It's been a while since I looked at PC parts, so I'm not up to-date with new parts and such. But for his birthday my cousin is got lots of money to put towards a proper gaming rig. I'm gonna help him build it (which will be a learning experience for both of us :v:) He'll also be using it for some video-editing and light rendering.
His budget is about £750, which needs to buy everything needed, including the monitor. But his parents are buying the GPU as his present to him, so that doesn't need to be figured into the budget. Although suggestions on GPUs would be welcome.
I'm thinking:
GPU [url=http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/nvidiageforcegraphicscards/nvidiagtx760keplerseries/gv-n760oc-4gd.html]Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 OC 4GB[/url] [i]I'm thinking this is overkill, but his parents are buying whatever. A suggestion for a better/cheaper graphics card would be nice.[/i]
Motherboard bundle [url=http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/motherboardbundles/mbb-44308b.html]this motherboard bundle[/url] Intel i5 4430, 8GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Memory, Intel B85M Chipset Motherboard. £259.98
HDD [url=http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/sata2tbto2.5tb/wd20efrx.html]Western Digital Red 2TB[/url] £87.98
SSD [url=http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/solidstate/upto120gb/oczssd2-2agt40g.html[/url]OCZ New Agility 2 40GB SSD refurbished[/url] £27.59
Case [url=http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/cases/cases/nv-692a-kwn5.html]Cooler Master CM 690 II nVidia edition[/url] [del]He's pretty set on this case, although I might be able to persuade him to get a different one if it makes sense. £96.79[/del] He's bought it now
PSU [url=http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/powersupplies/ocz-zs750w-uk.html]OCZ ZS Series 750W 80Plus Bronze[/url] Pretty sure this is powerful enough, but is it overkill? £64.58
Optical drive [url=http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/opticaldrives/satadvdwriters/sh-224dbbebe.html]Basic disc drive[/url] £13.99
OS [url=http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/software/operatingsystems/wn7-00403.html]Windows 8 64bit OEM[/url] £76.98
Monitor [url=http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/desktop-pc-monitors/monitor-projectors/pc-monitors/lg-22en33s-full-hd-21-5-led-monitor-21307842-pdt.html]LG 22EN33S 21.5" Monitor[/url] £94.99
Which comes to £722.88
He'll also need mouse, keyboard and speakers, but I've got some spare ones that will do for now. If there's anything I've missed let me know. Also I'm pretty sure that's all good and compatible.
750 Watts is a good bit overkill. The Video card uses 170W, so your total system TDP is around 370 Watts. You should go up from that, but as little as 550 or even 500 would be fine.
Are you sure? I used one of those power supply calculator websites and it came out at like 700.
Although saying that I might have changed some parts since I calculated it.
Anything else to tweak on the list?
Anyone? Sorry to be impatient, but he's really eager to start building it, and would be good to get the parts soon so I can help him on the weekend.
I just went onto pcpartpicker just to varify (even though there's no way your total TDP is even close to 700). Your TDP is ~350 Watts. The calculator you used probably nearly doubled your TDP because PSUs preform most effeciently at ~60% load. This means that the optimal route is to get an 80 plus platinum PSU that is 40% higher than your TDP; this however will only save you (and by you, I mean your parents) a few dollars a year on your electricity bill from getting just a reasonable amount of watts above your TDP.
Cool, that makes sense.
He's going to get the stuff (and a different PSU) tonight if it all looks ok
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