Need help building a gaming pc

[jollyjohn87]

Im like a noob when it comes to this but i have had some help from a friend and picked out these parts ill list them below i need to no if all the parts will work fine. I also need help with picking a graphics card and a power supply to power it all.

intel i5 4440 3.10GHZ £ 134
Asus b85m-gc2 motherboard £ 55
corsair 4GB 1600MHZ DDR3 RAM £ 35
WD caviar blue 500GB sata III 6gb/s 16mb £ 40

Any help would be great as im planing to buy this in the next week or so if yous think there is better parts in and around the same price mark please let me no.

Games i will be playing
Dayz planetside 2 arma 3 minecraft planet explorers battlefield 4 call of duty ghosts

 

[Coal Felpz]

As you may or may not know, Battlefield 4 is a very intensive and demanding game.
What are your desired settings within the game? (Med/High/Ultra etc).

As for a card, I will assume you have a fairly high budget seeing as you have many intensive games in your list. I would have to recommend an R9 280x. The card may be rather expensive but can handle Battlefield 4 on it's maximum capable settings when paired with a good processor.

As for a power supply, this differs per graphics card and is generally listed in it's specifications somewhere. I would shoot for about a 600W PSU just to be safe, and be warned - these are very important. If you get a PSU that fails to provide enough power, your components can fail as a result.

RAM should probably be raised to 8GB (2 x 4GB). Sadly, 4GB is hardly enough anymore. You could get by just fine on it, and your PC will work fine but 8GB is much more optimal for gaming.

Best of luck with your build.
Please post your budget as well, maybe I (and everyone else) can help you a little better.

 

[jollyjohn87]

thanks for your help im planing on running these games on med/high at the start as im on a budget but will upgrade in the future.

As for the power supply would a corsair 600w be a good choice.

 

[oajarmeh95]

So i see you want to run arma 3, you will need more performance.
you should increase the ram to 8gb or 16gb as these new games running on win 7 or 8
for the graphics try gtx 770 classified from EVGA or any gtx 780

i hope that will help you !!

 

[jollyjohn87]

So i see you want to run arma 3, you will need more performance.
you should increase the ram to 8gb or 16gb as these new games running on win 7 or 8
for the graphics try gtx 770 classified from EVGA or any gtx 780

i hope that will help you !!

Yea im looking at the gtx 770 looks like a good card

 

[lonewolf7]

What is your max budget for all the components ? I would like to make some changes. Thanks.

 

[jollyjohn87]

What is your max budget for all the components ? I would like to make some changes. Thanks.

my max budget would be about £400 but can upgrade to a better graphics card later on in the year

 

[lonewolf7]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£163.57 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£92.48 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£73.45 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (£193.97 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£47.12 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £612.59
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-08 14:23 GMT+0000)

 

[jollyjohn87]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£163.57 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£92.48 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£73.45 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card (£193.97 @ Dabs)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£47.12 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £612.59
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-08 14:23 GMT+0000)

Thats what im hoping to get but dont have that much at the minute just looking to build one now that would play most games on med then i can upgrade when i get more money

 

[lonewolf7]

How about this one, I replaced the GPU which will be able to handle games on med settings :

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£163.57 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£92.48 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£73.45 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 650 2GB Video Card (£89.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£47.12 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £508.60
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-08 15:28 GMT+0000)

 

[jollyjohn87]

How about this one, I replaced the GPU which will be able to handle games on med settings :

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£163.57 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£92.48 @ Dabs)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£73.45 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 650 2GB Video Card (£89.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£47.12 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £508.60
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-08 15:28 GMT+0000)

yes thats better thanks very much for your help

 

[lonewolf7]

You are welcome.

 

[Coal Felpz]

As for the power supply would a corsair 600w be a good choice.

Indeed, I run a Corsair 600W as well without problem. They are Bronze Certified too.
Best of luck with your rig!