Desktop New Build Advice - £1000 budget

[Solidstate74]

Hi all, first time on these forums for a few years...

It's been almost 10 years since my last desktop build, so thought it time to build a new one.

Looking to buy this week with a budget of £1,000, and will need to replace everything except for case, mouse and keyboard. I've got an Antec P180 case which I love, though may replace the keyboard and mouse if in budget.

It's going to be a general use PC, so want to be able to use it for quite a variety of things, home media, some office work, a little bit of gaming, some basic photoshop & music production stuff, but nothing too intensive.

Produced the below spec so far after a bit of research, but there's still a few things I haven't picked yet, and interested to know of any better suggestions for the things i've already picked, and if they'll work well together. Bang for buck is of course prime, so wouldn't mind reducing cost on some of the things listed if better alternatives, though probably won't overclock, if so only slightly, and any element of future proofing for potential upgrading in future would be good where possible.

Thanks in advance!

Mobo: MSI Z170A PC Mate - £90.00
CPU: 5-6500 Skylake Processor (socket LGA1151) - £150.00
GPU: R9 380 4GB Card - £170.00
Case: Existing Antec P180 - £0.00
PSU: Seasonic S12G 650W Gold PSU - £90.00
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 Memory
SSD: Samsung 500GB 850 EVO-Series Solid State Drive - £140.00
HDD: 1Hitachi Deskstar 2TB £65.00
DVD: ****
Monitor: ***27”+***
Keyboard: Existing £0.00
Mouse: Existing £0.00
Speakers: ***5.1 or 7.1 ***t
OS: Windows 10 Home OEM - £80.00

Estimated cost so far: £785.00 (excluding DVD, Monitor, Speakers)

 

[bodeen2012]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£164.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: MSI H170A PC Mate ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£80.63 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Panram Ninja-V 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£45.90 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£61.98 @ Novatech)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£51.98 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 380X 4GB PCS+ Myst. Edition Video Card (£198.99 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£71.99 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) (£65.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £742.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-20 21:21 GMT+0000

 

[imsqam]

Okay, here is a build. Not sure about your requirements for photoshop and music, the i5 should do it no problem. You might even get away with an i3-6100, save yourself about £70.00 if you did the switch. I switched out your PSU, you do not need a 650W, 550W is more than enough for this build. Hope I got all parts correct, some information was not clear.

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9Y4fNG
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9Y4fNG/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£164.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£93.86 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£40.98 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£112.63 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card (£165.98 @ Aria PC)
Case: Antec P180 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£54.29 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer (£9.49 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (£74.94 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: BenQ GL2760H 60Hz 27.0" Monitor (£180.50 @ Kustom PCs)
Speakers: Logitech Z323 30W 2.1ch Speakers (£48.07 @ Misco UK)
Total: £945.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-20 21:34 GMT+0000