PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
| Type | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor | £192.30 @ More Computers |
| Motherboard | ASRock Fatal1ty H97 Performance ATX LGA1150 Motherboard | £79.99 @ Amazon UK |
| Memory | Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory | £39.78 @ Ebuyer |
| Storage | Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | £49.24 @ Amazon UK |
| Storage | Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | £39.60 @ CCL Computers |
| Video Card | MSI Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card | £269.27 @ Aria PC |
| Case | NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case | £57.41 @ Aria PC |
| Power Supply | Antec High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply | £58.78 @ Amazon UK |
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts | ||
| Total | £786.37 | |
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-21 15:07 BST+0100 |
Build includes a Xeon E3 (which is essentially an i7 without the integrated GPU) and the new AMD R9 380.
With this, you should be able to handle relatively heavy programming without much of a problem, as well as maxing out just about any game at 1080p with very good FPS.
There's almost no reason to go for an AMD CPU at this budget since Intel's single-core performance is simply so much better compared to AMD. There's not a single AMD processor which outperforms the Xeon in almost any software you work with.
I also included a 1TB HDD and a 120GB SSD. I would strongly recommend you to use the SSD as a boot drive and save a couple of your most played games/most used software, and store the less important files in the 1TB HDD.
You could go for a GTX 970 (Nvidia) at this budget, but considering the R9 380 has very identical performance to the GTX 970 and it has 4GB extra VRAM while being about the same price, I opted for this card instead.
The build has a Black/Red colour scheme.