First Time Build

Jdstaun

Hi all,

I've been thinking about building a pc for a while now and I've decided (since I have some money saved) that now would be the best time to start ordering the parts for the build. I've mainly played on consoles the last 5+ years and would love to get back into pc gaming, I play a limited amount of games on my laptop at the minute but I don't have long left with that. This will be my first ever build and I have little to no experience with it, taking apart my laptop to clean it would be the most of it! So all help would be greatly appreciated. Just looking for a good pc that will last for a while and would be easily upgradable down the road.

I know I haven't put down a budget for the monitor/peripherals but I'm just looking to buy good quality items for those areas, so whatever recommendation you have for those I'm all ears.


1. What is your budget? €1200 for the pc itself not including the monitor or any peripherals.

2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? Mainly gaming, Overwatch, Battlefield, Doom, Far Cry Primal, No man’s sky, star citizen. Would also download a good bit of movies/tvshows on it.

3. Do you need a copy of Windows? Yes

4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? Nope

5. Do you need a monitor? Yes

5a. If yes, what size do you need. 24' or more?

5b. If no, what resolution is your current monitor and do you plan to upgrade in the near future? NA

6. Do you need any of these peripherals? Keyboard/Mouse/Wireless Card/Speakers/Headphones

7. Are you willing to try overclocking? No

8. How can you pay? Credit Card/Paypal/Laser

9. When are you purchasing? In the next 2-3weeks

10. If you need help building it, where are you based? Mayo

Digital Solitude

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (€185.84 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (€48.10 @ Mindfactory)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€95.93 @ Mindfactory)
Storage: Western Digital Blue 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (€76.21 @ Mindfactory)
Case: NZXT H440 (White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (€137.71 @ Mindfactory)
Power Supply: be quiet! PURE POWER 9 400W 80+ Silver Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Total: €543.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-13 19:19 CEST+0200

Add an R9 480 for about €300 or a 1070 for €500.

If you're staying at 1080p, get the 480, if at 1440p go for whichever you have the money for, the 1070 will last longer at 1440p but upgrading GPUs is easy anyways, by the time the 480 can't handle 1440p reliably the 1070 won't be far ahead.

K.O.Kiki

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (€185.84 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (€127.04 @ Mindfactory)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (€86.97 @ Mindfactory)
Storage: Samsung 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€69.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€64.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 8GB XXX OC Video Card (€276.99 @ Mindfactory)
Case: NZXT Source 220 ATX Mid Tower Case (€49.00 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€92.42 @ Mindfactory)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (€97.72 @ Mindfactory)
Monitor: ViewSonic VX2457-MHD 23.6" 60Hz Monitor (€152.96 @ Mindfactory)
Total: €1203.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-13 19:34 CEST+0200

Can downgrade the SSD to a 120/128Gb model if you want, if it's just to hold the OS.

Wait 1-2 weeks for pricing on non-blower models of the RX 480 GPU. The monitor is a FreeSync model, which pairs with AMD GPUs.

Jdstaun

Cheers For both the builds guys, would be looking to go with a 1070 and 1440p as Digital has above, is there a specific 1070 I should be buying to go with this build and could you also recommend a suitable monitor for it? Also will need a wireless care for the pc is there a specific one I need to buy or will any card do?

Thanks!

Eoinmc97

Jdstaun wrote: »

Cheers For both the builds guys, would be looking to go with a 1070 and 1440p as Digital has above, is there a specific 1070 I should be buying to go with this build and could you also recommend a suitable monitor for it? Also will need a wireless care for the pc is there a specific one I need to buy or will any card do?

Thanks!

The EVGA, Gigabyte and MSI 1070s are the best IMO, plus they usually have better availability.
As for a wireless card, most mobos won't come with one stock but tou can pick up an 802.11ac Dual Band PCI-E Wifi Card for around €30

dunworth1

Jdstaun wrote: »

Cheers For both the builds guys, would be looking to go with a 1070 and 1440p as Digital has above, is there a specific 1070 I should be buying to go with this build and could you also recommend a suitable monitor for it? Also will need a wireless care for the pc is there a specific one I need to buy or will any card do?

Thanks!

regarding wifi you'd be much better off buying a set of homeplugs they turn your electrical wiring into a Ethernet cable

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/4273888/Trail/searchtext%3EHOMEPLUGS.htm

Jdstaun

Ok So I'm going to order soon enough now, just want to make sure I've everything sorted, trying to get a cable sorted so might not need to sort the wireless card but I'll deal with that later. Could ye have a look below and let me know if I'm missing anything?

(Can't post links as I am a new account)
CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (Mindfactory)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (Amazon De)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (Amazon De)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Mindfactory)
Storage: Western Digital Blue 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Amazon De)
Case: NZXT H440 (White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (Amazon De)
Power Supply: be quiet! PURE POWER 9 400W 80+ Silver Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Amazon De)
Video Card: 8192MB EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Active PCIe 3.0 x16 (Mindfactory)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (Mindfactory)

Would anyone have a recommendation for a monitor to go with this build? Or is the one linked above ok for it?

K.O.Kiki

The monitor I linked (ViewSonic VX2457) is a Freesync monitor, which is a technology that only works with AMD graphics cards.

Cheapest Nvidia G-Sync monitor is €312.

If you're going with a GTX 1070, I'd look at 120Hz or 144Hz monitors.