Help with gaming PC

[Yogibear]

Hi PCS Forums. Not been here since my last computer here.

Chassis & Display
Optimus Series: 15.6'' Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3630QM (2.40GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660M - 2.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
1st Hard Disk
120GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Wireless/Wired Networking
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® N135 802.11N (150Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
USB Options
3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Battery
Optimus Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
Power Cable
1 x UK Power Lead & 120W AC Adaptor
Keyboard Language
INTEGRATED UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE 60 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 2010 Professional Edition
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 1.3 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM

Looking for a bit of an upgrade here. In the form of a gaming desktop as I demote this laptop to my Uni Driver. My main priority is being able to get some reasonably high settings and 60+ fps minimum. If this is possible. Price range is 1000-1500. Don't need an OS. Would like it to have some good room for upgrading in the future if possible. So make your better judgement than mine on what compromises to make. Only need the computer not any peripherals. Priority is running games at good settings. Your input would be greatly appreciated

On a similar slightly related note, is PCS the best online retailer to buy from not for example the one whose website name is overclocking. If someone knows the pros and cons of each that would be very useful.
Again thankyou very much for any input.

 

[Spuff]

I bought my system from PCS and it was a good buy, and I've bought individual components from that other retailer and those were good buys.
I would choose to buy another system from PCS. I can't say that one is unambiguously better than the other but I would choose to buy another system from PCS. What I like about the PCS builder is the clarity and sensible selection of options. You know what PCS offer is carefully selected as the choices and it will all work nicely with each other.
None of the regular posters here would be regular posters if we thought people should buy systems from a different retailer.

 

[SlimCini]

£1500 without an OS won't get you 'reasonably high' fps... that affords you a 980ti which should get stonkingly high fps:

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache
Case
COOLERMASTER CM690 III ADVANCED CASE (GREEN)
Motherboard
ASUS® Z97-E: ATX, USB3.0, SATA 6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 Ti - 1 DVI, 1 HDMI, 3 DP
Free Item
FREE BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT with select GTX 9 Series GPUs! -Subject to T&Cs
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£109)
Processor Cooling
Super Quiet Titan DragonFly Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler (£19)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
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 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Windows 10 Upgrade
FREE Upgrade to Windows 10 with all Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 Purchases*
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,453.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-haswell-pc/b55ygX5JK4/

 

[Yogibear]

£1500 without an OS won't get you 'reasonably high' fps... that affords you a 980ti which should get stonkingly high fps:

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache
Case
COOLERMASTER CM690 III ADVANCED CASE (GREEN)
Motherboard
ASUS® Z97-E: ATX, USB3.0, SATA 6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 Ti - 1 DVI, 1 HDMI, 3 DP
Free Item
FREE BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT with select GTX 9 Series GPUs! -Subject to T&Cs
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£109)
Processor Cooling
Super Quiet Titan DragonFly Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler (£19)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
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 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Windows 10 Upgrade
FREE Upgrade to Windows 10 with all Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 Purchases*
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,453.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-haswell-pc/b55ygX5JK4/

Hey Slim thanks for replying! Read that over a few times, I thought for a moment you were saying I wasn't going to be able to get 60FPS with this budget haha. Would you help me through looking at each parts of the build, Ill try ask a few questions, sorry if they're stupid!
Is RAID worth doing? Will the power supply be enough? (Heard its a bottleneck sometimes) Does having the £5 wifi option affect LAN as for that price it seems silly not to. Which parts of the build in particular would you look at improving to avoid a bottleneck and conversely reducing without inducing a bottleneck and max/minimizing performance gain/loss.
Sorry about all the Questions! |Thanks
Oh also are there any cards coming out soon which may affect the price of the GPU


EDIT: Also my current highest FPS monitor is 60FPS so would you consider this overkill?

 

[keynes]

Hey Slim thanks for replying! Read that over a few times, I thought for a moment you were saying I wasn't going to be able to get 60FPS with this budget haha. Would you help me through looking at each parts of the build, Ill try ask a few questions, sorry if they're stupid!
Is RAID worth doing? Will the power supply be enough? (Heard its a bottleneck sometimes) Does having the £5 wifi option affect LAN as for that price it seems silly not to. Which parts of the build in particular would you look at improving to avoid a bottleneck and conversely reducing without inducing a bottleneck and max/minimizing performance gain/loss.
Sorry about all the Questions! |Thanks
Oh also are there any cards coming out soon which may affect the price of the GPU


EDIT: Also my current highest FPS monitor is 60FPS so would you consider this overkill?

Raid is not necessary for a gaming system, the psu would be more than enough for the spec posted but if you want to add a 2nd gpu you could consider a 1000w psu instead. You could add a wireless card but if you are connecting using an ethernet cable, do you need it? a pair of homeplugs will provide a more reliable connection than a wireless card. For a 1920x1080 resolution monitora gtx 980 ti is overkill

 

[Yogibear]

Raid is not necessary for a gaming system, the psu would be more than enough for the spec posted but if you want to add a 2nd gpu you could consider a 1000w psu instead. You could add a wireless card but if you are connecting using an ethernet cable, do you need it? a pair of homeplugs will provide a more reliable connection than a wireless card. For a 1920x1080 resolution monitora gtx 980 ti is overkill

You don't think convenience of maybe needing wifi is worth £5? What GPU would you recommend for a 1080 monitor then? Reckon I'd be better off getting a weaker one now then a 980Ti and upgrading to Higher in the future?

 

[keynes]

You don't think convenience of maybe needing wifi is worth £5? What GPU would you recommend for a 1080 monitor then? Reckon I'd be better off getting a weaker one now then a 980Ti and upgrading to Higher in the future?

If you are not going to use it I wouldn't add one. In my case the router is next to my desktop so don't see a reason to add a wireless card. For 1920x1080 the 390x seems to offer good value offering close performance compare to the gtx 980. Is it just gaming?

 

[Yogibear]

If you are not going to use it I wouldn't add one. In my case the router is next to my desktop so don't see a reason to add a wireless card. For 1920x1080 the 390x seems to offer good value offering close performance compare to the gtx 980. Is it just gaming?

How good would you say the 390X is? In terms of settings it'd support. Are AMD good for gaming