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I'm thinking about building my own PC from scratch for my 18th and i was wondering what people thought of the following setup: You must login or register to view this content.

I'm good with computers, however I'm a software guy, not a hardware guy so I was hoping that people could recommend some changes such as better parts

I'd love to hear any recommendations to change or add to the build! I'd preferably like to keep the budget under £1500 if possible though I'm looking to squeeze as much power out of the computer to last for a good few years without need of upgrading.

EDIT:
Computer usage: Gaming, Programming, Video Editing, Photoshop, Cinema 4D Renders and general day to day usage really.

Games: Anything from the almighty Steam library really and a few external games, but to name some specifics: DayZ, Arma 3, DotA2, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Portal 2, Battlefield 4 and League of Legends.

(I currently play DotA 2, Civ 5, Portal 2 and League of Legends on a i5 laptop with HD Graphics 4000 if that's worth mentioning, the others are planned games)

Programming software: Visual Studio (Windows Desktop) and IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.

It may be worth noting I often have around 10 windows open for multitasking.

16gb and GTX and 8 cores should be more than enough, especially when you build software and or multitask alot

Here's a revised version of your list You must login or register to view this content.

I left some parts like the sound card since you may do music production or may have another use which will benefit from having a sound card.

16GB of RAM doesn't currently provide a big performance boost like a better GPU so I put 8GB in which should be fine for gaming.

You must login or register to view this content. a good gaming setup that's plenty fast for needs

Yeah, I multitask a lot and my poor laptop can barely handle it half the time.



Basically anything in the almighty Steam library (Civ5, Arma 3, DotA2 and Portal 2 to name a few,) League of Legends and Battlefield 4.



Thanks, will definitely consider the changes



Thanks, I've got some time to decide on the final build so hopefully some more people will see this so I can collect even more ideas/popular opinions

Solid build, rather you go with what you speced out, or what someone provided.

For your thermal paste I recommend Arctic Silver 5 - You must login or register to view this content. Nice and cheap, very good and high recommend. Used in a lot of top build I've seen.

Nice cooler too that you picked out. I'm thinking about an AF cooler and if I decide on it, that's the one I'm getting along with Silver 5 paste.

Honestly though, if you don't plan to over clock your CPU, you don't need an AF cooler.

I always expected myself to overclock at some point so this time I decided to anticipate me wanting to do it a few months later

Smart way to plan your bid. :y:

Still HIGHLY recommend the paste I linked. It seems to be the one that is always recommend on /r/pcmasterrace.

Thanks, if it came from there then I have no doubts about it being good xD
As I said before I'm not a hardware guy, could you possibly explain why some people have recommended an Intel i5 over the AMD CPU I've chosen in my build?

I noticed they both run at 3.5GHz - though the AMD supports up to 4.0 based on some quick Googling - and that the i5 is a quad-core whilst the AMD is an octo-core.
Also noticed the price difference but that's not too much of a concern xD

When searching around a bit I noticed some people had chosen this over i7's, though I couldn't remember the numbers for the life of me :s