Help! £800-£900 to spend, build me a PC please :D

[Rich1995]

Hey guys, looking to build my first ever system and want the best possible components, I have a system in mind and have researched prices on the various components. I have a budget of roughly £800-£900, the system will be used for primarily gaming mostly. Thanks guys I don't need any peripherals for the build, just the core components.

 

[X79]

The sad thing is that you made this a "discussion" thread and not a "solutions" thread; meaning you probably can't
pick someones answer as the solution - which is a big deal around here. Thus people won't be as inclined to answer your thread.
There's rewards for getting the solution, you see.

Anyhow...Got to help a fellow countryman out.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.90 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus Z87-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£106.64 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£69.50 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£79.86 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£259.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: BitFenix Shinobi ATX Mid Tower Case (£49.99 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 750W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£67.99 @ Dabs)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£12.50 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £882.35
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-20 17:30 GMT+0000)

Here you go.

- High-end GPU

- Great OC'able (OverClockable) CPU

- Sufficient and speedy RAM

- An SSD drive for much faster boot times and load times of both the system as well as game loading screens. It's a good SSD.

- Lots of storage in a quality HDD

- A (in my opinion) gorgeous case, that should be big enough to let you do all sorts of things

- A superb motherboard that allows for both SLI or CF (two or more GPUs in the same machine)

- A nice PSU with enough juice to let you insert another GPU later on, if you so chose.


Notes:

If you don't intend on OC'ing, do tell and I'll both remove the CPU cooler and get you a non-K version of the CPU.

OC'ing can be fun, you can learn a lot, yet you can also brick things. However there's many guides out there to avoid that.

You can save a few quid if you don't want to OC. Likewise you can get a slightly cheaper PSU potentially, if you know you won't

go for multi-GPU setups. What's your monitor resolution? 1920 x 1080? Assuming that's the case, you'll get very good performance

from this rig. Furthermore we can save a few quid on the motherboard as well, if you know you won't use SLI (one or more Nvidia

GPUs together). Adding another GPU can boost performance if you find it lacking; yet it's not without its drawbacks. Such setups

require more power, produce more heat, potentially make more noise and aren't supported in all games, as you'll rely on good

driver support. But it's cool and sometimes it's downright necessary when you wish to max out a game graphically. The common

wisdom dictates that it's better to get a single, better card, than several perhaps lesser cards; due to stability.

 

[bodeen2012]

intel nvidia
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2ErFx
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2ErFx/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2ErFx/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.90 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£86.33 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£63.86 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£70.09 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£239.90 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case (£65.53 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£45.00 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.98 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 - OEM (64-bit) (£81.50 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £898.08
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-20 17:42 GMT+0000)

amd build
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2ErW8
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2ErW8/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2ErW8/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£137.00 @ Ebuyer)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.90 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard (£74.37 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£63.86 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£70.09 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£240.04 @ Dabs)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case (£65.53 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£70.67 @ CCL Computers)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.98 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 - OEM (64-bit) (£81.50 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £880.94
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-20 17:51 GMT+0000)