Guidance on gaming desktop

[Halgalad]

Hi

I'm looking for some help on setting up a gaming desktop.

I'd like something thats capable of playing newer games on medium to high settings, streaming media (mainly Netflix) and handling multiple displays. I generally don't do any photo/video/media editing. I'd also like to setup a spec which has a certain amount of longevity to it

Games I'd be looking at currently would be Civ VI, Total War: Warhammer 2 (and the other newer total war titles), World of Warcraft, Football Manager, Planet Coaster, GTA V and other similar titles.

Hard budget is £1400 (with maybe a tenners wiggle room if too good to miss!) In terms of a setup, I've heard good things about having a small SSD as a boot drive, with a HDD for the rest of my rubbish!

Thanks in advance

Hal

Edit:

I've come up with this, coming out at £1399. Is there anything which should be amended/changed in the expert opinion of the forum?

Case: GAME MAX FALCON BLACK GAMING CASE (RGB LED)

Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™i5 Six Core Processor i5-8400 (2.8GHz) 9MB Cache
Motherboard: ASUS® PRIME Z370-P: ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM): 16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2x8GB)
Graphics Card: 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1070 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!

1st Hard Disk: 1TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 32MB CACHE
M.2 SSD Drive: 256GB SAMSUNG PM961 M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 2800MB/R, 1100MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive: 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply: CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable: 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling: CoolerMaster Hyper 212X (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste: STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Extra Case Fans: 1x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof)

Sound Card: ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking: 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options: MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS

Operating System: Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Single Licence
Operating System Language: United Kingdom - English Language
Windows 10 Multi-language recovery image on DVD (£1)

Warranty: 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery: STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time: Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days

 

[Oussebon]

It looks good.

For reasons I can guess at but can't really be bothered to type out, the GTX 1080 is currently only £29 more than a GTX 1070.

If you're going to buy a 1070 you might as well buy a 1080 for that money.

The spec looks good and well suited to what you want it for.

You could claw back £10 by going with the Titan CPU cooler, which is more than fine for a stock i5.

If you don't actually need the DVD drive, you can always ditch it.

 

[Halgalad]

It looks good.

For reasons I can guess at but can't really be bothered to type out, the GTX 1080 is currently only £29 more than a GTX 1070.

If you're going to buy a 1070 you might as well buy a 1080 for that money.

The spec looks good and well suited to what you want it for.

You could claw back £10 by going with the Titan CPU cooler, which is more than fine for a stock i5.

If you don't actually need the DVD drive, you can always ditch it.

That is great, thank you very much. I think I will go for the Titan cooler and the GTX 1080!

Thanks again Oussebon.

 

[rtho]

Not sure if you need it, but a WiFi card for about £10+ depending on what you choose would be good and installed by PCS with the drivers etc.