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March 29, 2014 1:46:10 PM

Mouse Mat £19.99
CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle - USB Keyboard & Mouse - £29.99
Creative A60 2.0 Speaker System £13.99
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
Aerocool Syclone II Midi Tower Case - Black/Red £67.99
Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme Rev.2 High Performance Quiet CPU Cooler £29.99

Total= £897.77

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March 29, 2014 2:01:27 PM

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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March 29, 2014 2:01:30 PM

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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March 29, 2014 2:14:48 PM

get 23" monitor if you want to play with Full HD resolution
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March 29, 2014 2:24:55 PM

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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March 29, 2014 2:40:41 PM

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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March 29, 2014 2:53:04 PM

Fewshin said:
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.


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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March 29, 2014 2:56:39 PM

Munetaka said:
Fewshin said:
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.


Why would a 9 year old boy need 16 GB?? He won't be any kind of rendering or video editing...


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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March 29, 2014 3:12:12 PM

Fewshin said:
Munetaka said:
Fewshin said:
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.


Why would a 9 year old boy need 16 GB?? He won't be any kind of rendering or video editing...


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.



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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March 29, 2014 3:28:07 PM

Munetaka, don't pay attention what Fewshin is going on about - he has 128GB RAM in his PC probably because someone has told HIM that his PC was slow lol Some people...
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March 29, 2014 3:43:50 PM

Mouldread said:
Munetaka, don't pay attention what Fewshin is going on about - he has 128GB RAM in his PC probably because someone has told HIM that his PC was slow lol Some people...


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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March 29, 2014 3:56:52 PM

buy the kid a ps4.
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March 29, 2014 6:14:55 PM

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March 29, 2014 10:37:49 PM

Munetaka said:
Fewshin said:
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.


Why would a 9 year old boy need 16 GB?? He won't be any kind of rendering or video editing...


Fewshin said:
Munetaka said:
Fewshin said:
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.


Why would a 9 year old boy need 16 GB?? He won't be any kind of rendering or video editing...


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.



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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March 30, 2014 3:25:59 PM

sora said:
Munetaka said:
Fewshin said:
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.


Why would a 9 year old boy need 16 GB?? He won't be any kind of rendering or video editing...


Fewshin said:
Munetaka said:
Fewshin said:
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.


Why would a 9 year old boy need 16 GB?? He won't be any kind of rendering or video editing...


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.



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.

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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April 4, 2014 11:45:59 AM

Thanks guys I forgot to change the Mobo when I was Reviewing the Price And I didnt want to overpower this to much for him
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April 5, 2014 8:47:35 AM

Mouldread said:
Munetaka, don't pay attention what Fewshin is going on about - he has 128GB RAM in his PC probably because someone has told HIM that his PC was slow lol Some people...

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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April 14, 2014 6:26:08 PM

Munetaka said:
Fewshin said:
Munetaka said:
Fewshin said:
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.


Why would a 9 year old boy need 16 GB?? He won't be any kind of rendering or video editing...


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.



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.

It would be a birthday present. People are allowed to get nice things on their birthday.

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April 14, 2014 6:27:44 PM

comrade117 said:
Mouse Mat £19.99
CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle - USB Keyboard & Mouse - £29.99
Creative A60 2.0 Speaker System £13.99
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
Aerocool Syclone II Midi Tower Case - Black/Red £67.99
Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme Rev.2 High Performance Quiet CPU Cooler £29.99

Total= £897.77

Woah, woah, woah!!!! An 1155 CPU in an 1150 socket!!! Wait how did we not notice!
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April 14, 2014 7:15:59 PM

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.)
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