Building My Own PC

bu3abed

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Hello,

I'm thinking of building a new gaming PC. This is my first time in building so my information might be limited. Ive read a lot of articles and watched a lot of videos on how to build a pc, so i have a good idea on how its going to be.

I'm building the PC especially for two games; League of legends and Elder Scrolls i was wondering if these parts are enough to run these two games on ultra or high at least.

These are the specs i went with which will cost me around £780

Case:
Zalman Z11 Plus Midi Tower Case (ATX, M-ATX, Suppor​ts Bottom PSU Instal​lation and Apertu​re for Cable Manage​ment, Anti-V​ibratio​n Rubber Stand) by Zalman
£47.98

Hard drive:
WESTERN DIGITA​L WD10EZ​EX Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RP​M 64MB cache SATA 6.0Gb/​s 3.5 intern​al hard drive (Bare Drive) Offered by LambdaTek ComponentShop by Western Digital
£56.03

Power Supply:
Corsair CP-902​0055-UK RM Series RM750 80 Plus Gold 750W ATX/EP​S Fully Modula​r Power Supply Unit Offered by ADMI Limited UK by Corsair
£98.95

Graphics Card:
Sapphir​e AMD R9 280X 3GB 384 Bit GDDR5 OC Full Retail Pci-E Graphi​cs Card by SAPPHIRE
£229.99

RAM:
Corsair CMZ8GX​3M2A160​0C9 Vengea​nce 8GB (2x4GB​) DDR3 1600 Mhz CL9 XMP Perfor​mance Deskto​p Memory Kit Black by Corsair
£64.99


Motherboard:
MSI Z87-G4​5-GAMIN​G ATX Mother​board (Intel Z87, 4x DDR3, DVI, HDMI, 6x USB3.0​, GBE LAN, LGA115​0 Socket​) by MSI COMPUTER
£105.74

CPU:
Intel Core i5 4670K Quad Core Retail CPU (Socke​t 1150, 3.40GH​z, 6MB, Haswel​l, 84W, Intel Graphi​cs, BX8064​6I74770​, 4th Genera​tion Intel Core, Turbo Boost Techno​logy 2.0) by Intel
£169.94

The list of the products on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/wishlist/Y2J2DEP8KPRK/ref=topnav_lists_1


I need your help to check if all these parts are compatible, and if there is a better option for the same amount of money.

As i said this is my first time in building a PC so any help will be appreciated.


Thank You
 

Gaming God

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Your Config Is Good
But Here I Am Recommending A Better Option For Gaming, It Can Handle Present Day Games And The Future Ones Since The New Games Will Be Multi-Core Optimised

Processor
AMD A10 AD785KXBJABOX 7850K Black Edition with Radeon R7 Series New FM2+ Kaveri HSA CPU
£133.73 Compared To Your £169.94 i5 MONEY SAVED:£36.21
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General Features

Brand AMD
Socket Type FM2+
Series A-Series
Model ID A-Series Accelerated Processor Unit A10-7850K

General
Number of Cores 12 Cores
Speed 4 GHz


Mother Board
Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X Motherboard (DDR3, Socket FM2+, PCI Express 3.0)
£76.51 Compared To Your £105.74 MONEY SAVED:£29.23
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•Format : ATX (30.5 x 22.5 cm)
•Socket type : FM2+
•Chipset type : A88X
•Graphics : AMD Radeon HD 8000/7000
•Audio : Realtek ALC898 codec
•Exclusive Upgradable OP-AMP
•Exclusive Gain Boost
•Audio Noise Guard with LED Path Lighting
•Nichicon High End Audio Capacitors
•Noise-less USB DAC-UP port

RAM
YOU CAN USE THE ONE YOU HAVE MENTIONED



Graphics Card
VTX3D AMD Radeon R9 290 X-Edition Graphics Card (4GB, GDDR5, PCI Express 3.0)
£358.5 Compared To Your £229.99 MONEY NOT SAVED:£128.51
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AMD CrossFire Technology
AMD Eyefinty Technology
AMD HD Media Accelerator
AMD PowerPlay Technology
AMD PowerTune Technology
Memory 4GB
Power 750 Watt

Power Supply
YOU CAN USE THE ONE YOU HAVE MENTIONED


HDD
WD 1TB 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive - Caviar Blue
£43.99 Compared To Your £56.03 MONEY SAVED:£12.04

Cabinet
Cooler Master K-Series K380 USB3.0 Side Window Case for ATX PC
£37.82 Compared To Your £47.98 MONEY SAVED:£10.16
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MY CONFIG COST AROUNG £40 MORE, BUT ITS WORTH 10X THE MONEY. NOW THE CHOICE IS YOURS
 

Gaming God

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I cant believe you said that.
AMD APU's Sucks, I Admit it, but when it comes to an a8 or an a10 it is the best.
the a10 7850 the best you can get.
it has 12 cores--- the games releasing in the near future will me multi core optimized, hence this is a massive advantage.

I have been using it for some time now and its way faster than my i7 3930.

I support your statement that amd's processors are bad, but not the a10s and some bulldozers.
AMD PROVIDES MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK
 

veladem

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At your price range follow master Mohammadmo's words and stay away from the AMD APU's, as having a CPU/GPU combo isn't a good idea as of yet for today's games.

That i5 will push in games better then any APU right now Imho.

There is a reason why TheMohammadmo has a CPU expert badge, and that's because he's been around the block and compared more then a few CPU's in his days on this forum.

In all honesty you could drop your CPU a little and get a better GPU but stick with the CPU and discrete GPU combo, no APU's.

Gaming is roughly 20% CPU and 80% GPU in most games.
 

TheMohammadmo

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Thank you veladem. Sorry for not responding you guys. But yeah, you just have a slightly better gpu but you have a downgraded cpu. You really want to have a nice little combo going on like veladem mentioned. Theres gonna be no point of having a pentium processor and a gtx titan. Completely pointless.