Building A Gaming PC For £800

[Connaa2000]

My friend has asked me to build him a Gaming PC capable of heavy gaming and recording.

I have put together a list of parts but was keen on your ideas of possible upgrades, or even downgrades to keep the price as low as possible whilst still building a PC capable of running modern games on high settings and recording.

Here is the list http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/yfxtcf

Many thanks!

 

[superninja12]

great build for the previous generation but times changed

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£172.79 @ Novatech)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£26.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Asus H170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£108.07 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£34.08 @ Novatech)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£64.89 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card (£184.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£58.14 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£74.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £724.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-02 20:36 GMT+0000

- better performance
- u can add later 1 tb with ease
- no slot for a dvd drive just buy an external one thats the same price.
- sylake and future kabylake ready
- u can buy os very cheap from a legal it store(download).
- better quality psu(10year warranty).

for questions just poke i think u can't top this.

 

[ar2uro]

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FyQBNG
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FyQBNG/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£200.28 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£26.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£139.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£65.24 @ More Computers)
Storage: Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£58.98 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card (£184.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£49.98 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £761.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-02 20:51 GMT+0000

This build will be overclockable, unlike superninja's, though much else is similar. Also I left the 2gb HDD, because if you have any interest in recording footage, at least 2tb is necessary, without having to constantly delete stuff.

 

[superninja12]

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FyQBNG
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FyQBNG/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£200.28 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£26.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£139.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£65.24 @ More Computers)
Storage: Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£58.98 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card (£184.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£49.98 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £761.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-02 20:51 GMT+0000

This build will be overclockable, unlike superninja's, though much else is similar. Also I left the 2gb HDD, because if you have any interest in recording footage, at least 2tb is necessary, without having to constantly delete stuff.

you're nuts going with that corsair cx , only this week 4 people came to this forum because their corsair cx blew up.
its absolutely awful -> tier 4 psu.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

also you want to buy some fans for that case.
for the rests is pretty good altho i miss the ssd because its too much better and its no problem to add a 1tb hdd later which is cheap and takes no effort.

 

[ar2uro]

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FyQBNG
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FyQBNG/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£200.28 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£26.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£139.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£65.24 @ More Computers)
Storage: Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£58.98 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card (£184.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£49.98 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £761.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-02 20:51 GMT+0000

This build will be overclockable, unlike superninja's, though much else is similar. Also I left the 2gb HDD, because if you have any interest in recording footage, at least 2tb is necessary, without having to constantly delete stuff.

you're nuts going with that corsair cx , only this week 4 people came to this forum because their corsair cx blew up.
its absolutely awful -> tier 4 psu.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

also you want to buy some fans for that case.
for the rests is pretty good altho i miss the ssd because its too much better and its no problem to add a 1tb hdd later which is cheap and takes no effort.

CX's are not as crappy as people say they are, its really unlikely that it will crap out or blow up your computer. it just has a few shortcomings. Any 500W psu from a reliable manufacturer will do. 1tb is too small for recording too, but an ssd would be good.

alternative Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.37 @ Amazon UK)

 

[superninja12]

I'm sorry but thats just being ignorant, because your pc is working doesn't mean it isn't damaging your components because of the unstable power coming out of it. this will shorting your other components their lifespan.
Believe me this is a very important component of the pc.

 

[Gze]

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FyQBNG
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FyQBNG/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£200.28 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£26.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£139.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£65.24 @ More Computers)
Storage: Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£58.98 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card (£184.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£49.98 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £761.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-02 20:51 GMT+0000

This build will be overclockable, unlike superninja's, though much else is similar. Also I left the 2gb HDD, because if you have any interest in recording footage, at least 2tb is necessary, without having to constantly delete stuff.

you're nuts going with that corsair cx , only this week 4 people came to this forum because their corsair cx blew up.
its absolutely awful -> tier 4 psu.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

also you want to buy some fans for that case.
for the rests is pretty good altho i miss the ssd because its too much better and its no problem to add a 1tb hdd later which is cheap and takes no effort.

CX's are not as crappy as people say they are, its really unlikely that it will crap out or blow up your computer. it just has a few shortcomings. Any 500W psu from a reliable manufacturer will do. 1tb is too small for recording too, but an ssd would be good.

alternative Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.37 @ Amazon UK)

Agree, at least Corsair is a reputable manufacturer. If something does go wrong there is still the warranty.

 

[ar2uro]

I'm sorry but thats just being ignorant, because your pc is working doesn't mean it isn't damaging your components because of the unstable power coming out of it. this will shorting your other components their lifespan.
Believe me this is a very important component of the pc.

i'm not saying its not important. I'm saying a any 500W psu will work. A CX is not good, but its probably not gonna short anything.

 

[Archaic59]

For heavy gaming and recording, you need as many cores/threads as you can get, lots of memory and a fast SSD. An i5 with 8GB memory isn't going to do the job very well.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£219.91 @ Dabs)
Motherboard: MSI H97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£65.58 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£58.67 @ More Computers)
Storage: Crucial MX200 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£129.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.98 @ Novatech)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card (£159.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£63.48 @ Aria PC)
Total: £785.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-02 21:16 GMT+0000

 

[superninja12]

corsair cx strikes again http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2926599/asus-power-supply-surge-detection-year-system.html

 

[ar2uro]

corsair cx strikes again http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2926599/asus-power-supply-surge-detection-year-system.html

that was a 2yr old system, and it doesn't happen to everyone. I agree on the fact that the CX is not great, but there is always room to change it in the future. I also said that any 500w psu would do the trick, and i would appreciate it if you stopped trying to make this a conflict.