£700 gaming PC with monitor

tjunior94

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Budget Range: £700

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Word Processing, Browsing, Gaming, Solidworks (Basic practice)

Are you buying a monitor: Yes

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon but I'd use other sites that are recommended

Location: UK

Parts Preferences: Intel processor, ASUS where possible (but not necessary)

Overclocking: No

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: I don't have one at the moment but the one I'm looking it is 1080p.

I'm looking to buy a new PC at in the next week or so and I need some help coming up with a build. The link below is something that I have been working on for some time and I was wondering if any improvements I could make. I set the budget to £700 but I'm flexible about it.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2HfES

Is the 240gb SSD worth it or should i reduce it to 120GB and save money? (I only use about 200gb total storage on my current laptop) Or should i completely remove the SSD.

I don't plan on overclocking my processor because I think it would increase the cost by alot (Processor, motherboard, cooling) hence the lack of an i5 4670k

Also the monitor I selected is 23" but I have found a 21.5 inch monitor for £30 less. Is the size difference noticeable?

The games that I would like to play are BF3/4, FIFA, NBA 2k14, League or Legends and Crysis.

Ideally I would love to save as much money as possible as long as I can play these games on medium/high.

I was planning delaying the purchase of the graphics card to see what MANTLE is like and the new maxwell series from nvidia.. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks in advance :)


 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£107.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.18 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard (£74.37 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Sandisk 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£59.99 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.97 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (£176.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master K280 ATX Mid Tower Case (£33.43 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.96 @ CCL Computers)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHDS118-04 DVD/CD Drive (£10.78 @ Scan.co.uk)
Monitor: Hannspree HE225DPB 21.5" Monitor (£86.83 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £723.47
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-25 14:52 GMT+0000)

if you absolutely MUST stay under 700, drop the heatsink
 
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