Gaming System for R8500?

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Any ideas on what the best setup would be for the above budget, slightly over is also fine.

Requirements:
Good GFX card (Pref nVidia but open to cool running ATI, brand important)
Gigabyt or Asus Motherboard
Tri/Quad Core CPU
Good PSU
 
Quad core 2.3 Ghz
4 GB of RAM
motherboard around R1000 to R1500
Graphics Card around R1000 to R1500.
nice case (around R1200) and 650 watt psu.

that's about what I just spent for R8000.00
 
What I am trying to build

Code: 
CASE  : CM Elite	         R  500	
PSU   : 450W - 510W             R  680
MOBO  : MSI P45 Neo3-FR         R 1300
CPU   : Q8200 2.33 GHz          R 1900
HDD   : none - 			 R    0
RAM   : 4GB			 R  890	
GFX   :  ?????

Total				 R 5270


add ATI 4850 at about R1500 and a hard drive..

Should be quite cool
 
if you only need those four components you can do quite well. is that everything or monitor case etc still need to come out of that 8500?
 
JUGGY said:
DDR2 or DDR3?

Sli or XFire or none?

You need all the other bits or just what's in your post?
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DDR2 is cheaper but open to DDR3 if it fits in the budget.

No SLI or XFire, single card is fine.

Everything except a monitor, basically everyhting that goes into the case.
CPU, GPU, HD, DVDWR, 4GB ram(min), Stiffy, PSU
 
ponder said:
Any ideas on what the best setup would be for the above budget, slightly over is also fine.

Requirements:
Good GFX card (Pref nVidia but open to cool running ATI, brand important)
Gigabyt or Asus Motherboard
Tri/Quad Core CPU
Good PSU
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You should have a chat to PostmanPot. Look at my sig
 
stiffy... whohohoh hahahahahah ha a lught for a gaming rig..... but then again we still used them at the office..
 
Well you're in durban right? So why don't you pop down to PC Zone: www.zones.co.za. Best prices anywhere imo. How about that R7400 i7 920 rig with the 4gig hdd upgrades - takes you to R7600. Then you just need a gpu, how about a gts250 for the time being, reasoning being that the dx11 cards are coming out soon and you might want to save up for one of those beauts. That'll set you back another 1600 - 9100 all told, not too shabby for an i7 rig and plenty of future-proofing built in.
 
the real issue is not the hardware, you are gonna do pretty well for that amount. The real issue is which OS are you gonna use?
 
Windows 7 ftw :D

Hmm I would go for something like:

Mobo: Asus M4A78 (prophecy)
CPU: Phenom II 920 (pc int)
RAM: 2x 2GB Kingston DDR2 800 (pc int)
GFX: Nvidia GTX260 (pc int)
HDD: 1tb Seagate (pc int)
PSU: Corsair HX520 (prophecy)
DVD: Usual Samsung dvd writer (pc int)

Works out to just under 8.5K
 
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cerebus said:
Well you're in durban right? So why don't you pop down to PC Zone: www.zones.co.za. Best prices anywhere imo. How about that R7400 i7 920 rig with the 4gig hdd upgrades - takes you to R7600. Then you just need a gpu, how about a gts250 for the time being, reasoning being that the dx11 cards are coming out soon and you might want to save up for one of those beauts. That'll set you back another 1600 - 9100 all told, not too shabby for an i7 rig and plenty of future-proofing built in.
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I live about 1km from pc zone as the crow flies. Purchased my quad core from them, it's still an option but the i7 will go over budget with a good GPU and extra ram.

This PC is for a friend. I will do some math/calculations on this. Problem is if you go i7 you need 3x 2GB ram to make the most of it which is costly. I have been looking at it but think the GPU will push the price to about 9.5k to 10k.
 
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So, give me some recommendations on a good GPU to go with an i7.
 
If you go i7 you don't need 6 gig - 3gig will also give you triple channel, but obviously 6 is better.

I see they took the i7 deal off the site - so I guess it's no longer on. Really I think that was an excellent price, and adding another 2gig for 300 would have been worth it.

So I see they have a GTX260 for 2k now - that's a pretty good price. How about that C2Q deal with a q9550, 500gb upgrade + 2gb ram.... Ech no on second thoughts the mobo and the psu are a bit too weak there.

Ok if you can't do i7 then i'd say something like this:

Q9550 - 2.5k (all prices are estimated)
Asus P5n deluxe - 1.6k
4gig ddr2800 - 5-600
500gb hdd - 500
CM690/Antec 300 - 1k (maybe if you need to save an Antec NSK6000)
DVD writer - 300
Coolermaster 500w - 700

= 7k. Then the GTX260 is 2k, that brings you a little over budget but you have a very solid system. Alternatively the gts250 is 1,6k so that hits it right on the head. Comes down to pricing after that. I wouldn't really want to go any lower than those specs for a proper gaming pc.

Or the e8500 pc looks like a good deal at 3,3k - there's enough budget there to upgrade everything necessary (mobo, psu, ram, hdd) at good prices and still have probably 2k left to buy a graphics card.
 
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cerebus said:
So I see they have a GTX260 for 2k now - that's a pretty good price. How about that C2Q deal with a q9550, 500gb upgrade + 2gb ram.... Ech no on second thoughts the mobo and the psu are a bit too weak there.
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I looked around and the XFX GTX260 for R1999 seems like a very good price but how does it compare to a 4870/4890 in performance & price?


The q9550 from pc zone seems fine. The Gigabyte G31 motherboard they use is not bad at all except it lacks expansion option if that is a issue for the individual. The PSU I suspect they will upgrade for a nominal fee, they use Gigabyte PSU units which work fine.
 
The 4870 1gig just beats out the 260. The 4890 performs on the the level of the 275.

Regardless of small fps advantages, with some of dx11 being backwards compatible with dx10 hardware i'd much rather have a dx10.1 graphics card so that more features are supported.
 
Qwikslver said:
The 4870 1gig just beats out the 260. The 4890 performs on the the level of the 275.

Regardless of small fps advantages, with some of dx11 being backwards compatible with dx10 hardware i'd much rather have a dx10.1 graphics card so that more features are supported.
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Can you link me to some reputable reviews of this..? I was reading a review the other day where even the 4890 did not consistently outperform a GTX 260. And just relax...Im not attacking Im just asking:p
 
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