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September 30, 2014 11:48:46 PM

Please can someone build me a gaming Pl that's in my budget. It has to have a monitor. I found the one I want for £99 on eBay so if you can't I'll buy that. I'd like it to play next gen games. I don't need the build until Christmas so prices of good gpu and cpu would have dropped. I'd like at least 8gb ram.

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a c 283 4 Gaming
September 30, 2014 11:55:51 PM

Without a monitor then -

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£154.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£72.56 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£66.89 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£129.98 @ Novatech)
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 230T Orange ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.50 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.35 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.74 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£68.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £644.34
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a c 283 4 Gaming
September 30, 2014 11:59:12 PM

The R9 280 price is missing and the KB bundle
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a b 4 Gaming
October 1, 2014 12:03:39 AM

Stupid UK PCPartpicker. Heh. No offense to the UK.
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October 1, 2014 12:03:43 AM

With Windows 7 please, not 8. Thanks guys
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a b 4 Gaming
October 1, 2014 1:18:27 AM

Josh Ford said:
With Windows 7 please, not 8. Thanks guys


Use windows 8

Its simple to add a start button and never see the metro screen . I use classic shell
Its faster , has a bunch of improvements , a longer support life
and the license lets you re-use it on two more computers . OEM 7 is locked to the first mb
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October 1, 2014 3:34:09 AM

I've ported many OEM W7 systems off their original motherboard and they fail activation at the automatic stage but it goes through successfully on the telephone line.

No offence taken this side of the pond. Maybe the UK PartPicker's webserver uses BASH. :D 
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a b 4 Gaming
October 1, 2014 9:33:00 AM

Nah, it was my own fault. Obviously I had parts included in the build on the US PCPartpicker that either probably were not available or not compatible across the pond and so while they were showing in the build still, the price for a couple of items was stricken which erroneously made it look compatible with the budget until i7 pointed out that it wasn't right. Thanks for that by the way.

And on the Windows issue, I've been hearing all along how Windows 8 doesn't have that problem but I've had perhaps 7-10 customer rigs that were clients who like to change out hardware often, plus my own, and on all of them when the motherboards were changed, they had to be reactivated by phone. So, although people keep telling me Windows 8 doesn't tie the OS to the hardware, I know for a fact that it does. There can be no argument against this as I've repeatedly seen it with my own eyes as well as then having gone and read it in the Microshaft documentation. So I think this is a misconception that 8 is not tied to the hardware anymore. Their license agreement specifically states that it is. Anyhow, not to create a hoopla, but just wanted it to not come as a surprise later. Of course, no telling about differences in US vs versions for other regions. We all know laws and licensing varies between countries.
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a b 4 Gaming
October 1, 2014 11:42:10 AM

Saga Lout said:
I've ported many OEM W7 systems off their original motherboard and they fail activation at the automatic stage but it goes through successfully on the telephone line.

No offence taken this side of the pond. Maybe the UK PartPicker's webserver uses BASH. :D 


MS applies the licensing rules differently in different countries . I believe they are much more relaxed in the US than out of it .

As for Win 8 . Yes , change the mb and it will reactivate . You have 3 activations on the "home user license "

I still do not see a reason to use windows 7
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October 1, 2014 11:47:14 AM

Outlander_04 said:
Josh Ford said:
With Windows 7 please, not 8. Thanks guys


Use windows 8

Its simple to add a start button and never see the metro screen . I use classic shell
Its faster , has a bunch of improvements , a longer support life
and the license lets you re-use it on two more computers . OEM 7 is locked to the first mb


Outlander_04 said:
Saga Lout said:
I've ported many OEM W7 systems off their original motherboard and they fail activation at the automatic stage but it goes through successfully on the telephone line.

No offence taken this side of the pond. Maybe the UK PartPicker's webserver uses BASH. :D 


MS applies the licensing rules differently in different countries . I believe they are much more relaxed in the US than out of it .

As for Win 8 . Yes , change the mb and it will reactivate . You have 3 activations on the "home user license "

I still do not see a reason to use windows 7

Windows 7 is something I've gotten used to over the years. It's personal preference.
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a b 4 Gaming
October 1, 2014 12:04:55 PM

Josh Ford said:
Outlander_04 said:
Josh Ford said:
With Windows 7 please, not 8. Thanks guys


Use windows 8

Its simple to add a start button and never see the metro screen . I use classic shell
Its faster , has a bunch of improvements , a longer support life
and the license lets you re-use it on two more computers . OEM 7 is locked to the first mb


Outlander_04 said:
Saga Lout said:
I've ported many OEM W7 systems off their original motherboard and they fail activation at the automatic stage but it goes through successfully on the telephone line.

No offence taken this side of the pond. Maybe the UK PartPicker's webserver uses BASH. :D 


MS applies the licensing rules differently in different countries . I believe they are much more relaxed in the US than out of it .

As for Win 8 . Yes , change the mb and it will reactivate . You have 3 activations on the "home user license "

I still do not see a reason to use windows 7

Windows 7 is something I've gotten used to over the years. It's personal preference.


I felt the same way about Win 98 , and then XP .
Never liked Vista , 7 was better
8 you can customize with Classic Shell to look and behave like any of them
and presumably the upgrade to Windows 10 will be very very cheap

In the end change happens whether we like it or not . XP is gone . 7 will be gone before 8 .
Mainstream support for 7 stops Jan 12 , 2015 .
There will still be security patches for 5 more years after that
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October 1, 2014 1:17:21 PM

Outlander_04 said:
Josh Ford said:
Outlander_04 said:
Josh Ford said:
With Windows 7 please, not 8. Thanks guys


Use windows 8

Its simple to add a start button and never see the metro screen . I use classic shell
Its faster , has a bunch of improvements , a longer support life
and the license lets you re-use it on two more computers . OEM 7 is locked to the first mb


Outlander_04 said:
Saga Lout said:
I've ported many OEM W7 systems off their original motherboard and they fail activation at the automatic stage but it goes through successfully on the telephone line.

No offence taken this side of the pond. Maybe the UK PartPicker's webserver uses BASH. :D 


MS applies the licensing rules differently in different countries . I believe they are much more relaxed in the US than out of it .

As for Win 8 . Yes , change the mb and it will reactivate . You have 3 activations on the "home user license "

I still do not see a reason to use windows 7

Windows 7 is something I've gotten used to over the years. It's personal preference.


I felt the same way about Win 98 , and then XP .
Never liked Vista , 7 was better
8 you can customize with Classic Shell to look and behave like any of them
and presumably the upgrade to Windows 10 will be very very cheap

In the end change happens whether we like it or not . XP is gone . 7 will be gone before 8 .
Mainstream support for 7 stops Jan 12 , 2015 .
There will still be security patches for 5 more years after that

So I should get Windows 8? And you're saying you can make it look like Windows 7?
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a b 4 Gaming
October 1, 2014 1:35:03 PM

Classic Shell
http://www.classicshell.net/
Totally free , and once you install it you get a start button and you can set it to behave just like 98, XP, 7
There are differences like the start button icon so its not identical , but it behaves the exact same way .
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