Budget gaming build opinion and suggestions

[MauroDiogo]

Greetings everyone.
I posted here a while back looking for some advice for a potential build. I decided to wait and save up for a bigger budget.

I'm now between £450/550 as my budget and my current build is a standard i5/8GB build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£155.94 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Asus H81M-E Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£36.50 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£137.12 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£44.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.12 @ Aria PC)
Total: £514.59
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-05 20:43 BST+0100

I'm looking for suggestions mainly in an alternative motherboard within the budget and GPU type. I just picked a random Radeon R9 270X from that list!
Also... anyone know of alternate nice, well ventilated cases that would support that mobo?

Thanks in advance guys!

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£163.14 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£24.98 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£60.32 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£58.79 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.70 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card (£129.98 @ Novatech)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£36.67 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £550.57
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-05 21:18 BST+0100

The EVO CPU heatsink is not a must but will let you overclock the CPU a fair bit.

Use the Amazon link for the EVO cooler.

[Drunkenvalley]

Some bloody black magic you're pulling there, Notarget. That's a pretty damn good build from what I see.

[Deleted]

I did tap into Mola Ram's powers to make it happen, thank you

[Deleted]

Yeah what Notarget did there doesn't get better with that budget.

[MauroDiogo]

I'm just repeating what others said but can't see the setup getting any better for the budget.
Notarget did exactly what I was hoping for. Polish up the "base build". Thanks a lot!

Will start ordering the pieces now!

[Deleted]

You're welcome, let us know how it all turns out

[MauroDiogo]

Also - Quick question but, I'm not planning on overclocking right away. Which means that I can skip on getting the cooler right now yeah?
And if I do intend to OC it further down the line just buy the cooler, install and OC it?

[Drunkenvalley]

Yes, you can.

[MauroDiogo]

Hi again!
Between writing this post and now I managed to order the Processor, Mobo and Graphics Card.
However... the memory in that list is now discontinued with the next cheap same one going for £68 on a different retailer.

What would be a good Memory alternative for the G.Skill one? I was looking around and I can't find Memory that is as fast as the G.Skill (2133Mhz) for around the same price.

EDIT: Just looked in Amazon (not listen in Pcpartpicker in the retailers list) but found the same G. Skill Memory but for £63.
And then there's this for £58 but only 1866Mhz: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...ls?ie=UTF8&me=

[Deleted]

Those 1866 from Amazon is perfectly fine.

Here are some 2133 for ~£60, not from Amazon though:

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_52026.html

[MauroDiogo]

The 1866's in comparison to the 2133 performance-wise, how much different would they be? Noticeable?

[Drunkenvalley]

RAM speeds are about the lowest performance gains possible. Most of the time higher RAM speeds are suggested it's simply lower RAM speeds are practically identical in price, or worse yet lower RAM speeds are higher in cost.