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Jimmic123

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I'm beginning to get annoyed, I've been told so many times that I should get the new GTX 970 and an i5-4690K and 16GB of ram with water cooling and all the bells and whistles. Do I need it? I'm gonna be starting small anyway, I want a computer that will handle mine craft feed the beast (yogs cast complete pack), chivalry, skyrim, WoW and similar types of games with no problem at all. If I'm correct I can upgrade my cpu and gpu later if I build it myself (which I intend on doing) so I want to build up to pc gaming only. I have a ps4 to handle all of my new AAA games such as ac unity and farcry 4 and call of duty AW. Someone please give me a build that will handle all of the pre-mentioned games (WoW etc) with no problem at all so I don't have to spend £1000 on a part time 17 year olds pay check? Here's my build recommended by a man at pc world

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/pfyWjX Please help, I'm totally new to this so all the explanations possible please. Thanks so much to anybody who helps
 
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that build is overkill for what you seem to want to do but yeah it will be good for a gaming build.
But it does include some budget peices so a more even build that is not to much over budget will be
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.50 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£73.19 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£104.99 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£108.88 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£54.95 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda ES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£48.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (£274.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair SPEC-03 Red ATX Mid Tower Case (£45.81 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair 760W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£118.00 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£71.60 @ Amazon UK)
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-AC68 802.11a/b/g/n/ac PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£70.42 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case Fan: Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 37.9 CFM 120mm Fans (£19.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan (£5.32 @ CCL Computers)
Keyboard: Aula SHIHUNZAN Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Laser Mouse (£24.28 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1188.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-23 06:55 GMT+0000

Saddly it is £118.90 pounds over budget but that is because of the better PSU, the expantion card for wireless instead USB adapter and Windows 8.1 (64-bit) instead of Windows 7 retail which will be going off of new feature support soon so it will not get the newer APIs with DirectX 12 like Windows 8.1 will and if you are willing to wait Windows 10 will make a even better choice being even closer to Windows 7's interface than Windows 8.1 is.

The differnet PSU is for a higher quaility and Fully modular PSU instead of a lower quality but cheaper non modular power supply, The Wireless expantion card will get a much better signal for wireless than the adapter would mainly becuase of the 3 antennas on its base and the Windows 8.1 operating system as stated above is for future features.

In that please save up to be able to afford the over budget PC.

Now it is a overkill PC but will get the job done for years to come.
 
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Jimmic123

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Thank you but I don't think you understood my point, for the games that I want to play right now ( skyrim, mine craft, WoW, dayZ, counter strike) do I need such a computer or can I dumb it down and upgrade it all when I have more money? I'd like to spend as less as possible without going to 'full tight budget' mode. The price isn't really a massive problem but the parts would take me longer to buy. I don't have the £1000, in saving up and would rather not spend that much. Like I said before, thanks a lot I will keep that for upgrades but do I need all of that to play the less demanding games I mentioned in ultra?
 
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