cheap prebuilt i7 pc - £470

[dharmaone]

would this do if I pop a gtx760 in there?

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00FSDOBK4/

 

I don't mind building from parts, but definitely can't match this price for an i7 build

[numerobis]

This depends on the PSU... there is no info about it - and no info about the other parts. If it is only a cheap noname 300W a GTX760 could be too much...

And i think the price is not really cheap - they will have selected the appropriate components. (cheap case and PSU, H81 chipset, boxed cooler, 8GB DDR3 1333MHz)

 

Self build with cheap parts:

i7 4770 = £220

Board MSI H81M-E33 = £35

Kingston HyperX blu. black XMP DIMM kit 8GB, DDR3-1600, CL9-9-9 = £36

HDD Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB, SATA 6Gb/s = £42

Windows 8.1 x64 OEM = £67

DVDRW = £12

Case Foxconn TLA397, 400W ATX = £35

 

=£447

 

( from http://skinflint.co.uk )

Edited November 19, 2013 by numerobis

[dharmaone]

man, that's some great data, thanks!

 

What improvements would you recommend if I were to spend £100-300 more? (from skinflint). Maybe a haswell hackintosh compatible mobo too?

[numerobis]

- a good PSU (i.e. Seasonic, Corsair), maybe 600W+ if you plan to add a gtx760 or bigger with no or light cpu overclocking)

- a better case with enough room for a tower cooler with 120mm or better 140mm fan

- a better cooler

- a board with B85 chipset or better (Z87)

- at least 16GB RAM (2x8GB)

- Win 7 or 8.1 PRO

- a 4770K if overlocking is an option for you (then you need at least a B85 or H87 board if the manufacturer supports overclocking for these boards - or a Z87 board )

- SSD

Edited November 20, 2013 by numerobis

[Dimitris Tolios]

Think only Z chipsets support O/C...some earlier BIOS versions allowed it with B/H for LGA 1150 (newer Haswell i-cores), but me thinks intel issued an ultimatum and newer BIOS versions don't allow it. Plus most cheap B or H chipset based mobos, exactly cause those were not really aimed towards overclocking, have weak mosfets that will do fine @ stock speeds, but will probably struggle and even fail as CPU clocks and vCore goes up (overclocked CPUs might consume close or more than double the power of stock ones).

 

A single 760, even with an overclocked CPU (i7) will do fine with a quality 500-550W PSU.

Those are hard to come by really cheap, unless you shop around and/or wait for deals.

Real consumption will be in the sub 200W range for normal modeling, to or a bit above 400W with overclocked CPU and/or GPU, but almost nothing does 100% on both CPU and GPU at the same time.

[numerobis]

Think only Z chipsets support O/C...some earlier BIOS versions allowed it with B/H for LGA 1150 (newer Haswell i-cores), but me thinks intel issued an ultimatum and newer BIOS versions don't allow it.

yes, you're right... i think intel fixed it at least with the C2 stepping. And the z87 boards are really not that expensive... so they would be clearly the better choice for overclocking, even if the it would still be possibe with the cheaper chipsets.