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That MB might work but all in all included will work out pretty expensive. Here is what I have managed to get, tried posting in the PC build thread but couldn't get help there.

MB - http://www.takealot.com/gigabyte-b85n-phoenix-wifi-haswell-mini-itx-motherboard/PLID38573024

CPU - http://www.takealot.com/intel-pentium-processor-g3250-socket-1150/PLID38673719

RAM - http://www.takealot.com/kingston-value-ram-8gb-1333mhz-ddr3-cl9-desktop-dimm/PLID29400631

Case - http://www.wootware.co.za/coolermaster-rc-110-kkn2-elite-110-mini-itx-desktop-chassis.html

PSU - http://www.wootware.co.za/coolermas...0-plus-85-certified-desktop-power-supply.html

HDD - Have a old 128GB SSD - Dont need much more, as I will be either streaming or using my external

This totals to about R4829. I am only really after that small form factor, so any chassis of a similar size will do. I only tried the shops I am familiar with for getting the components and chose a few components I didn't know to try and get into my budget range of R4000.

Also I haven't looked at shops I havent used before, so pretty much Esquire, Wootware and Takealot was the only ones I used. Havent built a PC in about 2 years and sad to say I am now completely oblivious to what hardware is still considered good.
 
RyanCK7 said:
That MB might work but all in all included will work out pretty expensive. Here is what I have managed to get, tried posting in the PC build thread but couldn't get help there.

MB - http://www.takealot.com/gigabyte-b85n-phoenix-wifi-haswell-mini-itx-motherboard/PLID38573024

CPU - http://www.takealot.com/intel-pentium-processor-g3250-socket-1150/PLID38673719

RAM - http://www.takealot.com/kingston-value-ram-8gb-1333mhz-ddr3-cl9-desktop-dimm/PLID29400631

Case - http://www.wootware.co.za/coolermaster-rc-110-kkn2-elite-110-mini-itx-desktop-chassis.html

PSU - http://www.wootware.co.za/coolermas...0-plus-85-certified-desktop-power-supply.html

HDD - Have a old 128GB SSD - Dont need much more, as I will be either streaming or using my external

This totals to about R4829. I am only really after that small form factor, so any chassis of a similar size will do. I only tried the shops I am familiar with for getting the components and chose a few components I didn't know to try and get into my budget range of R4000.

Also I haven't looked at shops I havent used before, so pretty much Esquire, Wootware and Takealot was the only ones I used. Havent built a PC in about 2 years and sad to say I am now completely oblivious to what hardware is still considered good.
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Why not take a old core 2 pc, fit it with a 1Gbps network card if needed and pump it full of drives and use it as a media server? Then get something like this. I did this, except I imported a R650 cx-x3 device last year and it streams very nice from my old media server.
 
RyanCK7 said:
That MB might work but all in all included will work out pretty expensive. Here is what I have managed to get, tried posting in the PC build thread but couldn't get help there.

MB - http://www.takealot.com/gigabyte-b85n-phoenix-wifi-haswell-mini-itx-motherboard/PLID38573024

CPU - http://www.takealot.com/intel-pentium-processor-g3250-socket-1150/PLID38673719

RAM - http://www.takealot.com/kingston-value-ram-8gb-1333mhz-ddr3-cl9-desktop-dimm/PLID29400631

Case - http://www.wootware.co.za/coolermaster-rc-110-kkn2-elite-110-mini-itx-desktop-chassis.html

PSU - http://www.wootware.co.za/coolermas...0-plus-85-certified-desktop-power-supply.html

HDD - Have a old 128GB SSD - Dont need much more, as I will be either streaming or using my external

This totals to about R4829. I am only really after that small form factor, so any chassis of a similar size will do. I only tried the shops I am familiar with for getting the components and chose a few components I didn't know to try and get into my budget range of R4000.

Also I haven't looked at shops I havent used before, so pretty much Esquire, Wootware and Takealot was the only ones I used. Havent built a PC in about 2 years and sad to say I am now completely oblivious to what hardware is still considered good.
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That build is much nicer than the prebuilt Asus one you asked about, it will be faster and expandable for when you want to do more in the future. When the Asus's life time is done you either keep it or sell it for 1/5 of the price you paid, with the build you listed, if things become sluggish you just drop in a i5 in a couple of years, add a dedicated GPU maybe and have a small gaming PC.
 
saa044 said:
Why not take a old core 2 pc, fit it with a 1Gbps network card if needed and pump it full of drives and use it as a media server? Then get something like this. I did this, except I imported a R650 cx-x3 device last year and it streams very nice from my old media server.
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Soul Assassin said:
That build is much nicer than the prebuilt Asus one you asked about, it will be faster and expandable for when you want to do more in the future. When the Asus's life time is done you either keep it or sell it for 1/5 of the price you paid, with the build you listed, if things become sluggish you just drop in a i5 in a couple of years, add a dedicated GPU maybe and have a small gaming PC.
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Thanks for the suggestions guys. I think I am rather going with my build and in the future look to upgrade like you said.

Anything you would have changed with my original hardware? I would prefer the mb posted earlier from wootware but budget won't allow it. As for psu and ram I have no idea whether that is any good.

Again thanks for the help.
 
RyanCK7 said:
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I think I am rather going with my build and in the future look to upgrade like you said.

Anything you would have changed with my original hardware? I would prefer the mb posted earlier from wootware but budget won't allow it. As for psu and ram I have no idea whether that is any good.

Again thanks for the help.
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Can't see anything I would change when checking quick, you did good, as for the motherboard posted earlier, I see no reason for it to be worth R1000 more than the one you choose, it has two USB 3.0 ports more and one SATA III instead of II, in my book that's not worth R1000.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Can't see anything I would change when checking quick, you did good, as for the motherboard posted earlier, I see no reason for it to be worth R1000 more than the one you choose, it has two USB 3.0 ports more and one SATA III instead of II, in my book that's not worth R1000.
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Also had a second look, got caught up in the looks of the board lol. Never going to use the board full capability and put in an overclocked CPU in a HTPC.
 
RyanCK7 said:
Also had a second look, got caught up in the looks of the board lol. Never going to use the board full capability and put in an overclocked CPU in a HTPC.
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I changed my entire layout at home. Except for my media server which still uses a 500w PSU, I want to change that to a 12v Windows 10 system with external drives connected to it.
 
@makro, I know the previous gen drive used to go on special for 1799.

What do you guys think is this worth 2k? I've needed some extra storage for a while.
 

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@makro, I know the previous gen drive used to go on special for 1799.

What do you guys think is this worth 2k? I've needed some extra storage for a while.
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I bought the 5tb @ Dion Wired for R2000 in December. They are now R2500.
 
Found out last night that my st3000dm drive (Segate 3TB) is kaput.

Only 70% maybe is backed up and a few important virtual machine backup snapshots gone.

The worse thing is not knowing what is lost for sure. Gummi bears sadly gone.
 
Vis1/0N said:
Found out last night that my st3000dm drive (Segate 3TB) is kaput.

Only 70% maybe is backed up and a few important virtual machine backup snapshots gone.

The worse thing is not knowing what is lost for sure. Gummi bears sadly gone.
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^^ Mr. Pot this is why. Now I know odd number drives these days might not suffer the same reliability issues as before but to put simply.. I'm scared.

I don't have any separate backups of anything so losing one drive means losing that info forever.


PostmanPot said:
Why not? OCD?
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^ No backups equals fail, no matter the drive size, odds or evens :(
I decided on a smaller 2tb drive so I could afford some externals for backups
 
airborne said:
^ No backups equals fail, no matter the drive size, odds or evens :(
I decided on a smaller 2tb drive so I could afford some externals for backups
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my last off topic post before i get yelled at... do you guys keep offline backups of things like movies and series too??

my personal things (photos, music etc) isn't much and can be backed up offline very easily on a 500gb drive. but is it really worth backing up large multimedia??

BTW i'm a hoarder so backup up EVERYTHING will cost me a pretty penny..
 
Zuner said:
my last off topic post before i get yelled at... do you guys keep offline backups of things like movies and series too??

my personal things (photos, music etc) isn't much and can be backed up offline very easily on a 500gb drive. but is it really worth backing up large multimedia??

BTW i'm a hoarder so backup up EVERYTHING will cost me a pretty penny..
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Embrace the minimalist lifestyle, how often will you watch whatever you store? Now days I just stream.

My friend told me once, having a lot of free storage space just means you will keep more junk.
 
Yeah I just delete stuff these days never run out of HDD space. If I really want to rewatch an old movie or series I can find it again. Or stream it.
 
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