Mid Gaming Build For 9 Year Old Nephew Thoughts any Tweaks needed?

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Asus VS197DE 18.5" LED Monitor - Black £79.99
Corsair AX860i Digital ATX '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply £169.99
Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive £59.99
Corsair Value 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single Channel Kit £31.99 x2
EVGA GeForce GTX 750Ti FTW ACX 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £131.99
ASRock Z87 PRO3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £69.95
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM - Retail £159.95
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Total= £897.77
 
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I would go with this, then add the keyboard and mouse pad combo to it.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£137.03 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo 43.1 CFM CPU Cooler (£16.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£54.37 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£55.36 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Crucial M500 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£84.98 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
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What's the budget?

You don't need a PSU anywhere near that expensive. Something like a 650W XFX 80+ Bronze would do fine.

Beef up the graphics card to at least a 760. You should be able to do that from the money saved on the PSU.

I'd try and stick 2x4GB of RAM in that system too. Possibly change to a locked 3470 and a B/H board if you have to squeeze it into the budget. Note that you also have the wrong socket motherboard/processor. They need to match, either both 1150 or 1155.
 
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Would your nephew overclock the pc? Also for i5 3570k you need a z77 mobo not z87 thats for haswell cpus.
I'd suggest getting a less expensive psu, like a 550watt 80+ bronze xfx, seasonic, etc. And if your nephew won't overclock the pc, something like a 4570 with a b85 (or h81) motherboard. That way you can save some money to invest in 8gb 1866 ram and gpu like a 770 or 280x.or a 760/270x with a 120gb ssd.
 
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Built this a few days ago, comes in under budget with the exception of the monitor. You could just leave out the SSD to pick up a decent 23" as mentioned.

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3fV20
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3fV20/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3fV20/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£166.99 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Xigmatek GAIA SD1283 56.3 CFM CPU Cooler
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£67.99 @ Novatech)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£61.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£109.37 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£249.99 @ Dabs)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.65 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£63.73 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.72 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£81.56 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £851.99
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-29 21:23 GMT+0000)
 
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A good build would be an intel i5 with 3.0 ghz, starting with 8 gb of ddr3 ram on an LGA 1155 with a 16 or 32 gb ram max. Then for christmas you can upgrade his system to a 16 or 36 gb.
 
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Why would a 9 year old boy need 16 GB?? He won't be any kind of rendering or video editing...
 
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Yeah but lets say this 9 year old boy wanted to host something like a minecraft server. Also do you want to listen to a 11 y/o bitch about his slow system? Because in 2 years 8 gb won't be enough. Because to be honest I was that 11 y/o in the 90s/2000s.

 
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In the first place, if it's "slow" it won't be because lack of ram (unless he has some sort of issue and has like 200-300 chrome/firefox tabs, a couple of servers, and games runnings).
Also I don't know how you can say 8 gb won't be enough, 4 gb it's still plenty enough, but it's reccomended 8gb because it gives some "future proofing".
Also about hosting a minecraft server... why would you need 16gb to host a minecraft server? He'll have to have a good upload first and if it's just with some friends he won't ever need more than 8gb.
And he wants to bitch, let him bitch, don't pamper him.
 
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Yeah, I guess. I mean, I don't know much about all these stuff in a formal way, but I've build pcs for a couple of friends and none of them (for their budget) complained for having 4 gb. What saddens me is people like him missinforming people and people listening to them, and then like another friend of mine, who I gave him some tips to build a pc but ended up buying 16gb of 2133 ram, a 850 watt "real" (yeah not even bronze certified or even 80plus) psu and a 650 :/
 
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Imagine the 9 year old failing to run a server... he probably doesn't have enough maturity to run one properly; maybe one for him and his friends to play on though, which that build CAN handle.
 
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Yeah, my little cousin convinced me to host a minecraft server for him a while back for his friends. I know he can't run a full on server but you know what I mean.
 
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Mine has a lot of ram for rendering and developing. I need that much. I used 64 gb for a while but that didn't cut it for my needs.
 
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It would be a birthday present. People are allowed to get nice things on their birthday.

 
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Woah, woah, woah!!!! An 1155 CPU in an 1150 socket!!! Wait how did we not notice!
 
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I would go with this, then add the keyboard and mouse pad combo to it.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£137.03 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo 43.1 CFM CPU Cooler (£16.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£54.37 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£55.36 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Crucial M500 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£84.98 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£221.99 @ Aria PC)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.98 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£45.76 @ Amazon UK)
Monitor: Hannspree HE225DPB 21.5" Monitor (£86.92 @ Ebuyer)
Speakers: Creative Labs A60 4W 2ch Speakers (£50.80 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £849.13
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-15 03:15 BST+0100)
 
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