what components should I choose for my new gaming PC ?

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Hi,

Recently I bought a new PC from PC Specialist and it ran into problems three times in 1 1/2 months both the same issues that they said were fixed when they really weren't recently I asked for a refund and it was approved.

Now I am looking to buy another PC I was wondering what specification should I choose, I have chosen this specification and have put it below;

CPU: Intel Quad Core i7 4700 (3.8Ghz) 8MB Cache or Intel Quad Core i5 4670 (3.4Ghz) Which one is the best ?
Motherboard: ASUS H81M-E: Micro-ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory: 6GB KINGSTON DUAL DDR-3
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 660 - 2x DVI, HDMI,- 3D Vision
Case: InWIN GT1 BLACK GAMING CASE

Price: £549 with i5 and £610 with i7 processors.

These are the games I am looking to play; Battlefield 4 (Ultra, Multiplayer), I am looking to achieve around 80 FPS throughout the whole mach, World of Warcraft (Ultra, Raiding) around 40-50 FPS and modded Minecraft (Maxed, Multiplayer and around 120+ mods basically FTB - Feed the Beast)

I am looking for professional opinions and I cannot wait to read your reply's

Thanks, Framme

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Do you plan to buy a complete PC or are you also in a position to assemble a PC yourself? It's the better option, in general. Better value, more options, less useless things. If you can't build it yourself maybe some friends can help, otherwise you have to go with a preassembled one with a not so good price/performance ratio.

If you can afford it, your PC should also have a SSD. I wouln't want to miss that one, normal HDD only PCs feel pretty annoying to me.

i7 isn't required for gaming, hyperthreading doesn't do much there. Avoid the "K" CPU versions and the Z87 mainboards, if your budget is limited.

I'm not sure if the GTX 660 is still the best option in that price range, with all these new GPUs which appeared recently. Someone else might help you here.

I copied the following recommended configuration from a german computer forum (computerbase.de). It matches your budget, but the SSD comes at an extra cost.

Intel Core i5-4440 Boxed
_Alternativ: Intel Core i3-4130 Boxed
Gigabyte GA-H87-HD3
_Alternativ: ASUS H87-Pro (C2) oder ASRock B85M Pro4
8GB Crucial 1600MHz CL9
_Alternativ: 4GB Corsair 1333MHz CL9
R9 270X
_Alternativ: GTX 760
be quiet! Pure Power L8-CM 430W
_Alternativ: be quiet! System Power 7 450W oder Cooler Master G450M 450W
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1000GB
_Alternativ: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1000GB
LG GH24NS95
_Alternativ: LG BH16NS40
Corsair Carbide Series 200R
_Alternativ: BitFenix Shinobi oder Cougar Solution

Samsung SSD 840 Evo Series 120GB
_Alternativ: Plextor M5S 128GB oder OCZ Vertex 4 128GB

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Do you plan to buy a complete PC or are you also in a position to assemble a PC yourself? It's the better option, in general. Better value, more options, less useless things.
If you can afford it, your PC should also have a SSD. I wouln't want to miss that one, normal HDD only PCs feel pretty annoying to me.

I'm getting the PC made for me I feel that I don't have the experience to build one yet.

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I'm getting the PC made for me I feel that I don't have the experience to build one yet.

It's a lot easier than it was even 5 years ago, thanks to the massive increase in standards involved. I have a build at ~£700 if you can self-build, and there are plenty of tutorials around that cover the basics of building:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G43 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: GeIL EVO CORSA Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£60.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.94 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card (£169.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£47.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: OCZ ZT 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£62.98 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (£74.00 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £705.86
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-28 17:46 GMT+0000)

I've gone for the R9-270X TOXIC as it's a grest card for the price, though you could easily spend another £30-50 and get a gTX760, dependent on your needs. I've gone for a fully-modular PSU for space reasons, and the 200R case as it's a really impressive case at that price-point.

[n0cturnal]

It's a lot easier than it was even 5 years ago, thanks to the massive increase in standards involved.

Not sure what you think have changed in the last 5 years, feels pretty much the same for me as the last 15 years, nothing major has changed except for moving from PATA to SATA and not having to overclock using jumpers on the motherboard, the rest is basically the same as it has always been.

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15 years ago? I think software installations were more annoying, OS and drivers. Jumpers on HDDs to configure master/slave states could also cause confusion. Mechanical work is pretty much the same, except for those unhandy PATA cables.

Oh, and there are no more CPUs without heat spreader, therefor the risk to damage the CPU isn't existent any more.

[Nuckels]

15 years ago? I think software installations were more annoying, OS and drivers. Jumpers on HDDs to configure master/slave states could also cause confusion. Mechanical work is pretty much the same, except for those unhandy PATA cables.

Oh, and there are no more CPUs without heat spreader, therefor the risk to damage the CPU isn't existent any more.

Well unless you damage the mobo pins like a turd.

[Cyrops]

Well unless you damage the mobo pins like a turd.

Shit happens, pins can bend even on Mobo.