Radeon R9 290 Build

[gibsonryan96]

Looking for a build with the GPU in the title! My budget is anything under £1000 including the monitor! Also want to know what the build will allow me to play the top games such as Call of duty and battlefield at what fps etc ( I have no intention of overclocking atm)! Thanks

 

[Pla3p_Pr0]

I have i7 4790| sapphire r9 290 tri-x| 2x4 Kingston HyperX Fury, a good Philips monitor ( 1920x1080 ) a genius keyboard logitech mouse. A deepcool tesseract case. 850W PSU, Asus Z87-K. All this was for ~1100 Euros. I bought it this summer. So, now, you can buy a build like mine for your money!!! Battlefield 4 Multiplyer: ~70 FPS, COD Advanced warfare ~90 fps. All these max settings! But in COD AA x4, not x8. Hope it helped you!

 

[gibsonryan96]

Thank you very much! Anyone else got any opinions?

 

[DejayJD]

My build that you could go for:
- PSU: $60/£40 Corsair CX750
- CPU: $150/£95 AMD FX 8350
- GPU: $200~250/£130-150 Sapphire r9 290
- RAM: $80/£50 Corsair 8GB Ram
- Motherboard: $80/£50 Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3
- Cooling: $60/£40 Corsair Liquid CPU cooler H60
- Monitor: $200/£130 BenQ Gaming Monitor RL2455HM (24-inch LED) [awesome monitor, but there are other nice ones for cheaper]

I personally have this build running right now and it was less than $950 which is less than £650 and it runs amazingly well (almost always above 50fps on maxxed settings) playing games like Witcher 2, Battlefield 4, and other games.

Alternatively if you wanted to spend more to get closer to £1000 or change it up somehow, I would suggest some good upgrades to get more out your budget could include: a different motherboard, more RAM, better cooling, a better intel processor like the i7 4790 at $300/£200 (the AMD FX 8350 is kind of a budget processor in the sense that intel CPUs are better but twice the price, also a downside of getting this AMD processor is that overclocking is basically necessary to get good work out of it and you said you didn't want to OClock. Mine is conservatively clocked at 4.72GHz from the stock 4.00GHz. I know some people that have OC'd it over 5.00GHz with better cooling than mine) or you could also upgrade to the Radeon r9 290X for some amazing performances.

 

[logainofhades]

The 290 is still a nice card. Do you already have this card, or is that the one you believe you want? The reason I ask, is because, with your budget, you could easily go with the better GTX 970, and still squeeze in i7 performance.


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CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£185.94 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI H97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£63.16 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£74.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£53.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Palit GeForce GTX 970 4GB JetStream Video Card (£257.99 @ Aria PC)
Case: BitFenix Neos Black ATX Mid Tower Case (£29.75 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£62.78 @ CCL Computers)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.46 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£72.35 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: Asus VE247H 23.6" Monitor (£123.59 @ Aria PC)
Total: £994.92
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