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Looking at building a PC for a friend.

Will be running games like Sims 3 and maybe a few FPS games.
Budget is around R5k excluding screen and keyboard and mouse.
Will this be possible?
 
Second hand - easily done, can get away with R3k perhaps and have a decent rig
New...
Corsair ±430W PSU R500
HD6850 R1800
CPU R1650
4GB RAM R500
Low end H67 Mobo R1000

Thats R450 over, so sue me :p And tell your friend they must carry over the HDD as well :p Could lower the CPU, I was working on the i5 2400
 
Archer said:
Second hand - easily done, can get away with R3k perhaps and have a decent rig
New...
Corsair ±430W PSU R500
HD6850 R1800
CPU R1650
4GB RAM R500
Low end H67 Mobo R1000

Thats R450 over, so sue me :p And tell your friend they must carry over the HDD as well :p Could lower the CPU, I was working on the i5 2400
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Was going to stick in an i3 and the HDD is not a problem.
 
Archer said:
Second hand - easily done, can get away with R3k perhaps and have a decent rig
New...
Corsair ±430W PSU R500
HD6850 R1800
CPU R1650
4GB RAM R500
Low end H67 Mobo R1000

Thats R450 over, so sue me :p And tell your friend they must carry over the HDD as well :p Could lower the CPU, I was working on the i5 2400
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No case and what about Windows? Or is he going to find another way, ahem, to get hold of Windows?

I think you can get a 6850 for about R1600 though.
 
Ancalagon said:
No case and what about Windows? Or is he going to find another way, ahem, to get hold of Windows?

I think you can get a 6850 for about R1600 though.
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Curses! Just put the mobo on top of its box, worked fine for me :p And erm windows... I assume the person will have a legal copy of it! Right? Right! :D
 
Archer said:
Second hand - easily done, can get away with R3k perhaps and have a decent rig
New...
Corsair ±430W PSU R500
HD6850 R1800
CPU R1650
4GB RAM R500
Low end H67 Mobo R1000

Thats R450 over, so sue me :p And tell your friend they must carry over the HDD as well :p Could lower the CPU, I was working on the i5 2400
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+1, best bang for buck here (maximising budget),

Truth is, person does not need to spend R5k in order to do those things.
 
Ancalagon said:
No case and what about Windows? Or is he going to find another way, ahem, to get hold of Windows?

I think you can get a 6850 for about R1600 though.
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Prices have just gone up, at least for the decent brands with top after-sales service. But perhaps off brand for R1,600.
 
So far i have

6850
i3 - 2100
ASUS P8H67-M
2 x 2Gb Kingston Value Ram
Corsair 430W

All at just over R4000.
I have a 1Tb Hard drive lying around that i can put in it.
And there is no need for a DVD-Rom.

Just going to get some cheapy Cooler Master of Gigabyte case. Will stick in a quiet 120mm and all should be good!
 
The Coolermaster Elite 430 would be the smallest gaming case that I would recommend, and at R430 it is quite good value for your money.
 
Pada said:
The Coolermaster Elite 430 would be the smallest gaming case that I would recommend, and at R430 it is quite good value for your money.
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Will check it out. But the case Postman posted looks pretty awesome.
 
Yes, that case that PP posted looks amazing. A friend of mine recently bought that exact case and he is very pleased with it.
 
I'm looking at the Corsair Carbide 400R for my next build.
 
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