£1000 / $1600 Gaming PC

[Rosza]

Approximate Purchase Date: Mid April

Budget Range: £1000 / $1600

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, preferably I would LOVE to run WoW at a stable 60 FPS, and some other games at a relatively good speed. SWToR and WoW are the sort of games I would be playing.

Parts Not Required: Keyboard / Mouse / Speakers

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Any UK Website

Country: England

Parts Preferences: No certain specification for parts

Overclocking: Maybe - Only if it will really make a difference

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Monitor Resolution: Any resolution that would make the computer run efficiently

Additional Comments: I'd like it to be relatively quiet but if its not its okay

Thanks

Rosza

 

[Silvune]

Some good sites to use include Aria, Amazon, CCLonline, Dabs, Ebuyer, Microdirect, QuietPC and Scan.

Intel i5-2500K (£160 from Amazon)
http://skinflint.co.uk/580328

Asus P8Z68-V LX (£75)
http://skinflint.co.uk/668812
Or
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 (£85 from Scan)
http://skinflint.co.uk/640260
Or
Asus P8Z68-V Gen3 (£120 from Amazon)
http://skinflint.co.uk/685157
Choose one of the second two if you want a board that can CF/SLI.

Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz CAS9 1.5V ML8GX3M2A1600C9B (£40 on Scan)
http://skinflint.co.uk/652384

PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 PCS+ (£284 from ebuyer)
http://skinflint.co.uk/751978

Xigmatek Midgard II £60
http://skinflint.co.uk/698904
Or anything else you can find which you like.
Antec Solo II and Fractal Design R3 are popular choices for quiet cases.
If you don't want to CF/SLI then you could get a microATX case as long as you choose a microATX motherboard.

XFX Pro 550W Core Edition (£50 from Amazon)
http://skinflint.co.uk/624026
Or
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition (£70 on Scan)
http://skinflint.co.uk/576786

Thermalright HR-02 Macho £40
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/thermalright-hr-02-macho-cpu-cooler-with-140mm-silent-fan-for-775-1155-1156-1366-amd-am2-am3

Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM ST500DM002 (£60 from Amazon)
http://skinflint.co.uk/659740

Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium SP1 OEM £70
http://skinflint.co.uk/634022

Total: £840-905
I don't know the monitor market well enough to make a suggestion unfortunately.

 

[Rosza]

Sounds good - would this build run relatively fast and would i7 make much of a difference to the performance ?

 

[Silvune]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7870-review-benchmark,3148-16.html
TH have reviewed the 7870 and show it achieving well over 60FPS in WOW at 1920x1080.

There are very few games where there is any significant benefit from buying an i7 over the i5-2500K. So I think the answer is no.

 

[serialkiller]

hello op

for your budget

http://pcpartpicker.com/uk/p/6bBg

and cpu cooler

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/coolermaster-hyper-tx3-evo-cpu-cooler-s1366-1156-1155-775-fm1-am3plus-am3-am2


i basically get you a build which can be upgraded like a better cpu i.e. ivebridge and can crossfire hd 7870 as wells you can oc by the asrock mobo which is bang for buck and also fitted a ssd which will increase your boot times and programs like faster opening of browsers and loading timings of games but in your budget i could fit only a 64 gb ssd but its wort it.

also i suggested a 21.5 " 1080 led monitor which has speakers.

happy to help