Gaming Build £600 - 800

folem001 · Dec 29, 2016

Approximate Purchase Date: ASAP / tomorrow

Budget Range: 600-800

System Usage from Most to Least Important: gaming, steam streaming, photoshop, many tabs browsing in chrome

Are you buying a monitor: No

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Any - prefereably UK based, but any is fine for rough guide price

Location: London, UK

Overclocking: Maybe - not at first

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe - not at first

Purchasing new monitor in next 6 months

Additional Comments: Will be using Steam Streaming to my low spec laptop. Future ability to upgrade preferable

Parts I think will achieve what I need (without knowing fully what I am talking about): https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/cjZWm8

Thanks in advance for any help

elbert · Dec 29, 2016

This is a i7 skylake xeon build. Cant say for sure you can overclocking this but the motherboard was capable 6 months ago.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£244.56 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty E3V5 Performance Gaming/OC ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£117.62 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£85.98 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.78 @ Misco UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card (£229.94 @ Ebuyer)
Case: BitFenix Nova ATX Mid Tower Case (£23.04 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£61.92 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £808.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-29 17:37 GMT+0000

sadams04 · Dec 29, 2016

Good build there by elbert... You won't be overclocking on that setup or the one below.

CPU - The Xeon is fine, however the i7-6700 boasts a higher base and turbo clock speeds for less overall costs. CPU is higher, but a matching MB is cheaper.
MB - B150 (or H110 / H170) to match the 6700. Look toward a board with four memory slots. Two now and two for a future upgrade. All these chipsets are limited to DDR4-2133 modules.
SSD - Added one. Puts you a bit over budget, but it is well worth it. Remove this if you can't stretch the budget.
PSU - Max power draw with a non-overclocked i7 and mid-level GPU puts your power consumption below 300w. The Seaconic elbert recommended is a good unit (Tier 2), and has plenty of power. Also consider the Super Flower below. Also a Tier 2 unit, but Gold rated. Both would be perfectly fine. Light reading => www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£276.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£63.54 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£83.71 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: SK hynix SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£64.98 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.78 @ Misco UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card (£229.94 @ Ebuyer)
Case: BitFenix Neos Black/Blue ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Power Supply: Super Flower Golden Green HX 450W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£45.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Total: £841.89

elbert · Dec 29, 2016

Actually the base clock is the same on the e3 1230 v5. The 1230 has a boost clock of 3.8Ghz. The ASRock e3v5 has bclk overclock to 125 thus memory clock can be higher.
http://ark.intel.com/products/88182/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1230-v5-8M-Cache-3_40-GHz

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Here is tomshardware using it in a system build.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/q1-2016-system-builder-marathon-1232-dollar-prosumer-pc,review-33512.html

spat55 · Dec 29, 2016

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£179.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus H110M-K Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£47.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: ADATA XPG Z1 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£69.84 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: OCZ TRION 150 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£39.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Toshiba 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Mini ITX OC Video Card (£359.96 @ Ebuyer)
Case: BitFenix Nova ATX Mid Tower Case (£23.04 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£65.50 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £822.25
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-29 20:14 GMT+0000

IMO not as good sadam' build but I wanted to show you for the money that you could get a GTX 1070 if you wanted.

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