Best PC build for £700?

PensivePuffin · May 10, 2015

Hi everyone. I'm a complete novice, but I really want to get into PC building and gaming. I'm a big fan of story driven RPGs, so a system that can play Dragon Age Inquisition and games of that ilk at max settings would be perfect (well not necessarily max settings, but at least 1080p).

Here's the build I managed to come up with:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/NvGHjX

But really I have no idea what I'm doing, and would appreciate some feedback

TheCPT · May 10, 2015

Hi, PensivePuffin!

You have a very good core build there, with only a couple of slight downsides, but it's nothing big at all, just need to even out the build quality.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£143.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus Z97 PRO GAMER ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£106.73 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Kingston Fury Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£48.89 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£69.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card (£163.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.87 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: be quiet! 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£59.94 @ Aria PC)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£25.98 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £679.37
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-10 23:34 BST+0100
This build is NOT perfect and can still be improved up in, but it hopefully should give you and others a rough guideline on what need to be worked on.
A cpu upgrade to something such as the hyper 212 would be a valid future upgrade.

-TheCPT

PensivePuffin · May 10, 2015

TheCPT :

Hi, PensivePuffin!

You have a very good core build there, with only a couple of slight downsides, but it's nothing big at all, just need to even out the build quality.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£143.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus Z97 PRO GAMER ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£106.73 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Kingston Fury Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£48.89 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£69.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card (£163.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.87 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: be quiet! 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£59.94 @ Aria PC)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£25.98 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £679.37
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-10 23:34 BST+0100
This build is NOT perfect and can still be improved up in, but it hopefully should give you and others a rough guideline on what need to be worked on.
A cpu upgrade to something such as the hyper 212 would be a valid future upgrade.

-TheCPT

Thank you very much for responding. If you don't mind my asking, what is it that makes this motherboard an improvement? (Still not quite savvy enough to work it out for myself

)

TheCPT · May 10, 2015

It's not an improvement, it's just that the other board was much more than you needed, hence the bigger price tag, and the psu is just a better model. Sorry but I gotta wake up early tomorrow, i'll check on this thread first thing! Bye!

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