Best Gaming PC £600-£700?

[jaffar91]

Hey Guys,

My brother is lookin to buy a new PC when he gets his first few pay cheques from his first job, ive had a look online but im not very tech savvy, hes thinking 600-700 quid.

Any1 recently got a new comp or lookin to get 1?

To give you an example of his games he want to play - CounterStrike global offensive
Guild wars 2
Battlefield 4

cheers guys!

 

[JoeDunn]

what dose he have right now if any thing at all? tower, monitor mouse and keyboard? this will throw his budget off quite a bit i has nothing to start with

 

[jaffar91]

sorry bud, just a standard 400 quid job thats about 5 years old now, with a old tv monitor as his screen. so probably will have to start a fresh xD mouse and keyboard i can sort out myself

 

[JoeDunn]

1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£12 Saving** £277.98
1 x Asus Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9290X-DC2-4GD5) £227.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £54.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £49.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £41.99
1 x Antec VSP5000 Silenced Tower Case - Black £39.95
1 x Alpenfohn Ben Nevis CPU Cooler - 120mm £19.99


Total : £712.84 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

sorry all my old links are dead but the price is what my friend paid 2 month ago thats what he went with hasn't had a single problem and will run the likes of guild wars and battle field no problem on high settings

 

[grahamb]

Total(Inc VAT)​

£767.7
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X	£22.50		LN60149 In Stock	Sharkoon VG4-V Black Mid Tower Chassis with 2x 120mm Fans, Black Interior & USB 3.0	Scansure	£22.50	£27.00	Remove
X	£32.55		LN61965 In Stock	Cooler Master Seidon 120V Version 2.0 Water Cooling Kit Quiet with Compact 120mm PWM Radiator for Intel & AMD CPU's	Scansure	£32.55	£39.06	Remove
X	£88.97		LN62617 In Stock	ASRock 990FX Killer AMD AM3+, DDR3, PCI-E 2.0, Sata 6GBs, ATX Motherboard	Scansure	£88.97	£106.76	Remove

total £767.78​

 

[jaffar91]

thanks alot for this guys, are we talking a self-build?

 

[grahamb]

yes were talking a self-build has it way cheaper to do it yourself then have someone do it for you and then atleast u no whats in it

 

[Skyline]

thanks alot for this guys, are we talking a self-build?

Can you build one yourself?

If so, then yes. As above, you know exactly what's in it, and it's way cheaper.

Building a PC is easier than it seems too, give it a go if you don't know how!

 

[Razarus]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-I7-...948?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20d90286e4

Something like that seems cheap and would do the job.
I think lol
I'm not tech savy either though.

 

[JoeDunn]

thanks alot for this guys, are we talking a self-build?

its actually quite simple these days i built my first own for the first time a few years ago. the only thing i had to look up was for the case L.E.D's and power/reset buttons positions on the motherboard.

its well worth trying maybe not with you brothers new stuff but i would say when ur bro gets his new one ask him if u can pull his old one apart then have a go putting it back together. you will save your self loads on any upgrades with having to take it to some one. my old RAM died on me one time and knowing little about pcs back then took it to the shop the guy said no worries he will replace the ram with the same ones i had in it. wasnt till about a month later i noticed he had put in two 4 gig DDR2 sticks rather than my 8 gig DDR3 sticks. would never trust a pc shop again after that

if you and your bro dont want to build it yourself i would recommend using Overclockers system configurator. great company never once had a problem with anything i have gotten in the past. haha you made me want a new gfx card now . that new GTX 980 looks **** hot!

 

[Tai]

that pc section tho

 

[jaffar91]

great help guys tyvm ^.^

i'll show him this post when i see him next!

Just out of curiousity on my part what would be wrong with something like this?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ULTRA-FAS...soffType=SaleAndClearence&_trksid=p5731.m3795

it was a link i clicked at the bottom of the ebay page after looking at that awsum looking GTX.

i saw 'operating system not included' so im assuming this means it has no Windows?

Regarding building the PC itself i think my il have to rope my best mate in on that one, wouldnt be the first time ive got some free labor lol

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that pc section tho

Did you go to move the it to the section, and was then like 'awww...' xD

 

[JealY]

For 240 sheets that's not terrible actually, just don't expect to be running games on anything more than medium settings. Honestly though I would definitely go with building your own even if you need time to get all the components, do some research on what you want/need and start buying your parts. You'll get a better machine for your money. Don't get someone else to help you either, if you own a PC you should know how to build one imo. Plus you'll get the satisfaction of building your own PC. Will also help when it's time to upgrade or if something goes wrong.

 

[d1craig]

i actually bought myself a new case the other day and moved my prebuilt system into it. i had only ever changed parts of the PC before (one time blowing the whole thing up aswell, which is why i never got around to doing the full thing) ie. swapped my GPU, added RAM (this is the bit i ****ed up lmao) and also changed the CPU cooler. it was very easy. the manual was very good, tells you exactly where everything goes etc.

remember to ground yourself though, i think that is why adding RAM blew my PC up like 10 years ago lol. PC world had to fix it for me, well they just replaced everything that went bad which was everything apart from the HDD etc and the RAM i tried to stick in lmao.

DO IT YOURSELF. you will be surprised how easy it is. i was nervous as hell.