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Best 1,000-euro gaming build?

Sep 23, 2014 1:23AM PDT

Hello everyone. I'm trying to put together a decent custom PC on a budget of about 1,000 euros (just under 1,300 dollars or 800 pounds) - exclusively for gaming. I'd greatly appreciate suggestions from folks who know their way around the latest hardware.

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That changes every day.
Sep 23, 2014 1:28AM PDT

To get there we would have to build a spreadsheet and weigh value and cost of the day then redo every day.

This means that any answer today would be wrong tomorrow. That out of the way, head to Tomshardware to use their best value for the money articles to pick your CPU and GPU.

The rest have little effect on gaming.

Links follow.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269.html

Bob

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Core i5 and GTX 970 will be perfect
Sep 26, 2014 3:00AM PDT

Core i5 4th gen and GTX 970 will be perfect rest u can visit the link given below for ,more discussion and advise

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Links to follow.
Sep 26, 2014 3:03AM PDT
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Addendum
Sep 23, 2014 1:43AM PDT

Forgot to mention this would include a 1980x1080 monitor! (preferably by Samsung) I'm willing to go as high as 1,100 euros that included.