1080p Ultra gaming (£1000 budget)

[clancy2k]

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4460 (3.2GHz) 6MB Cache

Case
CORSAIR SPEC-03 COMPACT GAMING CASE - RED LED

Motherboard
ASUS® Z97-P: ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs

Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970 - 1 DVI, 1 mHDMI, 3 mDP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item: FREE BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT Game with Select GTX 9 Series GPUs!

1st Hard Disk
500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW) (Don't need more storage than this, have an external hard drive.)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY

Processor Cooling
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler (£29)

Extra Case Fans
2 x 12CM Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof) (£9)

Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)

Price: £932

Hey, I'm configuring a PC for a friend with a budget of £1000 for 1080p Ultra gaming on a 144hz monitor for games like Bf4, GTA V, Alien: Isolation and similar games. Is there anything I should upgrade, such as CPU? I presume that it won't bottleneck so I doubt it needs to be better. Thanks

 

[keynes]

The only way to improve it is by upgrading the gpu but that takes it above £1000

 

[clancy2k]

The only way to improve it is by upgrading the gpu but that takes it above £1000

I heard that a 980 is overkill for 1080p gaming. Do you think there would be any improvements over a 970 at 1080p? Getting 120fps up from 100fps doesn't justify spending the extra money i'd say.

 

[keynes]

Might be overkill for current games but provides more futureproof and offers a bit more VRAM, it seems newer/more demanding games require more VRAM

 

[Utilize]

I heard that a 980 is overkill for 1080p gaming. Do you think there would be any improvements over a 970 at 1080p? Getting 120fps up from 100fps doesn't justify spending the extra money i'd say.

If you're using a 60Hz monitor, any FPS over 60 is useless because your screen simply can't display more than 60FPS. It depends on which games you're playing really. If they're very demanding, you might want to consider a 980 but if they run at 100FPS at max settings on a 970 then there's really no reason to spend the extra money. I always limit my FPS to 60, since anything above that is useless, with MSI Afterburner. This will let your GPU run cooler as it's not working as hard as it needs to, therefore increasing life span.