Gaming pc build €700 - €800

Munster D 187

1. What is your budget? €700 - €800
2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? [Gaming/Internet] (skyrim/saintsrow3/battlefield3/ outlast)
3. Do you need a copy of Windows? yes
4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? no
5. Do you need a monitor? No.
6. Do you need any of these peripherals? Wireless Card
7. Are you willing to try overclocking? If it helps then yes
8. How can you pay? Visa debit card
9. When are you purchasing? In a month or so 
10. If you need help building it, where are you based? Tipperary
It would be great if this build could be future proof for a few years for upgrading.
Thanks in advance to anyone who contributes their help.

GalwayGaillimh

I bought a nice pc off a crowd on eBay Germany a month ago for E555 including delivery
I7 4770k , 8 Gigs Kingston1600Mhz Ram (Single 8gb Chip) and its got an Asus H87-PRo Motherboard along with a BeQuiet Pure Power Silent 80+ 530W 120mm Powersupply

I had an ssd drive from my old machine and a copy of windows 8 and bought a semi decent graphics card off adverts (Even though the built in intel graphics was able to play some games no bother along with movies etc)

Machine was literally plug and play, very happy with it.

Drop me a pm if you want the link to them on eBay

BloodBath

I bought a nice pc off a crowd on eBay Germany a month ago for E555 including delivery
I7 4770k , 8 Gigs Kingston1600Mhz Ram (Single 8gb Chip) and its got an Asus H87-PRo Motherboard along with a BeQuiet Pure Power Silent 80+ 530W 120mm Powersupply

They sold you an overclocking cpu with a board that can't overclock. Sounds like a good company. The price and quality of the parts is good but pairing a 4770k with a h87 board and no after market cpu cooler is pointless.

The majority of games are vastly bound by the gpu as well so pumping the majority of the budget into the cpu would be a bad move.

Something like this would give you far more performance in the majority of games and comes inside your budget.

There's a lot of overclocking head room on the cpu and gpu as well.

The gpu comes with 4 free games if you email HWVS they will send you the codes for Tomb raider, far cry 3, crysis 3 and bioshock infinite.

Item|Price
WD Caviar Blue 1TB 6Gb's|€56.12
SanDisk SSD 64GB 6,4cm S-ATA 600|€50.68
Zalman Z9 Plus Midi Tower - black, ohne Netzteil|€46.70
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 450W|€45.97
8GB G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€55.47
AMD FX-6300 Prozessor, Boxed, Sockel AM3+|€101.96
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0, AM3+, ATX|€70.79
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - Intel/AMD|€29.68
Club 3D Radeon HD 7950 13Series, 3GB GDDR5, AMD Radeon HD 7950, PCI- Express|€255.96
Samsung SH-118AB schwarz|€12.45
TP-Link TL-WN781N, 150Mbps, PCIe x1|€9.53
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€754.30

Windows 7 OEM €44

Total €798.30

GalwayGaillimh

Sorry to correct you but they Did'nt sell me a motherboard that cant be overclocked the H87 can be overclocked as Asus released a bios update last month to allow it to be overclocked with K series chips.

I can always purchase an aftermarket cooler again at some stage, if I wish to go overclocking, they arent that expensive.

For what I paid E555 including delivery considering what the parts themselves cost, it was a good deal.

BloodBath wrote: »

They sold you an overclocking cpu with a board that can't overclock. Sounds like a good company. The price and quality of the parts is good but pairing a 4770k with a h87 board and no after market cpu cooler is pointless.

The majority of games are vastly bound by the gpu as well so pumping the majority of the budget into the cpu would be a bad move.

Something like this would give you far more performance in the majority of games and comes inside your budget.

There's a lot of overclocking head room on the cpu and gpu as well.

The gpu comes with 4 free games if you email HWVS they will send you the codes for Tomb raider, far cry 3, crysis 3 and bioshock infinite.

Item|Price
WD Caviar Blue 1TB 6Gb's|€56.12
SanDisk SSD 64GB 6,4cm S-ATA 600|€50.68
Zalman Z9 Plus Midi Tower - black, ohne Netzteil|€46.70
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 450W|€45.97
8GB G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€55.47
AMD FX-6300 Prozessor, Boxed, Sockel AM3+|€101.96
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0, AM3+, ATX|€70.79
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - Intel/AMD|€29.68
Club 3D Radeon HD 7950 13Series, 3GB GDDR5, AMD Radeon HD 7950, PCI- Express|€255.96
Samsung SH-118AB schwarz|€12.45
TP-Link TL-WN781N, 150Mbps, PCIe x1|€9.53
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€754.30
Windows 7 OEM €44

Total €798.30

BloodBath

GalwayGaillimh wrote: »

Sorry to correct you but they Did'nt sell me a motherboard that cant be overclocked the H87 can be overclocked as Asus released a bios update last month to allow it to be overclocked with K series chips.

I can always purchase an aftermarket cooler again at some stage, if I wish to go overclocking, they arent that expensive.

For what I paid E555 including delivery considering what the parts themselves cost, it was a good deal.

Fair enough then it was a decent deal for that price but for the op he would be better off pumping the money into a good gpu over the cpu. The 6300 is a very capable processor especially when overclocked.

I'll remember that for recommending future builds though.

Munster D 187

Thanks very much lads for yer help. Just wanted to know Bloodbath with the build you suggested, would it possible to upgrade the ram and gpu if needed to in the future? And would this build be able to run a program called 3D Max for graphic design?

BloodBath

Yes and yes. You shouldn't need a gpu upgrade for a while. The 7950 is a very strong card especially when overclocked but you can upgrade it when needed. There is room to add another 8gb of ram if you need to as well.

Munster D 187

BloodBath wrote: »

Yes and yes. You shouldn't need a gpu upgrade for a while. The 7950 is a very strong card especially when overclocked but you can upgrade it when needed. There is room to add another 8gb of ram if you need to as well.

Thanks very much Bloodbath, i am going to go with your build. Would the HWVS site build it for me and if so how much would it cost? Or would i be better off to do it myself, i've never actually built a pc before, just installed a graphics card thats all. Is it straight forward enough?

BloodBath

No problem.

They offer a build service for €20 if you add this to your cart.

I would advise you to do it yourself though. It's good to know how and it's not hard. There's lots of guides online and on youtube.

Add another sata cable as well.

http://www.hardwareversand.de/S-ATA/40716/LogiLink+SATA+Anschlusskabel+mit+Sicherungslasche%2C+0.5m.article

Munster D 187

BloodBath wrote: »

No problem.

They offer a build service for €20 if you add this to your cart.

I would advise you to do it yourself though. It's good to know how and it's not hard. There's lots of guides online and on youtube.

Add another sata cable as well.

http://www.hardwareversand.de/S-ATA/40716/LogiLink+SATA+Anschlusskabel+mit+Sicherungslasche%2C+0.5m.article

Excuse my ignorance but what is the extra sata cable for Bloodbath? Would i need it to connect the usb ports on the front of the case to the motherboard?

johntylol

normally motherboards come with 2 sata cables. You need three for hard drive, SSD and optical drive

Munster D 187

johntylol wrote: »

normally motherboards come with 2 sata cables. You need three for hard drive, SSD and optical drive

Thanks, good to know.

Munster D 187

BloodBath wrote: »

The gpu comes with 4 free games if you email HWVS they will send you the codes for Tomb raider, far cry 3, crysis 3 and bioshock infinite.

When i'm ordering these parts from HWVS, when should i email them about these codes?
And can you recommend another case, Bloodbath? Unfortunately the case in the list above is a little too tall for where i'd be putting it. I'd need a case with a height of no greater than 43cm. Would this case be suitable for this build http://www.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?adp=0&aid=73897&agid=631&apop=0?