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mrmaverick

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Hi

I'm planning to buy my first gaming pc

Can you give this build a quick look and see whether you can suggest any improvements
I am looking for tweaks such as: downgrades which will provide a significant saving without affecting performance, upgrades that won't add much to the price but will provide a significant increase in performance or longevity; any other advice.
I've pasted the spec below - I'd be grateful to hear what you guys think.

Cheers

. Intel i5 4670 Quad Core 3.40 GHz,
. ASROCK B85M (USB3 - 2 x DDR3 1600),
. 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 (1 x 8Gb),
. Integrated Sound Card,
. Corsair Hydro H60 High-Performance Liquid CPU Cooler,
. Aerocool F4XT Fan Controller,
. DVD+/- RW - 22X Samsung SATA,
. 500GB S-ATAIII Hard Drive 6.0Gb/s,
. No Secondary Hard Drive,
. 52-In-1 Internal Card Reader,
. Nvidia GTX780 (3072MB),
. No Monitor,
. Spire Savit 6003 ATX Gaming Case Enthusiast Case (Black) No PSU,
. CORSAIR 850W TX PSU,
. Windows 7 Home premium 64 bit,
. No Software,
. TP-link Wireless PCI N adapter TL-WN851N,
. 12 Months Warranty,
. Shipping England & Wales

price is £1151
 
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chrisso

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if you are just playing games, a 4430 will do fine with practically 0 difference in almost all games. If you are patient, novatech knock them out on british ebay slightly used from customer returns boxes for £99.
 
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chrisso

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Then you wont need the liquid cooling loop, an arctic alpine r2 95w will do for £9.,
It is not worth buying a 500 gig harddrive because 1000gigs are only £4 dearer.
Lose the b85 board for games, you need something like the h87m-plus. (£72)
 
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mrmaverick

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thnx so much for your reply's guys
I've just done some improvements
that's the result

. Intel i5 4440 Quad Cache 3.00 GHz,
. ASUS H87M-PLUS 4 x DDR3 1600,
. 8GB DDR3 Corsair 1600 (2 x 4Gb),
. Integrated Sound Card,
. Corsair Hydro H60 High-Performance Liquid CPU Cooler,
. DVD+/- RW - 22X Samsung SATA,
. 1000GB S-ATAIII Hard Drive 6.0Gb/s,
. No Secondary Hard Drive,
. 52-In-1 Internal Card Reader,
. Nvidia GTX780 (3072MB),
. No Monitor,
. Zalman Z11 Windowed Tower Case - Black,
. CORSAIR 850W TX PSU,
. Windows 7 Home premium 64 bit,
. No Software,
. TP-link Wireless PCI N adapter TL-WN851N,
 
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I think that this isn't a balanced build. You have a great GPU and PSU, and you spend less for vital parts of the system (motherboard for example). Tell me please...

1)Does it have to be pre-build?
2)Do you have a monitor? If yes what's the resolution? Having GTX 780 on a 1336x760 monitor is a huge waste of money.

 
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chrisso

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Tho I dont agree about the motherboard ( I just got one, its loaded!) I agreee about the gpu.
Unless you have a 27' super hi res montor or are going to use multi monitors a GTX 760 is good enough.
Remind the pc builders that the Asus H87m-plus has dolby 7.1 native, and you want it jacked in to the case. so you can use it.
 
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That's a reference on what I would buy. 280X and 780 perfomance of course is not similar but a build like this costs around 900 pounds and has great 1920x1080 perfomance.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£109.99 @ Novatech)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 256GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£109.98 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.97 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£239.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Fractal Design Core 3000 USB 3.0 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£58.78 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£47.12 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 - OEM (64-bit) (£85.02 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £920.98
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-19 16:29 GMT+0000)

 
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chrisso

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See what yoyotech has on there standard builds, you might save a little. They were pc builder for John Lewis, who won pc retailer of the year two years running with there machines until john lewis wanted too bigger discount.
 
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mrmaverick

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sounds good
are you sure this power supply is good enough for gpu?
will they be able to build this pc themsevles for me for extra charge
 
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Of course. It's a high quality PSU with plenty of power for this system. I don't know If they can build a similar machine for such price. This one is not pre build. You can ask them though :)
 
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mrmaverick

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it looks amazing as well, i'll probably add an ssd to this pc for my budget and it's gonna be even better
thanks chrisso
 
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chrisso

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You dont need a solid state drive, the 1000 gig hybrid drive has a large chunk of solid state memory bolted on and a controller that learns to cache your regular accesses. It performs nearly half way between a mechanical drive and a solid state drive, whilst being cheaper than having to buy both. If you do get a solid state boot drive, UNSELECT THE HYBRID DRIVE and pick the 2 gig storage drive, or the hybrid will be a waste of money.
 
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