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Itsjoshshepherd

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Good Morning all,

So, basically I'm looking at buying a half decent Gaming PC for around £400/500 and I've been looking at some online and wondered which was best. I'm not a hardcore gamer but would like to hopefully play games at 1080p with decent frame rate and decent settings.

Appreciate all the help you can offer me.

Cheers Josh!

PC 1) £410
Pc Specs:
CPU: AMD FX-6300 am3+ Six core 3.5ghz 14mb
HDD: Seagate SSHD 1TB 54000RPM 32mb HYBRID 8GB SSD
RAM: G.SKILL 8gb ddr3 (2x4gb)
Case: iTek Snake-G
Cooler Master G650M Modular 650W
Cooler: Arctic Ven FM1/ am3+ Freezer A30
LG DVD reader and writer
Motherboard: ASRock MB am3+ 970 Performance
GPU: GeForce GTX 750 Ti 4gb
OS: Windows 10 Home

PC 2) £425
System specs
Zalaman R1 case
Intel core i5 4440 @ stock clock
Hyper 212 evo cooler
Gigabyte H81M-S2H Motherboard
MSI GTX 970 Graphics Card
Corsair CX600 PSU
16gb DDR3 RAM
DVD RW
Drevo 60gb SSD
1TB SEAGATE HDD

PC3) £500
Case ZALMAN Z11 PLUS BLACK MID TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4770 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache
Motherboard ASUS® H81M-E: Micro-ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM) 12GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 760 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply CORSAIR 650W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Processor Cooling Super Quiet 22dBA Triple Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking DUAL-BAND WIRELESS 802.11N 450Mbps PCI-E CARD
USB Options MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable 1 x 2 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System Genuine Windows 10 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence for 8.1
DVD Recovery Media Windows 8.1 (64-bit) DVD with paper sleeve
Monitor Benq 24" EW2440L LED VA Monitor 1080p
Keyboard Razer BlackWidow Tournament Edition Chroma RGB Backlit
Mouse Razer DeathAdder Chroma

PC4) £500
Zoostorm StormForce Glacier Gaming PC i5-4690 16GB 2TB, 120GB GTX 960 DVDRW Win 10
 
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Darkbreeze
So yes, upgrading to a GTX 1070 at some point would GREATLY improve the performance of that machine. And if you want a solid power supply to go with it, that will be suitable for both those graphics cards AND have a very long lifespan that should last you through many builds and upgrades, this is probably the least expensive unit I would be willing to recommend. There are cheaper units to be sure, but that's exactly what you'd be getting too, a cheaper unit. If you can't or don't want to do something like this then I'd say stick with the Corsair CX unit until it fails, which will probably be in about a year or two, if it makes it that long depending on how long it's already been in use.


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Depending on what resolution you are planning to game at, you may not even need to do that. The GTX 970 is still quite capable for 1080p or lower gaming at high or max settings for most titles. Certainly at high presets for sure. You'd have to add a GTX 1070 to get any substantial gains over the card that already comes with that system.

If you were inclined to upgrade something, it should be the power supply. That Corsair CX600 certainly has enough capacity for the GTX 970, but the quality is somewhat lacking for a card of that caliber.
 
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Itsjoshshepherd

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I went for PC Number 2, £350.. good deal? What power supply would u suggest? If I upgraded that along with a 1070 would that improve it a lot?

I plan on playing at 1080p for now (looking at a Gaming Monitor with 1ms probably)? and then maybe in a year or 2 move to 4K
 
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So yes, upgrading to a GTX 1070 at some point would GREATLY improve the performance of that machine. And if you want a solid power supply to go with it, that will be suitable for both those graphics cards AND have a very long lifespan that should last you through many builds and upgrades, this is probably the least expensive unit I would be willing to recommend. There are cheaper units to be sure, but that's exactly what you'd be getting too, a cheaper unit. If you can't or don't want to do something like this then I'd say stick with the Corsair CX unit until it fails, which will probably be in about a year or two, if it makes it that long depending on how long it's already been in use.


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Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£76.42 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £76.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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