£1000 1440p Set up (Need parts help)

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Hello, im building my a friend a rig and need help choosing parts. Ive tried many times and it comes up just a little more than expected (~£1020).
So i would just like to see if anyone here can help out.
It NEEDS to include a 1440p monitor (A basic one would be fine) and a 390x (around £300 from OcUK).
Apart from that im open to suggestions. A skylake CPU would be nice too if possible.

Also just want to point out that Scan is excluded from the UK PCPartPicker (idk why) so thats another option if someone has the time to look. Thanks again.
 
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I don't want this to devolve into an AMD Vs. NVIDIA thread - it's been argued to death. But at that price point you have to have a decent GPU for 1440P - it can't be done when you consider that any decent monitor will run you £400. So if the monitor has to be included in the budget, that budget is not sufficient enough to provide a decent setup.
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Ebuyer is selling a 4k monitor for less than the price of a 1440P monitor at the moment, that's definitely worth a look:

http://www.ebuyer.com/700236-acer-k242hqk-24-ips-4k-uhd-monitor-um-uv6ee-001

This build should give great gaming performance at 1440P and reasonable performance at 4k:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£155.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£53.31 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£34.49 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£49.93 @ Dabs)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£32.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 390X 8GB Double Dissipation Video Card (£319.96 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid Tower Case (£37.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX TS 650W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£58.26 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £741.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-06 19:45 GMT+0000
 
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Alternatively if you can do with 240GB and a cheaper case you could get an R9 Fury which would give better performance at 4k. You'd still be looking at Mid-High settings on most games rather than ultra though, 4k is pretty damn demanding.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£155.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£53.31 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£34.49 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£49.93 @ Dabs)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury 4GB Tri-X Video Card (£416.40 @ Aria PC)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case (£29.64 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£55.56 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £794.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-06 19:53 GMT+0000

EDIT: Typo
 
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Here's what I would suggest:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£189.59 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC12DX_BK 68.5 CFM CPU Cooler (£44.97 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£118.98 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£44.99 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£58.74 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.08 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card (£405.92 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£54.72 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£87.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1044.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-06 23:36 GMT+0000
 
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Need a monitor included. Also a 390x (imo) is much better value and especially at 1440p
 
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I don't want this to devolve into an AMD Vs. NVIDIA thread - it's been argued to death. But at that price point you have to have a decent GPU for 1440P - it can't be done when you consider that any decent monitor will run you £400. So if the monitor has to be included in the budget, that budget is not sufficient enough to provide a decent setup.
 
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There's a 4k monitor above for £200, why not just go for that?

A 390x will give you reasonable performance at 4k. you won't be playing the newest games at ultra settings but it will do the job for a bit. Or you could just run the monitor at 1440P. May not look as good as it would on a 1440P monitor but its a lot cheaper.
 
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Because it's a rather low end, poor quality AOC monitor which I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole. Any decent 1440P monitor and you're going to pay.
 
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What makes you say it is poor quality? I can't find any reviews on it so I'm just going on the assumption that the specs look fine and it's a major brand so generally is is bound to be of reasonable quality.

Yes it is a low price but that doesn't always mean low quality.
 
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AOC isn't a brand that's associated with high quality given the past reviews that I've seen. I've seen a lot of reviews of dead pixels and no customer support with AOC.
 
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Fair enough but it is an Acer..
 
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