£500 budget gaming build including GTX 970

DeoMako · Dec 30, 2014

This will be my first gaming build, love the idea of building my own PC can't wait to start ordering however I'm not a great decision maker and keep wobbling between different combinations of parts. Before my confidence is high enough to start experimenting I would like to get some advice on my first attempt from you guys if that's alright.

I'm trying to get a powerful gaming PC as much under £600 as possible and have come up with the following, I'll savage the hard drive, ram (4 x 2 GB) from my current PC.

Also, I do sometimes stream video to my projector would I encounter potential problems with this build?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£149.15 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£61.46 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (£269.96 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Fractal Design Core 2300 ATX Full Tower Case (£37.99 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £565.55
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-30 15:50 GMT+0000

Jeff Baffalo · Dec 30, 2014

Build seems good for your budget.

zeyuanfu · Dec 30, 2014

The build's good, but I would actually do something like this, which gives you an SSD:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£130.94 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£35.03 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£90.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card (£269.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£14.99 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £587.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-30 16:11 GMT+0000

game junky · Dec 30, 2014

Good budget build - I like ASUS's ACX2.0 version of the 970 but that's just preferential. The video you selected has DVI, Displayport & HDMI ports so if your projector uses HDMI you're good to go, but if it uses a VGA port (which I bet it does), you will need to get a VGA to DVI adapter which you can find either locally (Best Buy, Radioshack, etc) or online (Monoprice, amazon, etc.). Only tweaks I might make would be to upgrade your power supply (I like Corsair or Seasonic but that is just personal preference based on reliability of the ones I have bought)

DeoMako · Dec 30, 2014

My projector does use HDMI and I was thinking about a storage upgrade in the near future.

I'll have a close look at your builds in a bit thanks guys, I was just about to post another build I guess this could go on forever I have to make a decision at some point I won't post anymore after this one

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£130.94 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI H97 Guard-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£76.34 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card (£269.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H21 ATX Mid Tower Case (£23.05 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£51.46 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £551.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-30 16:25 GMT+0000

game junky · Dec 30, 2014

Easy enough - I would stick with your original CPU/Mobo combo but it's your pounds.

zeyuanfu · Dec 31, 2014

I would suggest you switch to the PSU in my build as it's cheaper and better. CX units use bad caps.

DeoMako · Dec 31, 2014

Thanks you all for your advice I have settled and ordered the following, thanks for the heads up zeyuanfu, a quick Google search came up with tons of complaints! Fingers crossed I get a card with low coil whine, I'll add photos and review once completed.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£149.94 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£69.56 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (£293.96 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case (£39.48 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£49.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £602.08
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-31 15:17 GMT+0000

zeyuanfu · Dec 31, 2014

No problem, glad you made the right choice

Hope the build goes well!

P.S. you could start a new discussion thread about your build if you would like.

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