New PC Help?

[Y2K]

Hey folks! My 1yr old PC that I built from the ground up & nutured into a shiny Gaming Machine has died today due to a massive overdose of electricity & forces of nature...

So now like the faithfull gamer, I am, I must now go on a quest to find a new PC...

Basically I would like something with Dual Graphics, a Quad Core & hopefully 6GB's of RAM with a Sound Card...

Can you guys please help me or advise me on what to put into my new PC please?

My Budgets around R17k-R20k.

Thanks!

[SYNERGY]

Expenditure limit please

[Y2K]

Expenditure limit please

I have a budget of R17k or a lil under R20k.

Nice setup btw. If you dont mind me asking, how much would something like that cost?

[PostmanPot]

Could get an Intel i7 Nehalem system for that (latest Intel system with DDR3 RAM).

But tbh I'd go for a Q9550 + DDR2 RAM system, will yield similar performance.

[Y2K]

Could get an Intel i7 Nehalem system for that (latest Intel system with DDR3 RAM).

But tbh I'd go for a Q9550 + DDR2 RAM system, will yield similar performance.

Awesome, my biggest problem is WHERE to buy from though?

[PostmanPot]

R3800 Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 - quad core 2.83ghz box cpu , with VT+TXT , 45nm , Lga775 , 1333mhz fsb - 4x64k L1+ 2 x shared 6mb L2 cache - with EDB , EiST, EM64T , WDE , ASC , SMA , ADMB, 128bit SSE4
R2500 ASUS P5Q Delux , support crossfire-x ( 8x+8x+4X ) , with Dual BIOS , EPU-6 ( Energy Processing Unit ) , on-board on/off switch , 16-phase Power Design , copper heatpipe to south-bridge ; intel Quad-core / Core2 / Core2-Extreme / Celeron-L (800fsb) / p4 / Pentium D ; intel P45 + iCH10R chipset , 1600/1333/1066/800 fsb , 4x dual channel ddr2-1200 ( upto 2.6v ) upto 16Gb , 9 x s-ata2 with raid 0/1/5/0+1/10 ( 7 x internal + 2 x external e-sata ) , 1 x parallel ata133 , on-board AD2000B 7.1 audio with optical+coaxial S/Pdif out + 1394a + dual gigabit lan ; 2x pci , 2 x pci-e(1x) , 3x pci-e 16x ( 2 x pci-e 2.0 + 1 x pci-e 1.0 / 8x+8x+4x ) , 1 x PS2 only for kb
R1100 Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C4DHX - XMS2 , with DHX technology , Low-latency , 2x2Gb/2048mb kit , ddr2-800 ( pc2-6400 ) , CL4 , 2.1v - 240pin - lifetime warranty
R4300 Sapphire 21133-00-40R , HD4870 chipset , HDMi ready , support crossfire-X , built-in HDMi codec+7.1 audio , support DirectX 10.1 , 1080p HDCP Compliant , pci-e 2.0 x16 , 512mb 256bit 4 channel DDR5 , 800 stream processors ( pixel shader engine + vertex pipelines ) , core/memory : 750/3600mhz , dual dvi ( with 2 x dvi to d-sub + 1 x dvi to HDMi converter ) , HDTV+HDMi tv-out - full retail pack

+ 600watt PSU, case, LCD etc.

[PostmanPot]

Awesome, my biggest problem is WHERE to buy from though?

Check out www.zones.co.za ...

[Y2K]

Check out www.zones.co.za ...

Awesome thank you very much! I wasnt sure if PC ZOne would be able to do something like that.

Love the specs on the quote above.

[scotty777]

i dunno, I think a core i7 would yield better results hey, but my opinion matters little here

[killadoob]

Could get an Intel i7 Nehalem system for that (latest Intel system with DDR3 RAM).

But tbh I'd go for a Q9550 + DDR2 RAM system, will yield similar performance.

Errrm it would?

Have you seena 920 i7 with ddr3? it destroys that setup

i7 920
entry level x58
6gb of ram in tri channel
295 nvidia

Should have about 3k left over for case psu etc
ask postman to give you a quote on that if your in CT

[Y2K]

i dunno, I think a core i7 would yield better results hey, but my opinion matters little here

I value everyones opinion.

[Y2K]

Errrm it would?

Have you seena 920 i7 with ddr3? it destroys that setup

i7 920
entry level x58
6gb of ram in tri channel
295 nvidia

Should have about 3k left over for case psu etc
ask postman to give you a quote on that if your in CT

I'm saddly in Durbs. I was thinking of asking the guys at PC Zone, although I'm worried they wont have the above products...

[PostmanPot]

Errrm it would?

Have you seena 920 i7 with ddr3? it destroys that setup

i7 920
entry level x58
6gb of ram in tri channel
295 nvidia

Should have about 3k left over for case psu etc
ask postman to give you a quote on that if your in CT

Okay it would destroy it in benchies, I guess we need to sum up exactly what Y2K will be needing the PC for. He/she might not even use the full potential of a Q9550 system, and therefore I feel i7 could be unnecessary.

Y2K, what do you intend on using the PC for?

But I am just against paying higher prices on newer PC components that will depreciate greatly in the near future. i.e. For the most part, I would rather buy 2 x ±R10k PCs over two years than 1 x ▒R20k PC that must last two years. Personal thing, but quite logical I'd say.

Q9xxx is still flipping awesome if you ask me...

[scotty777]

Okay it would destroy it in benchies, I guess we need to sum up exactly what Y2K will be needing the PC for. He/she might not even use the full potential of a Q9550 system, and therefore I feel i7 could be unnecessary.

Y2K, what do you intend on using the PC for?

But I am just against paying higher prices on newer PC components that will depreciate greatly in the near future. i.e. For the most part, I would rather buy 2 x ±R10k PCs over two years than 1 x ▒R20k PC that must last two years. Personal thing, but quite logical I'd say.

Q9xxx is still flipping awesome if you ask me...

but with dual graphics, I feel the Q9550 might not be doing justice... hence the i7 would be best... If the man/woman wants a R20k pc let him be, but I'm with Postman in saying that I would dare not go over R10k and that thing must last me close to four years .

If a gtx295 is used, then the only cpu that would be logical would be the i7 as it auto over clocks itself, and performance like a wild cat in games.

[cerebus]

The only reason a core2/quad would be equal to an i7 right now is because the bottleneck is primarily with the GPU. As the next gen lineups of graphics cards come out you will start to see the true performance difference between i7 and core2. The WEAKEST i7 right now will outperform a qx6850 or whatever on most benchmarks I've seen - and considering that the processors cost about $300 vs $1,000 for the quad core it should be a no brainer. Ok then you also have to pay for high end mobo and ddr3 ram, but your budget will allow it. I'm assuming you already have basics like a monitor right? I promise you will start seeing the difference in gaming environments in a year or so from now.


Processors generally have more longevity than graphics cards - no matter what you get if you want the best you'll have to upgrade in a year anyway, whereas if you buy well with a processor it'll last you a couple of years.