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April 4, 2014 9:43:21 AM

I am basically building a new PC and would like some recommendations please. I plan to use it in the future for gaming and want to make it so I don't buy a PC for the next 3-5 years (yeah here's hoping to that but lasted with my old one for about 2).

Also would you recommend me waiting, if so how long for better prices?
(From the UK- England before you're asking why is it in £s)

Currently What I have bought:
Fractal R4 Windowed Grey/Titinum £64.98
Corsair PSU 80+ gold 650W £79.99
Kingston 16 GB 2400 MHz HyperX Beast Desktop Memory Kit (4 x 4GB) - Intel XMP £92.54

Considering buying:
MSI Z87-GD65-GAMING ATX Motherboard (Intel Z87 LGA1150 Socket) £127.99
Intel Core i5 4670K £166.99

Ordered all the parts from amazon, expect the ram which was on amazon but different seller. Yes I know amazon isn't the cheapest but when I did buy these items they were.
I did find good deal on SCAN for motherboard and cooler but I've never used them and there live chat sucks, pretty much left 3 messages spaced over time which had no response so I don't see that as a good sign. Would buy from other sellers if they are good as amazon or near enough.

Not sure how big I should get the water cooler for the CPU, 120, 140 or full 280. I do plan to Overclock.

Budget £550 MAX ... already bound to go over the £450 mark :pfff: 
Oh should mention this is my first ever PC build.


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a b 4 Gaming
April 4, 2014 10:14:30 AM

This should work very good with what you already have:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£161.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.45 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£99.98 @ Novatech)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.24 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£227.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £557.65
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-04 18:14 BST+0100)
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a b 4 Gaming
April 4, 2014 10:22:31 PM

PepitoTV said:
This should work very good with what you already have:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£161.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.45 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£99.98 @ Novatech)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.24 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£227.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £557.65
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-04 18:14 BST+0100)


+1 but if you want to save money remove the CPU fan.
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