Budget PC build for gaming, quick opinions...

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[jacobpalmer05]

Depends what games she plans on playing, a GTX 970 would be overkill for most games. Benchmarks currently put it at around the third best card available.

I have personally been looking at builds around £600 and I have an i5-4690k, Asus Z97-K motherboard and would be looking at a 280X.

That would be my suggestion, would also be nice to hear from someone a little more in the know.

Total below is : £701 delivered from Scan

Edited by jacobpalmer05 on Thursday 18th December 15:07

ETA: The 970 wont fit in that case.

Edited by jacobpalmer05 on Thursday 18th December 18:43

[T1berious]

Female PC Gamer?

Wow!

[Jimmy No Hands]

That's a budget build? God I better start saving for my planned January upgrades..

[JoeMk1]

MSI GTX 970 is shorter (270mm)

[HewManHeMan]

Sorry to hijack, but would be 970 be much better than the 770?

Seems good value, if so.

[130R]

Something like this maybe?

Intel Core i5 4590 Retail - £149.94
MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming 3G Twin Frozr IV - £177.94
Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 Motherboard - £58.76
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD - £58.61
Seagate 1TB HDD - £41.87
Corsair CXM Builder series 500W PSU - £44.99
Corsair Vengeance LP RAM 8GB - £65.76
Corsair Carbide Series 200R Case - £55.44
Lite On x24 DVD Writer - £11.15

Total: £664.46

[130R]

HewManHeMan said:

Sorry to hijack, but would be 970 be much better than the 770?

Seems good value, if so.

It's about 25% faster I think. So if your 770 is struggling then definitely a good upgrade, if it's not struggling then something faster will be along in no time

[HewManHeMan]

130R said:

HewManHeMan said:

Sorry to hijack, but would be 970 be much better than the 770?

Seems good value, if so.

It's about 25% faster I think. So if your 770 is struggling then definitely a good upgrade, if it's not struggling then something faster will be along in no time

Not really struggling. I just want more stuff : )

It's an illness!

[Foliage]

HewManHeMan said:

Not really struggling. I just want more stuff : )

It's an illness!

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/2014-vga-charts/16-Battlefield-4-1080p,3608.html

[T1berious]

I thought the 970 is the new giant slayer at it's price point? I'm after one after xmas.