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So, as the title suggests I am going to be building a £1000 pounds (absolute top limit) and as far as I can tell I have finished with picking all the parts and now it just comes to buying it.
So before I do this I want to check that I have selected all parts that are the best for my price limit. I am going to be as comprehensive here with my intentions for the PC and why I picked each part.
So what will I be doing with the PC? Well I am going to be mainly Gaming at 1080p single monitor preferably at max settings but I am not entirely fussed if I need to turn down a bit to get a smooth framerate (personally I like a framerate of 60 for FPS but I am okay with 30 as a bare minimum, and any other game I am happy with 30). On top of gaming I will also be recording gameplay, streaming gameplay, as well as editing those videos and 1080p camera footage. As far as this goes render times will not be a big issue to me as I can just leave it to render as I do other stuff.
Also a more... Personal and minor issue is, well I would like it to be a black/white colour scheme. Though if the cost to do this would be to high I will just scrap it and go all utilitarian.
So without further ado here is the build:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£143.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£87.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£68.45 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£71.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£69.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£251.68 @ Dabs)
Case: Corsair Vengeance C70 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£89.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair RM 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£95.65 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£59.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £939.48
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-18 21:22 GMT+0000)
So let's go through this top to bottom:
CPU: So for this a big thing is the price to performance. It is a good price at £143 and can perform very well especially compared to Intel CPU's of a higher price. Alternatively I am considering the fx-8320.
CPU Cooler: I intend to be overclocking the CPU just to squeeze as much performance as possible out of it, now this obviously means the stock cooler wont be good enough, now I was considering the Coolermaster 212, but I personally don't like the way they look (Obviously if I can save the money here and upgrade somewhere else I will) and the H100i does have very good temperatures.
Motherboard: Now the motherboard is something that i could never really fit my head around, but someone from some forum that I can't remember said this one would suit my needs and it is black so it would fit with the black/white theme. I am entirely open to being told I am stupid and what I should actually get when it comes to this.
Memory: I have heard good things about Corsair RAM, it's DDR3-1600 8GB (2x4) which is about all I should need, at least to start with, and it is just about the only white RAM I can find.
Storage: Now with this I only really need an SSD and at that it only needs to be small as I already have, and intend to use, a 2TB drive for primary storage. The reason I want an SSD here is for OS and for primary applications (photoshop, sony vegas, etc), that or OS and then partition the rest off as a cache for the HDD to give that a boost. As for the drive itself I have heard good things about it and it's a good price.
Video Card: So I was looking around for cards that would give me good performance at a good price, and this card seemed to fit. It is just a few frames below a GTX 780 (Stock) and it is only around £250. Now part of the reason this stand out to me is that I am quite excited for Mantle, with Thief and Star Citizen (2 games I am really looking forward to) having said they will be using Mantle I should get better performance. Also at that price point I can get another one in a couple of months, crossfire and go 3x1080p monitors.
Case: I like it... Everything should fit in it... Pretty simple really, though there are other cases I have my eye on.
PSU: As far as this goes it is really 4 things. First, fully modular, I just want to get rid of those extra cables. Second, I have heard great things about Corsairs PSU's. Third, it has a white sleeved cable kit. Fourth, it being 750w would give me room for expansion, though maybe I could push it to a 650w.
OS: I just kinda default to 7 as that is what I know, but I have heard good things about 8 as long as you can work around the Metro thing (personal preference, I don't like it without a touchscreen).
So that was a pretty long post, if you made it this far I congratulate you and thank you. if you were looking for the TL;DR, well, it all boils down to:
1. Absoloute max of £1000.
2. Gaming/Editing PC.
3. That build up there, is it poop or woop? (I don't know why I said that either)
So now we hit the end I want to say thank you to everyone whom has helped me learn, and to Tom's Hardware in general for being an excellent resource.
EDIT: If I missed anything yell at me and I will fix it.
So before I do this I want to check that I have selected all parts that are the best for my price limit. I am going to be as comprehensive here with my intentions for the PC and why I picked each part.
So what will I be doing with the PC? Well I am going to be mainly Gaming at 1080p single monitor preferably at max settings but I am not entirely fussed if I need to turn down a bit to get a smooth framerate (personally I like a framerate of 60 for FPS but I am okay with 30 as a bare minimum, and any other game I am happy with 30). On top of gaming I will also be recording gameplay, streaming gameplay, as well as editing those videos and 1080p camera footage. As far as this goes render times will not be a big issue to me as I can just leave it to render as I do other stuff.
Also a more... Personal and minor issue is, well I would like it to be a black/white colour scheme. Though if the cost to do this would be to high I will just scrap it and go all utilitarian.
So without further ado here is the build:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£143.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£87.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£68.45 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£71.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£69.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£251.68 @ Dabs)
Case: Corsair Vengeance C70 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£89.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair RM 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£95.65 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£59.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £939.48
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-18 21:22 GMT+0000)
So let's go through this top to bottom:
CPU: So for this a big thing is the price to performance. It is a good price at £143 and can perform very well especially compared to Intel CPU's of a higher price. Alternatively I am considering the fx-8320.
CPU Cooler: I intend to be overclocking the CPU just to squeeze as much performance as possible out of it, now this obviously means the stock cooler wont be good enough, now I was considering the Coolermaster 212, but I personally don't like the way they look (Obviously if I can save the money here and upgrade somewhere else I will) and the H100i does have very good temperatures.
Motherboard: Now the motherboard is something that i could never really fit my head around, but someone from some forum that I can't remember said this one would suit my needs and it is black so it would fit with the black/white theme. I am entirely open to being told I am stupid and what I should actually get when it comes to this.
Memory: I have heard good things about Corsair RAM, it's DDR3-1600 8GB (2x4) which is about all I should need, at least to start with, and it is just about the only white RAM I can find.
Storage: Now with this I only really need an SSD and at that it only needs to be small as I already have, and intend to use, a 2TB drive for primary storage. The reason I want an SSD here is for OS and for primary applications (photoshop, sony vegas, etc), that or OS and then partition the rest off as a cache for the HDD to give that a boost. As for the drive itself I have heard good things about it and it's a good price.
Video Card: So I was looking around for cards that would give me good performance at a good price, and this card seemed to fit. It is just a few frames below a GTX 780 (Stock) and it is only around £250. Now part of the reason this stand out to me is that I am quite excited for Mantle, with Thief and Star Citizen (2 games I am really looking forward to) having said they will be using Mantle I should get better performance. Also at that price point I can get another one in a couple of months, crossfire and go 3x1080p monitors.
Case: I like it... Everything should fit in it... Pretty simple really, though there are other cases I have my eye on.
PSU: As far as this goes it is really 4 things. First, fully modular, I just want to get rid of those extra cables. Second, I have heard great things about Corsairs PSU's. Third, it has a white sleeved cable kit. Fourth, it being 750w would give me room for expansion, though maybe I could push it to a 650w.
OS: I just kinda default to 7 as that is what I know, but I have heard good things about 8 as long as you can work around the Metro thing (personal preference, I don't like it without a touchscreen).
So that was a pretty long post, if you made it this far I congratulate you and thank you. if you were looking for the TL;DR, well, it all boils down to:
1. Absoloute max of £1000.
2. Gaming/Editing PC.
3. That build up there, is it poop or woop? (I don't know why I said that either)
So now we hit the end I want to say thank you to everyone whom has helped me learn, and to Tom's Hardware in general for being an excellent resource.
EDIT: If I missed anything yell at me and I will fix it.
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