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I need some advise on buying PC components.

Only need a motherboard, CPU, RAM graphics card and case. The rest I will take from my old PC. Is it possible to get something reasonable for under R5000, or what should I look at. Not a serious gamer, but like to play the occasional game (Quake, CS, etc)

A few options please.
 
leonb said:
I need some advise on buying PC components.

Only need a motherboard, CPU, RAM graphics card and case. The rest I will take from my old PC. Is it possible to get something reasonable for under R5000, or what should I look at. Not a serious gamer, but like to play the occasional game (Quake, CS, etc)

A few options please.
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What city or town?
 
I recommend, phone 4 to 5 suppliers compare prices and what you can get for them. This usually is good option.

1) Avoids getting ripped off
2) you learn very quickly what is what

I might get badgered for saying this, but if you compare around the highest speed for the best price usually determines the quality of the machine - its simple physics.
 
Check out www.prophecy.co.za

I cannot recommend them enough. Best prices, huge range, and great service.

Mobo and CPU you might want to go the AMD route. Not the most popular choice due to Bill Gate's and Intel's brainswashing. But the AMD's perform as well as their Intel counterparts and cost less.

Depending on how little you game, you could go for an AMD S-Series motherboard with built in geForce 6100 graphics and pick up a 2nd hand graphics card at a later stage. Like when the 8800s come down in price.

The you can pick up a nice case for like R500 and a PSU for the same.

Looking at R1800 for the AMD X2 4600+, R900 for the mobo, R1700 for 2GB DDR800 RAM, R500 for case, R500 for PSU.

That makes R5400 which is close, and I think that is a good solid machine :)
 
Contact Syndicate at systemshock or pcformat forums. Can't recommend him enough. Nicest pc dealer I have ever dealt with. His prices are great and the best service you could ever get.
 
CPU:
Amd socket AM2 athlon64 x2 Dual core 4400+ (2300mhz) , dual core - 2 x 128k L1 + 2 x 512k L2 ; 65nm , 65w , 2000mhz hypertransport , with PVT , built-in DDR2-800 memory controller

Motherboard:
Asus M2NPV-MX , all-in-one ; socket AM2 , nVidia geforce6150 + nforce 430 chipset , 4x dual channel DDR2-800 , 4 x s-ata2 with raid 0/1/0+1/5 , 2 x parallel ata133 , on-board vga dual-output ( DVi-D or D-SUB ) , AD1986A 5.1 audio + gigabit lan ; 1x pci-e (1x) , 1x pci-e (16x) , 2 x pci - micro atx

Memory:
2x Kingston ValueRam 512mb ddr2-667 ( pc2-5300 ) , CL5 , 1.85v - 240pin - lifetime warranty

Graphics Card:
XFX geforce 7600GT standard edition , SLi support , Pci-E 16x , 256mb 128bit DDR3 , 12 pixel shader engine , 5 vertex pipelines , core/memory : 570/1450mhz , 2 x dvi ( Dual Link DVI - digital output up to 2560x1600 ) , HDTV tvout

Case:
Black Handle Case with 350W powersupply

Price:
R5000
 
Don't crap put on the power supply, it's worth it cutting down on a lesser mobo/graphics card and investing it into a good PSU. The no name crap brands just don't cut it.
 
feo said:
Don't crap put on the power supply, it's worth it cutting down on a lesser mobo/graphics card and investing it into a good PSU. The no name crap brands just don't cut it.
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Ya, and if you are going to upgrade at some point and get a killer gfx card or more hdds, then you will be happy you want for a 500 or 600W rather than a 400 or so...
 
Supersunbird's rig looks great. I'd go for that and maybe R400 for a Cooler Master 450Watt PSU. Rig should last you some time and play games quiet well :)
 
ShockG said:
Supersunbird's rig looks great. I'd go for that and maybe R400 for a Cooler Master 450Watt PSU. Rig should last you some time and play games quiet well :)
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Gotta agree with that. Got a nice gfx card in there as well. And the 1GB RAM you can always upgrade at a later stage.
 
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