£800-£900 GBP (help building ) gaming PC, as high end as I can get for that price range

[Privster]

Any help, not a computer part guru - no idea tbh.

Want a gaming desktop to play games on, such as; league, wow, on ultra if possible?

Currently splashed out on a monitor:

24" Acer Predator GN246HLbid LED 144Hz Gaming Monitor 3D/HDMI/DVI/VGA 1920x1080, 350cd/m², 1ms Nv 3D Ready Black


thank you in advance for helping

 

[lodders]

i5 6600k
hyper 212 cooler
Z170 motherboard for under £100 I prefer Gigabyte or ASUS
GTX970 graphics
16GB 2400mhz DDR4 memory. Crucial, Gskill, Corsair are all good.
Supernova or Seasonic power supply 600W
Samsung 850 Evo 240Gb SSD
Standard 2TB HDD
Case for £30 or less - pick one with good reviews

Buy it all on Amazon - if anything goes wrong at least you have only one company to deal with

 

[kwa-e]

This should fit your needs.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£210.08 @ Dabs)
Motherboard: MSI H97 Guard-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£76.34 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Beast 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£35.10 @ Aria PC)
Storage: *Sandisk Z400s 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£31.98 @ Novatech)
Storage: *Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.97 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 390 8GB PCS+ Video Card (£249.95 @ More Computers)
Case: Fractal Design FD-CA-CORE-3500-BL-W ATX Mid Tower Case (£66.98 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£62.98 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: *Samsung SH-118CB/BEBE DVD/CD Drive (£8.70 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (£74.94 @ Aria PC)
Total: £856.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-21 02:11 GMT+0000

 

[ben001]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£155.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty H170 Performance ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£98.20 @ More Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£40.69 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Sandisk Ultra II 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£56.39 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.50 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (£299.99 @ Aria PC)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case (£39.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£76.74 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.98 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (£74.94 @ Aria PC)
Total: £891.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-21 05:08 GMT+0000

 

[lodders]

This should fit your needs.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£210.08 @ Dabs)
Motherboard: MSI H97 Guard-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£76.34 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Beast 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£35.10 @ Aria PC)
Storage: *Sandisk Z400s 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£31.98 @ Novatech)
Storage: *Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.97 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 390 8GB PCS+ Video Card (£249.95 @ More Computers)
Case: Fractal Design FD-CA-CORE-3500-BL-W ATX Mid Tower Case (£66.98 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£62.98 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: *Samsung SH-118CB/BEBE DVD/CD Drive (£8.70 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (£74.94 @ Aria PC)
Total: £856.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-21 02:11 GMT+0000

This is a good build.
Not sure about buying stuff from Novatech or More Computers - some bad reviews.

 

[burgessanthony]

My advice with the 390 build is that you need to really invest in good case fans, at least two intake and two exchaust....it chucks out lots of heat. Also, no ssd in that build, buts its still very strong.

At 50£ cheaper the 390 is far better performance per pound now than the 970 in the UK.

 

[kwa-e]

My advice with the 390 build is that you need to really invest in good case fans, at least two intake and two exchaust....it chucks out lots of heat. Also, no ssd in that build, buts its still very strong.

At 50£ cheaper the 390 is far better performance per pound now than the 970 in the UK.

In all my builds below 1000USD/GBP/EUR I tend to prioritize performance over loadtimes as it's what really matters in the end. Besides that, You can always add the SSD later on once you have the money.

And the 390 has only an extra 60W of TDP over the the 970, which I figured two fans are plenty for the system. But investing in an extra 2 fans wouldn't hurt.

 

[kwa-e]

My advice with the 390 build is that you need to really invest in good case fans, at least two intake and two exchaust....it chucks out lots of heat. Also, no ssd in that build, buts its still very strong.

At 50£ cheaper the 390 is far better performance per pound now than the 970 in the UK.

[strike]Seems that 2 fans would be plenty enough for the TDP of the system, But an extra 2 fans would be good though.[/strike]

Double post.

 

[burgessanthony]

Well, 2 may well be fine I have 4 all run off a specific speedfan profile. I find 2 in and 2 out run nice and slow (about 900) and keep it cool whereas two hage to work harder. The 390 really does chuck out a lot of heat.

Good luck with build!

 

[bicycle_repair_man]

Here's my two pence:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/TRFvpg.

I've ommitted a case on the basis that it's very specific to the individual. Windows 8.1 is about £15 cheaper than Windows 10 for some bizarre reason.

The R9 390 doesn't represent that great a value for money proposition for the monitor you have; it's only £20 cheaper than a GTX 970, but the 970 offers the same kind of performance whilst producing less heat and noise. Nvidia drivers also tend to have the lion's share when it comes to game optimisation.

The R9 390 isn't listed, but it would be fair to assume that it would be close to the 290X.

 

[burgessanthony]

Both are good. I was basing my comment in the listed 20£ difference. Power consumption negligable over the year in comparison to cost of card and pc overall. Talking 15p extra energy cost for each 16 hours gaming for the 390. Who cares about that really when spending 270£ on one component for one specific task?

BUT benches show both cards trade blows depending on games...oc 390 vs oc 970 is very close, with 390 pulling away at 1440 due to more men bandwidth and vram.