PC Gaming Build

Polso · Apr 20, 2014

Hi,
I was looking for a PC build for gaming.
I don't want do overclock.
My maximum badget is 1200 €.

This is what i though:

Case: Fractal Design Define R4 Arctic White
Power Supply: Corsiar RM650
CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2g
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer i30 Extreme
Motherboard: Asus H87-PRO C2
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Low Profile — 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit 1600Mhz
Graphic Card: Sapphire Tri-x R9 290 4g Gddr5
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5
Hard Disk: WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM

Total Cost: 1200 €

What do you think about? How i can do better?

Thanks everybody for your answers

g-unit1111 · Apr 20, 2014

You can definitely do better in a few areas especially for your budget:

1. Low end Arctic Cooling fans are complete garbage, you want at least a Hyper 212 Evo.

2. Corsair RM power supplies are decent but there's definitely better out there.

3. I would get a GTX 770 over a Radeon R9 myself.

What country are you buying from? If you post that and the store you are buying from it will help to suggest parts.

Its_Byte_00 · Apr 20, 2014

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

CPU: Intel Core i7-4820K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£223.80 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£79.98 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 ATX LGA2011 Motherboard (£131.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Kingston Beast 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£107.75 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 480GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£159.29 @ Dabs)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£239.72 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Thermaltake Overseer RX-I ATX Full Tower Case (£81.65 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000G2 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£130.30 @ Dabs)
Total: £1154.48
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-21 02:53 BST+0100)

Its amazing how many people will post a build from the us pcpartpicker website and just convert euros to usd. what a joke.

Anyways, this is going to get you the best for your money. 2011 cpu's give you 40 lanes of pci express which means better multi gpu and the psu is also ready for it. the watercooler is a aio so all you do is screw the cans into it and then it into the case and your good.

g-unit1111 · Apr 20, 2014

Its_Byte_00 :

Agree there, but since the OP is in the mainland EU, links to British websites won't exactly be of use either.

Anyways, this is going to get you the best for your money. 2011 cpu's give you 40 lanes of pci express which means better multi gpu and the psu is also ready for it. the watercooler is a aio so all you do is screw the cans into it and then it into the case and your good.

Based on what logic? You're overpaying for the processor and motherboard for nothing gained back in terms of extra performance. The 4820K is not worth investing in when you could get the 4770K for less money while still retaining all the benefits. Liquid cooling has its' uses but on that budget I'd rather get an inexpensive air cooler and put money back into the hardware.

Its_Byte_00 · Apr 20, 2014

g-unit1111 :

Its_Byte_00 :

Agree there, but since the OP is in the mainland EU, links to British websites won't exactly be of use either.

Anyways, this is going to get you the best for your money. 2011 cpu's give you 40 lanes of pci express which means better multi gpu and the psu is also ready for it. the watercooler is a aio so all you do is screw the cans into it and then it into the case and your good.

Based on what logic? You're overpaying for the processor and motherboard for nothing gained back in terms of extra performance. The 4820K is not worth investing in when you could get the 4770K for less money while still retaining all the benefits. Liquid cooling has its' uses but on that budget I'd rather get an inexpensive air cooler and put money back into the hardware.

it absolutely is at 8$ less then the 4770K

the point is he can add another 770 and still have it running in x16 instead of x8 and x8.

g-unit1111 · Apr 21, 2014

Its_Byte_00 :

Not from what I've seen most stores here have the 4820K at a $80 - $100 markup over the 4770K. I would think Z87 would still be able to run dual 770s in x16. Plus the RAM costs for X79 are completely ridiculous - a 4 x 4GB set usually retails for around $199 and 4 x 8GB sets retail for around $279 - $329.

Its_Byte_00 · Apr 24, 2014

g-unit1111 :

are you kidding me? Ram is ram. I just pciked a kit that had 4 dimms so he could utlize quad channle. a lot of stores have them ddown to 4770k prices still. the z87 chipset is for haswell cpu's only. Im not sure if you know this or not but for every full speed card you need 16 pci lanes. Thus you would have 1 card at full speed and another at half. if your one of those people who think that a new gpu wont need x16 bandwith, your wrong. and you could just buy 2 2x4gb kits totaling up to 16gb anyway, as quad channle is a feture of the cpu not the ram.

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