serious need of upgrade pc. budget of £1,000.

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im currently running a amd fx 4170 at 4.2GHz with 12 gb of 1600Mhz ram and a gtx 760 2GB Oc gaming edition. and have finally taken the step to upgrade but am having issues whether i should wait till gpu prices drop or but a pre built pc from some company like FTS gaming. looking to play all modern games at 1080p with my currently monitor. have noticed fts sell a built pc with a 1080 8gb GPU but am thinking its a bit overkill for only gaming at 1080p. thanks
 
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I see, you could probably find a decent prebuilt with a 8th gen i5/i7 and good dedicated GPU. If you can reuse your CPU cooler, PSU, SSD, HDD & Case then I'd consider something like this.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor (£308.95 @ AWD-IT)
Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£98.83 @ More Computers)
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£129.99 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: Palit - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GameRock Video Card (£428.98 @ Novatech)
Total: £966.75
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-02-23 22:50 GMT+0000

Also I wouldn't be too concerned with getting "overkill" parts as your next upgrade could be your monitor.
 
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that does look like a beast of a pc build there! gpu suck so badly at the moment! im currently only gaming at 1080p since i have a lg ips monitor. so no 4k :( but do you think the gpu will be overkill? the pc prebuilt specs i found originally were,

Motherboard
Gigabyte Z370-HD3
CPU Model
Intel Core I5 8400
Memory
8gb Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000mhz Performance Ram
120gb SSD
Graphics Card
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 8gb
Power Supply
EVGA 600w Quiet 80 Plus Bronze Certified Semi Modular Power Supply
for £1,068
 
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prices of monitors are my only worry as with the pc im just sent you i was looking at upgrading the ram for the time being and since its so expensive it will push the monitor purchase a few months off.
 
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That prebuilt isn't bad and would game well at 1080P however there are parts in it that you already have which drives up the cost, plus I don't know if your CPU cooler will fit into that prebuilt case. Also with RAM even if you buy the same kit that's in the build there's no guarantee it will even work as RAM is finicky as far as compatibility.
 
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For the monitor, as long as your games support 21:9, I'd highly recommend a 2560x1080P/75hz/34" as it would pair well with a 1060 6gb or better. I have the 29" version (couldn't afford the 34" version at the time :( ) and I absolutely love it, I don't think I can go back to a 16:9 after gaming on a ultrawide.
 
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was thinking should i save money and drop to maybe a 1060 6 gb or stay with the 1080. i wouldnt mind the extra storage as one ssd will hold the OS and another could be for certain games. hmm good point since ive had one ram stick fail on me last year. plus the prices are incredible. may try to get a deal on 16gb of ram instead.
 
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