A solid high end budget gaming PC

[Raihan Ahmed]

Building this for a friend of mine who wants to be able to play any game in 1080p @60fps (not games like crysis 3/metro ofc).
This is the best price for performance i could make which has a strong GPU paired with a i5-4460 which i believe is good enough to get the job done.
What do you guys think? can any money be saved anywhere? is it worth adding a bit more for the 4690k?

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/r4TQMp

 

[jafrankl]

The 4460 is solid, since you're building this for a friend who probably won't OC anyway and didn't select an aftermarket cooler. Stock coolers aren't designed for overclocking. I wouldn't get a Seagate drive due to higher failure rates and not long lifetimes when compared to other brands... WD is better choice. If you need to trim some additional money, you can downgrade the RAM to 1600 and not notice too much of a difference.

 

[herrwizo]

Z97 chipset is not required if you are not overclocking, but it cannot hurt either.

Also, avoid that Kingston V300 SSD. Very bad NAND memory quality.

Get either Samsung 840 EVO or Crucial MX100. Much faster at almost the same price.

I would keep everything else as it is.

 

[hang-the-9]

I'd get a bigger solid state drive, a 120 is enough for Windows and maybe two modern games. Unless he is OK with having to uninstall something all the time it's better to just get a larger drive. Unless he saves a lot of files you can lower the secondary drive to 1 gig and get a 240 gig SSD.

 

[Raihan Ahmed]

Thanks for the replies i have made some differences what do you think about it now?
The z97 mobo stays as their isn't really any other options that actually save money so i just stuck with it. Have swapped the 2tb Seagate for a 1tb WD blue as suggested and gone with a 120gb 840 evo as the 240gb wont be necessary for him. The SSD is solely to keep windows fast.
ram decreased to 1600mhz save £10 (not bad)

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/b4Hdt6

 

[herrwizo]

That looks much better. No complaints here