Is this build really that good?

[ChurchillandChamberlain]

Motherboard
1 x Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 Motherboard £82.99
Cooler
1 x Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Topflow SR1 CPU Cooler £40.99
Optical
1 x 24x DVD-RW Optical Drive £19.99
Case
1 x Vibox Tactician Blue Gaming Case £49.99
SSD
1 x 120GB Corsair GTX Neutron Solid State Drive £93.99
PSU
1 x Corsair CX600 80+ 600W PSU £52.99
RAM
1 x 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz Low Profile RAM £144.99
GPU
1 x AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB Graphics Card £125.99
HDD
1 x 2TB (2000GB) Sata III Hard Drive £67.99
Additional Charges
1 x £60 PC Build Charge, FREE UK Delivery, FREE Shockproof Packaging + FREE 1 Year Standard Warranty Package £59.99
CPU
1 x 4.4GHz AMD FX-6350 6-Core CPU *Overclocked* £108.99
Wireless
1 x 300MBs Wireless PCI Card WiFi Network Adaptor £15.99
Fans
1 x 3x Bitfenix Spectre PRO Blue FAN Upgrade 120MM £35.97
Fan Controller
1 x Bitfenix Recon Fan Controller £29.99
LED Lighting
1 x Blue LED Light Strip £8.99
Overclock Level
1 x Overclock Level 4.5GHz £0.00

 

[itzdanielp]

I would definitely switch from (1 x 16GB RAM ) to (2x8GB or 4x4GB) as that system is capable of running dual channel RAM.

 

[ChurchillandChamberlain]

I would definitely switch from (1 x 16GB RAM ) to (2x8GB or 4x4GB) as that system is capable of running dual channel RAM.

Awesome.

As my computer knowledge is very limited, would this build run more demanding games, e.g. Battlefield 3?

 

[lucasz]

It will run games like battlefield 3 very well. If you get 8gb ram instead of 16gb (8 more than enough anyways) you could save some money and get a better gpu

 

[lucasz]

*8 is more than enough anyways

 

[filippi]

Similar build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£107.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£104.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£65.99 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Crucial M500 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£63.00 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital WD SE 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£104.95 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB Video Card (£123.90 @ Amazon UK)
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N10 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£14.99 @ CCL Computers)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.65 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£47.12 @ CCL Computers)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer (£17.35 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £712.91
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-20 22:38 GMT+0000)

 

[ChurchillandChamberlain]

So I have roughly £900. Can anyone recommend a pre-built pc that I could get the most from, gaming wise?

Thanks

 

[jeremyp79]

I would honestly build your own system. When ya go with prebuilt, getting the high quality parts gets VERY expensive quickly. A lot of people are kind of scared of putting a system together, but its really not hard to do. The choosing of hte parts is the hardest part by far.

 

[lucasz]

You really should build it yourself

 

[ChurchillandChamberlain]

You really should build it yourself

Well, do you recommend any parts? Or a link to part picker?

 

[filippi]

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2nxcZ
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2nxcZ/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2nxcZ/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£107.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£95.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£65.99 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Crucial M500 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£63.00 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital WD SE 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£104.95 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£238.00 @ Aria PC)
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-N10 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£14.99 @ CCL Computers)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.65 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£58.09 @ Dabs)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£13.18 @ Scan.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£72.12 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £896.92
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-21 02:23 GMT+0000)

Its hard to find a Radeon R9 280X in stock nowadays...

 

[lucasz]

You could get a GTX 770 instead of the R9 280x

 

[ChurchillandChamberlain]

Cool. Any tips for someone who's never built a pc before?

 

[lucasz]

Watch newegg's build a pc videos on youtube. They walk you through every part of building the computer

 

[ChurchillandChamberlain]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/arcade_/saved/3cNY how's this?

 

[filippi]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/arcade_/saved/3cNY how's this?

This is a very good build.

Though (Fx-8320 + R9 280x) will be stronger for games than (i5-4670k + GTX 660 ti).

 

[ChurchillandChamberlain]

Cool, thankyou

 

[filippi]

no problem

 

[lucasz]

The prices of the R9 280x's have gone way up. you can get a 2gb 770 for a lot less or get a 4gb 770 for about the same