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September 8, 2014 8:05:11 PM

Hey all,

New on the forum so apologies if this is in the wrong section!

I know you all here must've heard this a gazillion times, but I am wanting to build a Gaming PC on a budget of £700 (£800 max). I want something (if possible) that can play most current games on ultra (single screen) and high across eyefinity (triple screens), and be semi future-proofed, but upgradable when the time comes. The PC will mainly be for gaming, but also for video editing, rendering, and possibly live streaming.

My current PC is 6GB Ram, i5 650 @ 3.20ghz and a 2GB 7850. It's a prebuilt PC from Asus with some minor upgrading from me (PSU and Graphics card). I'm wanting to keep that PC the way it is and build a much more powerful new rig. My current PC uses eyefinity (triple screens) on racing games, but unfortunately it doesn't perform particuraly well, so I am wanting the new PC possible of eyefinity too. I have iRacing Simulator running at around 60FPS on triple screens, with the majority of graphics turned off, or on low.

I tried to use partpicker.com, but I am really struggling to stay within my budget on it, as I unfortunately don't have a lot of knowledge on this stuff at the moment, on what's best for the price.

I live in the UK so any parts must be available over here.

This is my first build, but I feel I have enough knowledge from when I was upgrading my old PC to build one from scratch.

Also, I've been reading up and from what I've seen the i7 4790k and Asus Z97-A seem to be what's came up a few times.

Thanks in advance, Sam.

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a b 4 Gaming
September 8, 2014 8:11:09 PM

This can pretty much go High on every game available.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£156.00 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120V 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£30.94 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 EXTREME4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£103.35 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£56.83 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.50 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Double Dissipation Video Card (£194.74 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£43.19 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Corsair 760W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£134.75 @ Aria PC)
Total: £757.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-09 04:10 BST+0100
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September 8, 2014 8:17:17 PM

Is that PC pretty upgradable if I decided to over the next few years?
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September 8, 2014 8:18:11 PM

okcnaline said:
This can pretty much go High on every game available.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£156.00 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120V 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£30.94 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 EXTREME4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£103.35 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£56.83 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.50 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Double Dissipation Video Card (£194.74 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£43.19 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Corsair 760W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£134.75 @ Aria PC)
Total: £757.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-09 04:10 BST+0100


Is that PC pretty upgradable if I decided to over the next few years?

Edit: oops made a mistake when trying to reply so it did it twice.
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a b 4 Gaming
September 8, 2014 8:18:12 PM

Yep.
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September 8, 2014 8:21:43 PM

okcnaline said:
Yep.


Sorry to ask lots of questions, but how about for rendering etc? And would it be a big upgrade from my current system?

Current system: Straight from Manufacturer listing with my upgrades added

Processor Intel® Core™ i5-650 Processor
- 3.2 GHz
- 2.5 GT/s DMI
- 4 MB Smart Cache
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM - 6 GB RAM
- DDR3
- 8 GB maximum RAM capacity
Graphics card - Asus 2GB 7850
Hard drive 1 TB SATA hard drive 5400 rpm
Extension card slot 1 x PCI Express® 2.0 x16 slot
2 x PCI Express® 2.0 x1 slots
1 x PCI™ 2.3 slot (5 V)
Sound 7.1 channel on-board sound card
Power Supply Unit: 850w
Motherboard is unknown...
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a b 4 Gaming
September 8, 2014 8:27:07 PM

1) It'll be quite an upgrade. Not only is it more RAM and improved GPU, but a newer GPU with OC, and a next-get ready motherboard.
2) What is your PSU model that you currently have? This could be an upgrade if it was anything lower than a +80 Gold rating.
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September 8, 2014 8:33:33 PM

okcnaline said:
1) It'll be quite an upgrade. Not only is it more RAM and improved GPU, but a newer GPU with OC, and a next-get ready motherboard.
2) What is your PSU model that you currently have? This could be an upgrade if it was anything lower than a +80 Gold rating.


Ah my mistake it's 650w. The box is currently away but I have pictures of it saved. I needed one urgently as my previous one couldn't cope with the graphics card I bought, so I got one from PCWorld (bad I idea I know). It seems to be an unknown make called "High Power Plus". Can't see anything on the box apart from it says energy efficiency 80%+. Is that what you're looking for?
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a b 4 Gaming
September 8, 2014 8:34:50 PM

Sort of. Since it's an unknown, this would be THE difference. More efficiency, durability, and higher voltage.
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September 8, 2014 8:39:44 PM

okcnaline said:
Sort of. Since it's an unknown, this would be THE difference. More efficiency, durability, and higher voltage.


I'm sorry, I feel so stupid not knowing much about this stuff. Since I haven't done anything with building PCs before I don't know that much about the hardware.

So if this PC will be good for gaming, editing and rendering etc. I'll need to get myself together and start ordering parts. I could possibly stretch to mid £800s so if there is anything you think would be worth the upgrade then I'd consider it.

My main aim is a good future-proof PC which will be good from the off, but upgradable over the years.

Thanks, Sam.
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a b 4 Gaming
September 8, 2014 8:59:25 PM

1) Don't worry about it.
2) Yes. I can probably upgrade the CPU to a GTX 770.
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