£700 Gaming PC build ($800-$900)

[Sample_Text28]

This is my first build, and i'm stuck with a budget of £700 (or $800-$900). This is for gaming (hopefully 1080p), and general work as well. I would like to have an i5 of some sort, Skylake or not, and possibly rx 470/ gtx 960/970, along with 8GB of RAM. I am not so interested in overclocking, and case-wise, i would choose one of the corsair carbide specs. The price WILL include a monitor with 1080p, and also i would probably get 1 TB Hard drive, and 120GB of SSD. My supplier will most definitely be amazon uk, and that is what the prices will be based on. The monitor I am thinking of right now is the asus VS228DE, but any alternatives will be fine. I am open to all suggestions, and any form of help will be greatly appreciated.

This is a build i made (not so good): http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/4Xmt8K

And this is a suggestion from CTurbo ): http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/dDJK3F

 

[sadams04]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£163.98 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.93 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£33.99 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Sandisk Z400s 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£65.59 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.78 @ Misco UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GB Video Card (£189.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower Case (£55.89 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£70.97 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £692.11

 

[Sample_Text28]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£163.98 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.93 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£33.99 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Sandisk Z400s 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£65.59 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.78 @ Misco UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GB Video Card (£189.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower Case (£55.89 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£70.97 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £692.11

thx

 

[SkyEvil]

Hi Sample, I would personally go with CTurbo build http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/dDJK3F, but with this gpu: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powercolor-radeon-rx-480-8192mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-187-pc.html and a 750 evo 250gb ssd, if you don't mind spending an extra £30. Cheers

 

[welledge]

Purchasing solely from Amazon UK this is the route I would go. It is ~20 over your budget but performance wise, you will see large increases over the other proposed builds.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£181.90 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£55.36 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£35.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£35.95 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Blue 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£48.00 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Mini Video Card (£235.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£52.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£70.97 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £717.14
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-29 18:33 BST+0100

 

[Sample_Text28]

I have chosen my final build... Thanks for all of the suggestions, I have considered and factored in your builds in some way or another. I had to decrease my budget, as I realised I needed to get speakers, Mike, wireless adaptor and webcam, (most of which are implemented in my benq monitor). Anyways, here it is: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/MGrfyf