£700 gtx960 build for Battlefield4

[Lucas McAllister]

I am looking for a PC that can run Battlefield 4 and other demanding games at max graphics with some anti-aliasing enabled. I would like to center this build around the gtx 960 but any other graphics card recommendations are welcome. This will primarily be a gaming machine and will not be doing much else other than browsing the internet and doing light work.

Approximate Purchase Date: quite a while, mid april 2015.

Budget Range: Preferably no more than £700

System Usage from Most to Least Important:Mainly playing demanding games, mainly Battlefield 4 and Far Cry 4 at max graphics, lots of internet browsing (YouTube mainly), and light working (word, excel etc).

Are you buying a monitor: no

Parts to Upgrade: This is a full pc build except for a monitor and a mouse, hard drive needs to be at least 1tb.

Do you need to buy OS: Yes windows 8.1

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: aria.co.uk but most other websites are welcome as long as they are UK based.

Location: City, Berkshire, UK near london.

Parts Preferences: I would like an intel cpu (quad core i5) I might go sli in the future so a motherboard with two x16 PCI-E slots would be helpful but certainly not needed.

Overclocking: I will be overclocking the graphics card but not the cpu.

SLI or Crossfire: Not at the moment but maybe in the future.

Your Monitor Resolution: I will be running at 1920x1080. I probably won't be upgrading to 4k nor will i upgrade to more than one monitor.

Additional Comments: I would like a window in the case, but price is more important than this. The mouse is a Mad Catz R-A-T-7 Mouse ( I wasn't sure why this was helpful but it was included in the guide)

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: I am upgrading as my old gaming laptop with a gt 620m 1gb was unsuprisingly becoming slow.

Sorry if any information is missing as this is my first thread. Sorry if the links don't work as im not sure i implemented them right.

Any advise at all would be greatly appreciated and adjustments to the requirements can be advised. PC partpicker links would be great. 🙂

 

[spentshells]

A gtx960 isn't the ideal choice for battlefield. That games favors the AMD chips. 280, 285,280x well even a 270x will all get you far better frame rates depending on the rest of the system.

 

[ImDaBaron]

A gtx960 isn't the ideal choice for battlefield. That games favors the AMD chips. 280, 285,280x well even a 270x will all get you far better frame rates depending on the rest of the system.

If he's playing at 1080p a 960 wll be fine. But a 970 will max it out. Besides online is CPU heavy.

 

[Nextg_Rival]

It goes 20 pounds over, sorry: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/w2jNZL

Good CPU for Battlefield and the R9 280X which is a superior GPU to the GTX 960. Feel free to get a Z97 Gaming 5 motherboard if you can afford it and are interested in overclocking, as it allows you to overclock a lot (once you upgrade to a good overclocking CPU like the i5 4690K).

 

[spentshells]

A gtx960 isn't the ideal choice for battlefield. That games favors the AMD chips. 280, 285,280x well even a 270x will all get you far better frame rates depending on the rest of the system.

If he's playing at 1080p a 960 wll be fine. But a 970 will max it out. Besides online is CPU heavy.

A 270x will outperform the 960 on battlefield at all resolutions and it's a shite side cheaper.

 

[ImDaBaron]

A gtx960 isn't the ideal choice for battlefield. That games favors the AMD chips. 280, 285,280x well even a 270x will all get you far better frame rates depending on the rest of the system.

If he's playing at 1080p a 960 wll be fine. But a 970 will max it out. Besides online is CPU heavy.

A 270x will outperform the 960 on battlefield at all resolutions and it's a shite side cheaper.

I think the 960 is pretty worthless. But it will work. A 970 or 290 would be ideal.

 

[Nextg_Rival]

The GTX 960 is not an ideal GPU by any means - I think it is overpriced (its real price should be between 160 and 180 dollars, not 200) and overrated (the memory bus and low VRAM choke this card to death), although I am pretty sure that it should be significantly better than the R9 270X. The R9 280X on the other hand... that's one monster of a GPU.

 

[Lucas McAllister]

Is there any particular non-reference 280x that I should get? And what mobo would be best for that?

 

[Nextg_Rival]

Is there any particular non-reference 280x that I should get? And what mobo would be best for that?

You might want to take a look at the build I suggested - it's a very decent machine. There I've picked the Gigabyte Z97 Gaming 5 and the XFX Black Edition Double Dissipation R9 280X.