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Building my first pc for gaming and work - suggestions needed!

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March 24, 2014 10:51:20 AM

Hi,

I have been playing games a lot recently and was looking to invest my money in a good/worth the price custom built pc as it seems to be better doing and funner. Also this means the possibility of customization and removal of certain parts in the future. I am not very experienced in this sector and require assistance and suggestions. I have about 900euro/ $1,200/750pounds to spend. I do not mind whether it slightly exceeds my money limit, I am looking for the best build I can get with that money NOT including any monitors/peripherals .etc. I have looked at PCPartPicker and do not have much of a clue where to start, I've looked at videos and have the general idea of what I need - I would prefer Nvidia over ASD. Whatever suggestions and must haves will be a great help! I am not sure what the average price for each component should be and how to balance everything out. Not to forget, I do little work, only microsoft word .etc. I will also be watching bluray films, at the moment I have a DVD drive to use and plan to buy a bluray drive in the future, I don't mind whether it is included in the overall build for the moment. At the moment I play Rust, DayZ, Metro, Bioshock, Borderlands, Skyrim and a whole list of similar games quite similar. I will also be looking to keeping this for 2 years or more and be playing games such Titanfall and possibly other mainstream games.

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March 24, 2014 10:58:44 AM

Intel i5-4670K € 201,10
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 2GB € 286,10
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo € 27,70
Asus Z87-K € 98,70
Samsung 120GB 840 Evo € 76,20
Western digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB € 51,30
Lite-On IHAS124-04 € 14,50
Corsair CX600M € 61,80
Corsair Carbide 300R € 62,40
Corsair 2x4GB DDR3, 1866MHz, 240pin DIMM € 83,00

Total with shipping €972,75
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March 24, 2014 11:50:04 AM

Rohit Jackdaw said:
Intel i5-4670K € 201,10
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 2GB € 286,10
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo € 27,70
Asus Z87-K € 98,70
Samsung 120GB 840 Evo € 76,20
Western digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB € 51,30
Lite-On IHAS124-04 € 14,50
Corsair CX600M € 61,80
Corsair Carbide 300R € 62,40
Corsair 2x4GB DDR3, 1866MHz, 240pin DIMM € 83,00

Total with shipping €972,75


So this would be the best pc build I should do with the money I have? Is it possible you could explain each part as when I looked at them I wasn't entirely sure what it was :/  Sorry as I'm a beginner at this! I know the PSU, CPU motherboard and case but the other I do not understand. Also I have a spare dvd drive hanging around so do you think it is necessary I buy one? Also the Corsair 2x4GB DDR3 1866MHz does not appear on PCPartPicker: are these all the items you mentioned, ones missing could you possible fill in as I was unsure :)  http://it.pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/
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March 24, 2014 10:57:03 PM

Robotmutt said:
Rohit Jackdaw said:
Intel i5-4670K € 201,10
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 2GB € 286,10
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo € 27,70
Asus Z87-K € 98,70
Samsung 120GB 840 Evo € 76,20
Western digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB € 51,30
Lite-On IHAS124-04 € 14,50
Corsair CX600M € 61,80
Corsair Carbide 300R € 62,40
Corsair 2x4GB DDR3, 1866MHz, 240pin DIMM € 83,00

Total with shipping €972,75


So this would be the best pc build I should do with the money I have? Is it possible you could explain each part as when I looked at them I wasn't entirely sure what it was :/  Sorry as I'm a beginner at this! I know the PSU, CPU motherboard and case but the other I do not understand. Also I have a spare dvd drive hanging around so do you think it is necessary I buy one? Also the Corsair 2x4GB DDR3 1866MHz does not appear on PCPartPicker: are these all the items you mentioned, ones missing could you possible fill in as I was unsure :)  http://it.pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/

The GTX 770 is the graphics card
Cooler Master Hyper 212 is the CPU Cooler
Samsung Evo is the solid state drive
WD Caviar Blue is the hard drive
And also if u have a spare dvd drive then that's enough. Make sure its sata and not ide since sata is the modern technology. Also ssd can be used as your boot drive for much faster system and hard disk for storage. If u don't want fast booting and faster application loading then u can consider not buying an ssd to save money. Some like it and some do not. SSD is a storage device which is 4x faster than a hard drive and does not have any moving parts unlike hard drive but their costs from low capacity of 120 or lower gb starts from 75 dollars and goes upto even 1000 plus dollar for higher capacity.
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