Low budget semi-gaming pc

AMD have good low budget offerings. Intel is good too, their Pentium dual core E6500 for example.
 
Synaesthesia said:
AMD have good low budget offerings. Intel is good too, their Pentium dual core E6500 for example.
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Good budget cpu the E6500. Downside is you stuck with the nearly dead LGA775 platform. One thing i love about AMD is the scalability of their platforms. 939 is the only real time they did an intel on us. Before that, you could go from a 500mhz thunderbird/duron(my memory's hazy) all the way to an athlon xp 2000+ on one socket

nakedpeanut said:
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Great prices, less than 10% on top of suppliers' prices (rebeltech's ram is cheaper tho:D)

On an unrelated note, amazingly ATI's still making agp cards. Never knew you could get dx10 on agp!
 
So that means going for AMD would be a wise choice? So then why does people still stick with Intel?
 
news24 said:
AMD BUDGET GAMING COMPUTER
MI-2 ATX GAMING CASE WITH 500W PSU
2 GIG DDR2 MEMORY
AMD AM2 NFORCE MOTHERBOARD
AMD AM2 ATHLON X2 5000 2.2 GHZ CPU
GEFORCE 9400GT 512MB GRAPHICS CARD
SAMSUNG DVD WRITER 22X SATA
500 GIG SATA HARD DRIVE 7200RPM
22 INCH LCD MONITOR
PS2 KEYBOARD
PS2 OPTICAL MOUSE
SPEAKERS
http://vtechnologies.co.za/computerspecial.html

R4300 a bit out of your budget but not too bad either

EVETECH also have special

Entry-Level AMD Gamer
Standard Features Include:
AMD Athlon™ II X4 630 2.8GHz Quad Core CPU
AMD™ TA740G Chipset Motherboard
ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB DDR2 Graphics Card
Standard Black Case
Seagate 250GB SATA 2 7200rpm Hard Drive
2GB (1 x 2GB) 800Mhz DDR2 RAM
Standard 400W Power Supply
22x Dual Layer DVD +/- Writer
2 Front and 4 Back USB Ports
Integrated 6.1 CH HD Sound Card
10/100 Integrated Ethernet (LAN) Card -Broadband Ready
OpenOffice & Nero
LCD and OS Optional
24 Months Return to base warranty
http://www.evetech.co.za/Computer-s...ri-core-custom-built-budget-gaming-pc-53.aspx
R3999.00 Only if you pay via EFT, otherwise price is R4199.00

Custom PC
AMD Athlon™ II X4 630 2.8GHz Quad Core CPU
AMD™ TA740G Chipset AM3 Motherboard
ATI Radeon™ HD3200 Share Up to 700MB onboard Graphics
2GB (1 x 2GB) 800Mhz DDR2 RAM
Seagate 250GB SATA 2 7200rpm Hard Drive
22x Dual Layer DVD +/- Writer
2 Front and 4 Back USB Ports
Integrated 6.1 Channel Sound Car
6 x Serial ATAII 3.0Gb/s devices
10/100 LAN - Broadband Ready
Nero 8 Essential
Black Case 400W Power Supply
PCI Express x16 Graphics Slot
LCD and OS Optional
24 Months Return to base warranty
http://www.evetech.co.za/Computer-systems/amd-quad-core-custom-built-desktop-computer-29.aspx
R 3,299.00 only via EFT otherwise pay R 3,463.95
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What would be useful is a list of games and how well they play on each PC.
 
Entry AMD Quadcore or Tricore.
2GB
250GB HDD
ATI 5750

PM PostmanPot for good prices.
 
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I've seen this system @ cafeviva for R3500- intel e5400 dual core 2.7ghz cpu, case (looks like crap) + 400w psu, intel g31 chipset mobo, 2gb ddr2 ram, 1gb geforce 9600gt ddr2 mobo, 22x dvd writer, keyboard+mouse and stereo speakers and 500gb sata hdd. Im no expert, but it doesnt look like much to me. However, the price is somewhat attractive plus there's a store in claremont ct so there's not much problem picking it up. What do you guys think? Good deal or ripoff? And has anyone had dealings with cafeviva? Hows their service? Once again, thanks alot you guys this thread's really been helpful so far.
 
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I haven't heard good things about them but I have bought a few things from them without a single problem.

That CPU isn't half bad either, I had an e5200 up until not so long ago and it could play just about everything on max. That system is alright but i'm sure some here with a dealer account could get you better..
 
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