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hi
i want a gaming pc. i previously had knowledge on pcs but no longer know the best parts so i decided to ask this website. I have £1500 for the pc itself and an additional £350 for peripherals (mech kb, mouse, headset, monitor). i would also like a orange/white theme (going to call it creamsicle) so orange parts are preferred. also i want to avoid ASUS and NVIDIA because asus stuff is unreliable and nvidia are liers. i also want leds and a case with a window.

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With that budget, and a refusal to buy NVidia, I'd go for the 290X 8GB GPU. If not that, then the GTX 980 of your choice.

EDIT: Sapphire should have an orange cooler'd GPU.

Gigabyte do orange motherboards, so a Z97 from them I guess.
Avexir do Orange LED memory, so a CL9 1866 kit from them, or a 2133/2400 CL10 16GB kit of that.
 

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Asus products are unreliable? I've had better experiences with their stuff than most others I've tried.
 
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I assume your are buying from the UK. Here is a orange themed build. Not necessarily the cheapest but you have a color preference.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£260.34 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 280L 122.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£80.34 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£121.97 @ Dabs)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£117.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£73.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£75.97 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290X 4GB Tri-X Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) (£298.42 @ More Computers)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290X 4GB Tri-X Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) (£298.42 @ More Computers)
Case: NZXT H440 (Orange/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£84.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex Gold 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£114.90 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1526.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-02 21:33 GMT+0000


You could also go for a 295X2, its 100 pounds cheaper but not orange. You can also switch the wants on that radiator with some TY-143

 
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Damn that's a nice looking pc and I am normally the guy not interested in aesthetics that much but looking at functionality
 

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OP I would like to make a suggestion. Move some more £ from your build to peripherals and get yourself a nice 1440p monitor. Crossfire R9 290x is overkill for 1080p.
 

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OP I would like to make a suggestion. Move some more £ from your build to peripherals and get yourself a nice 1440p monitor. Crossfire R9 290x is overkill for 1080p.
if you read original post you'd see have 350 quid for the peripherals. likely gonna grab a chinese knockoff 1440p panel off eBay and a corsair keyboard (the one that does all the colours of the rainbow)+logitech mouse

nice build you linked but not a big fan of that next chassis because its plastic. i will be waiting for the white (or maybe silver) version of the phanteks EVOLV ATX for my pc because the h440 is overused and the evolv is damn good looking.

Asus products are unreliable? I've had better experiences with their stuff than most others I've tried.
only boards that have ever died on me are asus. asus is the only brand that took 1 year of back and forth RMAs to get me a good board. i have a long history with asus and its not good. i have msi and even biostar boards that are almost 10 years old that are still kicking but every asus has died.

With that budget, and a refusal to buy NVidia, I'd go for the 290X 8GB GPU. If not that, then the GTX 980 of your choice.

EDIT: Sapphire should have an orange cooler'd GPU.

Gigabyte do orange motherboards, so a Z97 from them I guess.
Avexir do Orange LED memory, so a CL9 1866 kit from them, or a 2133/2400 CL10 16GB kit of that.
i see that ATI is hosting an event, may hold out a bit and see if they release a new series of graphic card. from my findings the 2 series is a year old.
 
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The only plastic parts on the H440 are the colored parts, the rest is all steel, but yes it is very over used and has shit front intake. Super restrictive.
 

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i was talking about that nzxt phantom someone linked. I'm aware the h440 is metal but it is used so much and there is a razor version which makes me dislike it even more.
The only plastic parts on the H440 are the colored parts, the rest is all steel, but yes it is very over used and has shit front intake. Super restrictive.
 

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i see that ATI is hosting an event, may hold out a bit and see if they release a new series of graphic card. from my findings the 2 series is a year old.

ATi died 6 years ago, let it go. ;) But yes, the 3xx series is planned for Q2 2015 iirc.
 

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ATi died 6 years ago, let it go. ;) But yes, the 3xx series is planned for Q2 2015 iirc.

That's what I've been reading. Q2 this year and if the rumored specs are true for the R9 390x then it will be a beast and a single GPU should easily handle 1440p. Even the 380x should be a little better than a 290x due to an improvement in efficiency and if nothing else it should drive down the price of the 290x some until surplus inventory dries up.
 
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hi
i want a gaming pc. i previously had knowledge on pcs but no longer know the best parts so i decided to ask this website. I have £1500 for the pc itself and an additional £350 for peripherals (mech kb, mouse, headset, monitor). i would also like a orange/white theme (going to call it creamsicle) so orange parts are preferred. also i want to avoid ASUS and NVIDIA because asus stuff is unreliable and nvidia are liers. i also want leds and a case with a window.

yours truly,
mexicanscoper69
Ok then lets see what we can do for you, I already see you do not want the NZXT Phantom case which sadly was going to be the first case I suggest for that color scheme. In general an orange case is going to be a hard find that isn't orange and black so I would suggest a white case with orange fans and lighting like the following setup.

Corsair Air 540 Case
i5 4690K
Corsair H100i
Gigabyte Z97 SOC (Picked for color scheme)
Kingston HyperX Fury 8gb (2x4gb) 1866 White (Went with white for color options and a lack of orange memory I could find)
Sapphire TRI-X R9 290X X2 (2 of them for your machine)
Corsair RM 850Watt Gold PSU
Samsung 840 Evo 250gb SSD
1tb Western Digital 7200RPM HDD
BitFenix Spectre Orange LED 140mm fan (3 of them for the case LED's to be orange)

Total ~£1,440.34

A couple of notes, you can add an i7 4790K but I feel its unnecessary for gaming and wastes money as it really does not have a difference over an i5 (Hyper threading rarely helps games even much) or you can even upgrade the size of the SSD to fill the budget if wanted. The case was chosen for a white theme as I was trying to find something you could fit a nice assortment of parts and would help your theme shine through a bit but orange cases normally are few and far apart sadly (I found a few but most seemed cheap quality).

As for the £350 for other peripherals, get yourself a nice 1440p monitor, a inexpensive gaming keyboard from corsair or Razer (As contradictory as that shounds), same with the mouse, and then the headset comes down to how much your want to spend on it out of the rest of the budget as they can go as cheap or expensive as you want (Generally I prefer Tritton).

Hope this helps
 
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850w with 2 x 290x would be cutting it close. I honestly thing for 80 pounds more my build is a lot better value (1000w psu, 16gb ram (and it's even orange :) ) , 3tb hdd, i7) the case I won't comment since its a personal thing
 
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850w with 2 x 290x would be cutting it close. I honestly thing for 80 pounds more my build is a lot better value (1000w psu, 16gb ram (and it's even orange :) ) , 3tb hdd, i7) the case I won't comment since its a personal thing
Well first, no its not really cutting it close as I know people who have used Gold rated 750 watts PSU's with 2 290X's so unless you have your CPU and GPU's both overclocked to the limits a 750 is enough with 800+ being the recommended.

While some of the components you have are better, its also from a random assortment of sites instead of just one which would mean he would have to purchase from tons of retailers. 1000Watt PSU is overkill and unneeded also for this so he can save a couple of bucks and go down a notch. 16gb of ram in orange (Forgot about Ares series had a Orange set) however 16gb is also unnecessary for even a gaming rig though I wont argue that it might be better in the end to have more but the set I selected was higher speed (And a little white on the inside can help with the look of a crème sickle). The 3tb HDD is also nice if he needs the extra storage but he could decide how much he needs in the end and if its worth the extra money. The i7 is also worthless for gaming as I stated before even in situations where games are heavily threaded but I had put he can upgrade for about a little bit more.

Also bear in mind that I had also included 3 fans that were for the looks (Orange LED fans) which is why mine went up a little bit more. You can swap in some of the parts you have selected from Amazon uk without the fans and the price would be pretty close. Budgeting out unnecessary buys from the build will help increase the value of what he can cram inside and help with adding things for his looks which is why I didn't select parts like an i7, bigger HDD/SSD, and more ram.
 
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Well first, no its not really cutting it close as I know people who have used Gold rated 750 watts PSU's with 2 290X's so unless you have your CPU and GPU's both overclocked to the limits a 750 is enough with 800+ being the recommended.

While some of the components you have are better, its also from a random assortment of sites instead of just one which would mean he would have to purchase from tons of retailers. 1000Watt PSU is overkill and unneeded also for this so he can save a couple of bucks and go down a notch. 16gb of ram in orange (Forgot about Ares series had a Orange set) however 16gb is also unnecessary for even a gaming rig though I wont argue that it might be better in the end to have more but the set I selected was higher speed (And a little white on the inside can help with the look of a crème sickle). The 3tb HDD is also nice if he needs the extra storage but he could decide how much he needs in the end and if its worth the extra money. The i7 is also worthless for gaming as I stated before even in situations where games are heavily threaded but I had put he can upgrade for about a little bit more.

Also bear in mind that I had also included 3 fans that were for the looks (Orange LED fans) which is why mine went up a little bit more. You can swap in some of the parts you have selected from Amazon uk without the fans and the price would be pretty close. Budgeting out unnecessary buys from the build will help increase the value of what he can cram inside and help with adding things for his looks which is why I didn't select parts like an i7, bigger HDD/SSD, and more ram.

Actually with no overclock 750W is the minimum and with overclock 930+ is recommended at full load (GPU+CPU). Also lower load = less heat and noise + higher efficiency (it peaks at 50% load and goes down) I personally dont see the problem of ordering from different sites if it's cheaper and shipping is included in the price. You pay less then double the price for triple the capacity and unless he uses IGP or does memory benchmarks elusively ram speed makes no difference while capacity does, especially when multitasking. I agree that the i7 may not make a big difference when gaming, but just change that to an i5 and my and your system are the same price. Also TY-143 - 7 pounds including shipping and that thing is a monster

http://www.amazon.co_uk/dp/B009QGHQ1K/?tag=tec053-21
 
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Actually with no overclock 750W is the minimum and with overclock 930+ is recommended at full load (GPU+CPU). Also lower load = less heat and noise + higher efficiency (it peaks at 50% load and goes down) I personally dont see the problem of ordering from different sites if it's cheaper and shipping is included in the price. You pay less then double the price for triple the capacity and unless he uses IGP or does memory benchmarks elusively ram speed makes no difference while capacity does, especially when multitasking. I agree that the i7 may not make a big difference when gaming, but just change that to an i5 and my and your system are the same price. Also TY-143 - 7 pounds including shipping and that thing is a monster

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009QGHQ1K/?tag=tec053-21
Under GPGPU load with near max fan speed on a reference cooler (Unrealistic load/settings) the GPU will consume ~300watts. Add in a second under the same load that is ~600watts total from GPU's though that is again using GPGPU which games will not hit especially when more than 1 card is involved. But using that and the i5 4690K which at stock consumes a bit over 100watts at load that is about 700watts. Factoring in overclocking on the CPU would bump that number if you go to about 4.5+ would equal anywhere from 150-180watts now from the CPU at load which would exceed the 750watts. But again that is 100% GPGPU load and CPU load at the same time which again is unrealistic and going to be an achievement if hit. Even factoring in overclocked models of the GPU and CPU at a max overclock its doubtful it would get near the 850watt range even under an unrealistic load.

Heres a couple of examples I googled:
http://www.eteknix.com/4k-gaming-showdown-amd-r9-290x-crossfire-vs-nvidia-gtx-780-ti-sli/13/
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/sapphire-r9-290x-vapor-x-8gb-cf-review/18/

As far as ram and capacity, speed is not too important but mine is 8gb which is generally enough for a gaming rig. Even my machine barely hits 8gb running games and multiple things at the same time though I will give you capacity might be better in this case for the long run.

As far as ordering from other sites, its generally easier to order from one site or two and not a ton even if you save a couple of bucks mostly just because of shipping times and the possibility of problems/returns arising hence why I normally just stick with one site for suggestions. If they want to shop around and get a better deal on parts that's great but the suggestion was more about the parts in general and keeping in the budget not that this site has every deal being the best price in town. Also amazon does price match as I recall so he might be able to swing that in :).
 

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for a major overhoul like you want. I allways think of what prices changes the most, thats Ram. So I find the Ram I want, because prices on CPU,Mb dosent jump up and down. Can you find all that you want in 1 shop, that makes it easy to RMA should you be unlucky, otherwise you have to find the receipt which can take a long time, if you bourght from 7 shops to save 20 pounds.
 

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for a major overhoul like you want. I allways think of what prices changes the most, thats Ram. So I find the Ram I want, because prices on CPU,Mb dosent jump up and down. Can you find all that you want in 1 shop, that makes it easy to RMA should you be unlucky, otherwise you have to find the receipt which can take a long time, if you bourght from 7 shops to save 20 pounds.
in gmail you can search and find emails (like receipts). its a new feature but really innovate/
 
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Video Card(s) AMD Radeon 6900XT / Intel HD 4400
Storage 2.5TB SSDs + 4TB HDD / Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB
Display(s) 34" LG Ultrawide / 12.5 " 1080p IPS Touchscreen
Case Fractal Design R6 / Lenovo X240
Audio Device(s) Onboard / Onboard
Power Supply Enermax REVOLUTION87+ 1000W / Lenovo 40W
Mouse Razer Basilisk X
Keyboard Dell Business Multimedia Keyboard
Software Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
Benchmark Scores Chicken Invaders 5 @125+ FPS
in gmail you can search and find emails (like receipts). its a new feature but really innovate/


but yeah plus you can save a copy to any cloud storage that you use for safe keeping
 

mexicanscoper69

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thanks guys for build suggest i will wait a week and likely modify a build off what you guys gave me
maybe even get the all white asus board lmao
 
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System Name Desktop / Laptop
Processor AMD Ryzen R7 5600x / Intel i5-4200U
Motherboard ASUS TUF B550-Plus / Lenovo MB
Cooling Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 / Stock
Memory Corsair Vengeance 2x16GB DDR 3800 / 8GB DDR3-1600MHz
Video Card(s) AMD Radeon 6900XT / Intel HD 4400
Storage 2.5TB SSDs + 4TB HDD / Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB
Display(s) 34" LG Ultrawide / 12.5 " 1080p IPS Touchscreen
Case Fractal Design R6 / Lenovo X240
Audio Device(s) Onboard / Onboard
Power Supply Enermax REVOLUTION87+ 1000W / Lenovo 40W
Mouse Razer Basilisk X
Keyboard Dell Business Multimedia Keyboard
Software Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
Benchmark Scores Chicken Invaders 5 @125+ FPS
Dont forget to post pictures of the build :)
 
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System Name Vegos Whispering Merlin
Processor from 7980XE @4,8GHz to 7740 @5,4GHz, all delided + custom IHS
Motherboard EVGA DARK
Cooling lots of BitsPower, , lots of HWLabs, eloop, Mayhems aurora
Memory 32GB Galax HOF OCE 3800 15/16/16/36
Video Card(s) SLI HOF 1080Ti @2100MHz
Storage Intel 900P 280GB + Storage 1,2TB P3520 & 2TB P4500
Display(s) Predator 144Hz 27" IPS
Case Caselabs Merling SM8
Audio Device(s) Razer HS + Razer Leviatan
Power Supply EVGA T2 1600W
Mouse Logitech MX Master for work and Razer Lancehead for gaming
Keyboard Razer Ornata Chroma
Software W10Pro
Benchmark Scores One GPU: www.3dmark.com/spy/3203275 SLI: www.3dmark.com/spy/3460940 www.3dmark.com/fs/15137359
remove gb and saphire products from your pc if you are going for long term use.

also get nvidia, they may have lied about 1 spec of 1 card but amd has better and cheaper solution now in stock and they wait to get rid of old stock using guys like you
 
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