What does everyone think of this £750 gaming PC?

James Gibson

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Case - CORSAIR SPEC-03 COMPACT GAMING CASE (best budget/£50 case in my opinion)
Processor - i5-4690 (not the unlocked version as I don't plan on overclocking to void warranty,) - get an i5-4460 if you want to save £30
CPU cooling - Super Quiet Titan DragonFly Cooler
Motherboard - ASUS® Z97-P
RAM - 8GB Kingston Dual-DDR3 running at 1600mhz
GPU - GTX 960 (get a GTX 970 or R9 390 if you have the extra money now and want better GPU)
Hard drive - 1TB WD Black (reliable and 64mb cache)
PSU - Corsair 650W CS series 'Ultra quiet' (in excess of 500W for future upgrades)
WiFi card - WIRELESS 802.11N 300mbps
OS- Windows 10

Total - £776 - £740 if you stay with the GTX 960

This PC will maintain a solid 55+ fps on BF4 at ultra and have an average around 65fps, but I would lower the settings to medium to get upwards of 100 as I will be getting a 144hz monitor and because ultra isn't a lot better (look on YouTube). Also getting a 144hz monitor as I will be playing CS GO a lot and this PC will easily get 144fps on CS at highest settings of 1920x1080

Let me know if you would change anything keeping it under £800, I fell as if this will be the computer I will buy in a month or two, but open to suggestions.
 
I would take r9 280x over gtx 960, why? it has more Vram and has more stream processors. for brand sapphire makes good.
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Okay, I'll look into it, thanks