Gaming PC & and basic video editing PC. Budget £1500

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MajorBob

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My current PC specs are:
FX4170 @4.2ghz
HD7850 2 gb
8gb ram
500gb hdd
It runs most games pretty decently but i'm a big battlefield fan and want to play that game maxed out. Now i'm working i figured i'd dump some money into getting a new pc, however i can't decide on what componets to get.
The only specfication i know is that i want an intel build.
 
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Cmonsta

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As an example, I just bought a Z87 MSI GD65, Intel i5-4670K, and a used Asus R9 280x 3GB for...

220 cpu
175 mobo
+220 GPU
$615, or £366.44

So my recommendation is to get an AMD 280x or 290x to take advantage of AMD mantle for BF4.
Only things other than that you maybe need to upgrade is your PSU, which will run about $150 or about £90. Post some info on your other specs.

Grand total of £456.44 excl tax and shipping. Not too familiar with AMD CPU's so I'm just assuming it's 4+ years older and worthy of an upgrade. £1500 is a LOT more than you need to spend to max out BF4 at 60fps, assuming 1080p resolution.
 
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MajorBob

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Mobo is a Biostar TA990fxe also have an 850w psu. The cpu is about 2 years old but it hasn't really impressed me much.
I've been tempted to go complete overkill and get the 780ti but would that bottleneck the i5 or would it cope?
 
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Cmonsta

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Psu sounds good, 850 watts is what I have and it's serious overkill.

The 780ti and 290x performs in real world terms exactly the same in battlefield 4, as in totally playable on uber max, but Nvidia claims to have performance increases on the way. The actual difference is 3-5 FPS playing at 2560x1440 resolution.So a 780ti wouldn't be overkill for if you want.

bf4.jpg

Here's a chart that is Pre-mantle, mantle gave a boost to AMD cards that brought them up in line with Nvidia, sometimes passing them. Real world though they're the same. 8 FPS difference pre mantle, post mantle the 290x hits 80 FPS. There's so many variables from test to test though so my attitude is to just shrug.

So really a 780ti or 290x for me personally would come down to;

Which is cheaper
Which is quieter

I recommended the AMD series simply because Litecoin and Bitcoin mining is huge with AMD cards, so there are a lot of second hand cards you can get for really cheap. For example it's $380 for a new Asus 280x and I just bought one on ebay for $220 with free shipping. Hooray, and when I sell my old 560Ti the upgrade will cost me $135.

A i5 4670k will not bottleneck a 780ti even in SLI. The 4760k runs at 3.4ghz stock, and can be overclocked to 4.0 pretty much guaranteed, on the MSI GD65 Mobo I have I push one button and it's 4.0ghz, and the chip can be pushed to somewhere between 4.2 and 4.7ghz depending on the individual chip. Also lots of AMD processors to choose from, I was just giving mine as an example. Here's an always handy chart to compare CPU benchmark results. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Games generally stop giving FPS gains pretty quickly with the new batch of CPU's, from an i5 4670k to i7 4770k for instance. There are comparisons between the two for specific games like BF4 you could look up.

Have fun building your new rig!
 
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PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3uSeU
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3uSeU/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3uSeU/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£179.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£58.56 @ Dabs)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£58.49 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial M500 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£82.74 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£53.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card (£489.99 @ Dabs)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case (£79.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£81.46 @ Dabs)
Total: £1085.21
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-20 04:19 BST+0100)
 
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You're taking a gamble with used parts though.
 
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