Hello again, I am back again because my budget has been reduced to £800. I donated £200 to charity for my own good feeling, also i am religious so it will help me in the after life.
Anyway back to the topic, i have £800 to spend on the system, monitor, keyboard (no mouse) and speakers. I will also need a Wireless adapter for the internet. This is the best build i can come up with. Also should i get an Asus GTX 660 TI for £188? It seems like some kind of amazing value and Asus cards can be overclocked a lot.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1imFS
I already have a 64gb SSD with Windows 7 installed on it so i dont need Windows or an SSD.
If you have any recommendations be free to input them.
Barring that, you could buy a computer but unless there's a sale and you get lucky it won't have the quite same specs at that price because you're also playing for the labor. My 650 Ti Boost system runs about $899 Retail but a larger system integrator will likely be able to do it for you for less than that because they deal in bulk.
Looks pretty good, but and this is assuming you don't have them already, I would say unless you're overclocking you might want to use the standard Intel cooler and invest in a better mouse/keyboard & headset.
It will make a world of difference in terms of your enjoyment of games; since tactile satisfaction and good audio reproduction are probably the most noticeable aspects, if your control surfaces are uncomfortable or the audio is bad it'll never be fun for you.
In my opinion a good place to trim would be the CPU if all you're doing is gaming, maybe cutting down to an i5-3470 will yield you the savings to get good peripherals and still have great processor power.
To be honest i dont see much of a difference from a £6 keyboard and some razer £70 keyboard. I just see asthetics, same with a mouse. I already have a headset but i want to buy speakers for the times when i just dont want to wear them.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1it0j
I have made this, would this perform the same in gaming?
Haswell might net you a couple of frames per second but being the 'tock' in Intel's Tick-Tock release cycle and the added heat the new Haswell processors are generating makes it somewhat undesirable at this moment.
As for the difference with control surfaces I was concerned about quality, I'm not a big fan of Razer, but going for something like a $20-30 dollar logitech keyboard and a $20-40 Cooler Master, logitech, or ROCCAT mouse will make quite a difference in terms of response time and durability over time.
Especially concerning the mouse, since regardless of the genre a low polling rate, low DPI, and weak switches will detract from the experience, gameplay, and if the mouse fails cost money to replace.
I just wanted to tell you so you don't get something that breaks on you, I've had to deal with the nightmare of sticky switches and low dpi more than once during my teens and I try to warn people whenever I get the chance.
I wouldn't sacrifice Z77 and the K cpu for a 64gb ssd. I think you hit the nail on the head with the other build.
I would take the other guys advice and just use the Intel stock cooler for a while. You won't overclock with the stock cooler, but you will save a bit of money in the short term.
Better to save for a 120gb + ssd. 64gb isn't worth it, in my opinion. Especially when you can use it to invest in an overclockable platform, which would be better for resale, among other things.
I recommend this keyboard and mouse. I use it on my £2000+ gaming system. I ran out of money lol...
It is a combo that I buy time and time again. Feels nice to use. I will probably move onto Roccat when I have the money. It's nice to have marco functions in some games.
Just showing an AMD option similar to yours :), its goes over by £15 but does have a slightly better PSU, and larger SSD which performs well :) (if you remove the SSD it comes in under budget)
I *heart* Macro Functions... I've been using ROCCAT for all of my company's higher end builds; I have the MK120 on a build and the wireless 200 version for a console replacement, they're good combos.
If you play twitch-based MMO's or First Person Shooters, you'll definitely want to drop some money on a mouse though. On my rig here at home I've got the CM Storm Inferno, the sensor's a little temperamental but the dpi switch lets me quickly go from close quarters to sniping and back quite easily; with an added setting for jets and boats on BF3.
The FX8350 is very nice, good power; definitely a good alternative as it sits right at level the i5-3570 in terms of performance. If you can get it on sale, it's golden... and the eight cores are boss for streaming video while you game and multitasking.
well first of all, a 970 board is not made for sli setups, Then you realy need to look to a 990FX chipsetboard, if you also want great overclockability's then don´t go with the lower end 990FX boards, but pickup a Asus M5A99FX pro R2.0, or more better, an sabertooth. if you plan to go with amd´s 8 core cpu´s.
i made this: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1iFic
i also selected a diffrent psu, those corsairs builders aren´t that great, i selected a OCZ ZT 650W 80+ bronze fully modular. for a nice price.(XFX psu´s are even more solid but cost alot more!) i could also recommend to spend a few extra pounds and go for the FX8350, is higher overclockable. but high overclocks 4.6 GHZ + with that CM hyper evo is not gonne happen. then you need a beter cpu cooler aswell.
I am sorry even if this is a good build it is closer to £900.
Also if i was to get a GTX 770 i wouldnt want to SLI in the future.
Edit: I now dont want to SLI in the future as i find it would be easier to sell my card and buy a more powerful one and when it is time to upgrade i would have build up some money to get a better GPU. So i dont need a motherboard for SLI.