Need help in building a Gaming PC (500€)

[Alin Cristian]

Hello!

As my first post here, I wish to ask your opinions on building a PC that I will use mainly for gaming and I need your help, guys.

I've got an expense budget of very little over 500€ so I will have to be a little conservative. I'm also trying to avoid a bottleneck and if anything is out of order or you think that I'm missing something or you got a better suggestion you're free to make an entire new list, I'm attentive to any suggestion. I'm not dead-set on anything. Also, due to my bad past experiences I am trying to avoid overheating issues so take that into consideration please.

Now, I already got the case so it should be easier.
Aerocool Vs-9 is the name and so far it has proven it's worth and thus I wish to keep it.

I have sketched a build in my mind and hopefully you can tell me what you think and complete the list for me.

(Also, as an unrelated side note: I've got a new Alpenfohn Peter heatsink which did not fit on my old graphics card so it would be great if it would fit on my future card.)

Resolution: 1920x1080

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Case: mid-tower Aerocool Vs-9 [Got it]

Motherboard: A friend suggested a Gigabyte 627 with z77 and uefi, although I'm not quite sure which one it was. (Hah!)

Processor: i5-2500(k) - 4 cores 3.3 Ghz, Max 3.7 Ghz

Graphics Card: GTX 660

Memory: 8gb DDR3

Power Supply: Roughly 750W I'd imagine.

Thank you in advance!
More about : building gam

 

[Shadsy]

hello there, Will you overclock or do 2 graphics cards? if no a 650 W PSU for a GTX 660 will be just fine gigabyte recommends a 450W for a 660, but 650/750 W PSU can give nice head room for future updates down the road. and we can look for a board depending if you will be OCing.

 

[Alin Cristian]

hello there, Will you overclock or do 2 graphics cards? if no a 650 W PSU will be just fine and we can look for a board depending if you will be OCing.

Hello and thank you for replying.
Well, as you have noticed, this is supposed to be a budget build so the two card alone and a cross-fire/SLI motherboard alone would probably cost 500€. Now, I'm not really into overclocking and if you only gain 5-10 fps it's definetly not worth the hassle although I would if the gain is higher than a few FPS, but because of an unfortunate mishap with a GTX460 running insanely hot and locking up for apparent reason I am rather concerned about temperature and cooling figures too.

 

[Alin Cristian]

Hey!
Here's what I found online.

CPU: http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Core-i5-3570K-Quad-Core-Processor/dp/B007SZ0E1K/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1372500497&sr=1-1&keywords=i5

GPU: 1.http://www.amazon.com/PNY-GeForce-Graphics-Cards-VCGGTX660XPB/dp/B0096JZYZC/ref=sr_1_42?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1372502276&sr=1-42&keywords=gtx+660
2.http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GeForce-Graphics-N660-2GD5-OC/dp/B009K1PY4W/ref=sr_1_45?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1372502276&sr=1-45&keywords=gtx+660
3.http://www.amazon.com/NVIDIA-GeForce-DisplayPort-PCI-Express-ZT-60901-10M/dp/B009AEL3JO/ref=sr_1_49?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1372502324&sr=1-49&keywords=gtx+660

Motherboard: 1.http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-1155-Intel-Motherboard-GA-H77N-WIFI/dp/B009JDTWVC/ref=sr_1_25?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1372508307&sr=1-25&keywords=z77
2.http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-1155-Intel-Motherboard-GA-Z77-HD3/dp/B00APZXYGM/ref=sr_1_34?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1372509176&sr=1-34&keywords=z77

Ram: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-240-Pin-Platforms-CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9/dp/B004CRSM4I/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1372509821&sr=1-1&keywords=Corsair+Vengeance+8gb

PSU: http://www.amazon.com/XFX-PRO650W-Bronze-Energy-Certified/dp/B0045L5LGI/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1372508610&sr=1-1&keywords=XFX+Core+Edition+PRO650W

So, What do you think? Which are my best options?

 

[Shadsy]

I say nice build you made there, to me from the GPUs the Zotac looks neat I would take that personally you're doing a Mini PC then?

 

[Alin Cristian]

Heh, thanks. It took a while to make up my mind. *blushes*

But no, I dropped the idea of a mini-PC and thus I'm going for an ATX board.
Now, unfortunately due to some shipping issues I cannot buy from the US site so I had to look for parts in amazon.uk.co store which also means that everything will be about 25% more expensive but oh well.
So far I've improved the list based on prices and available parts and well, yeah. Here comes nothing.

CPU: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007RUZKK6/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE (same)

GPU: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00A11YWW0/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Motherboard: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009OUXPHM/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

RAM: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004CRSM4I/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE (same)

Power Supply: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008RJZR40/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

In total that would be £518.53 which would translate in roughly <insert your country's currency in here> and it's quite a bit more expensive than I would have wanted. Should I raise some more funds and smack that Checkout button or should I rather cut on the expenses a tad?

 

[Shadsy]

GTX 660 is a cool card, there is a new slightly better version of it GTX 760 and it should only 50 GBP more expensive. just saying but love your choice of parts.
I think 760 will be more worth it, because of Dx11.1 / Shadowplay (game recording directly of your video card) and it has a lot of improvements.