?)
Are there any oversights in the parts I chose or do you see any other problems arising?
The parts:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2CKjg
CPU heatsink: http://www.alternate.de/Scythe/Katana_4,_CPU-Kuehler/html/product/986829/?
(should work clearance-wise)
I will be using one 8GB 1600mhz module from my main rig for Ram.
PS: I would like to stay under 500 GBP (if the SSD makes it go slightly over that's alright). I would also like to experiment with overclocking etc. (Essentially this system is somewhat of a trial run for a system with several times this budget that I will be building in about a years time and I would rather make mistakes now than then.)
The two games I expect to play most are Battlefield 4 and SWTOR. I am not too worried about the performance needed for SWTOR and - taking into account that mantle is about to arrive - I thought that an AMD build would be best for BF4.
I have read a lot about building your own system, but I do not have any actual experience and there are a couple things that I can't quite figure out.
I am not going to include an optical drive, how will I be able to install the OS?
Will the mainboard be sufficient for the CPU? (If not, is there any way I could run it on another mATX board?)
Are there any oversights in the parts I chose or do you see any other problems arising?
The parts:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2CKjg
CPU heatsink: http://www.alternate.de/Scythe/Katana_4,_CPU-Kuehler/html/product/986829/?
(should work clearance-wise)
I will be using one 8GB 1600mhz module from my main rig for Ram.
PS: I would like to stay under 500 GBP (if the SSD makes it go slightly over that's alright). I would also like to experiment with overclocking etc. (Essentially this system is somewhat of a trial run for a system with several times this budget that I will be building in about a years time and I would rather make mistakes now than then.)
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