Do you want to overclock? If not the Unlocked CPU and AIO liquid are going to waste.

Not sure how much that comes to what you have listed but that's a solid parts list if you are wanting to overclock.

GTA V might be poorly optimized and we cannot give an estimate as the game isn't released yet, DayZ is poorly optimized, Call of Duty will run fine.

The GPU is great however I'd consider waiting for the new AMD Cards to come out to see if there are some better counter parts.

-DCFC wrote Do you want to overclock? If not the Unlocked CPU and AIO liquid are going to waste.

Not sure how much that comes to what you have listed but that's a solid parts list if you are wanting to overclock.

GTA V might be poorly optimized and we cannot give an estimate as the game isn't released yet, DayZ is poorly optimized, Call of Duty will run fine.

The GPU is great however I'd consider waiting for the new AMD Cards to come out to see if there are some better counter parts.

I will not be overclocking with this build.

Also, to be honest DayZ will not run as good anyway due to it still being in Beta. So as long as it runs at least 30 FPS I'll be happy.

GTA V will hopefully run ok. Like you said it isn't out yet so we cannot tell. The specs don't look too demanding so it should run smooth on medium settings, any higher than that will be a bonus.

And CoD: AW, on average how much FPS do you think I'd be able to get?

Do you think I should get a better graphics card? Like a EVGA GTX 970 FTW for like 50 GBP more?

Okay if your not overclocking either give me a few hours to come up with a build as im out atm and on my phone. Unlesss someone else makes you a build before im back but you'd wanna drop the unlocked cpu cooler and you may be able to then sli the 970's within budget or add another larger capacity SSD. You could even get a Xeon.

It doesnt really matter theres very minimal difference between the different versions just differnt clock speeds and different ways of cooling like i said id wait it out for the new amd GPU's to come out.

If you decide to not wait and get the 970 and spend extra for a different version of the 970 then get either the Msi twin Frozr, gigabyte g1, evga ftw or the Asus Strix. Theres many topics in this section asking the differences between the 970's so just have a look round

Pretty similar to my build actually.

Well power supply, case and cpu is the same.


The new amd cards won't be here until June at the earliest so going with a 970 is still a great choice in terms of price to performance but you could also pick up a 290x for that price which performs slightly better.

Drop the cooler and swap the 4690k for a 4460. If you're not overclocking, the unlocked CPU and the cooler are just wasted money.

Alexyy wrote Pretty similar to my build actually.

Well power supply, case and cpu is the same.


The new amd cards won't be here until June at the earliest so going with a 970 is still a great choice in terms of price to performance but you could also pick up a 290x for that price which performs slightly better.

oh right didn't think the cards would be coming out that late tbh.