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Sorry for yet another of these, but I'm out of the loop regarding PC components having used laptops for years.

My budget is max 10k, and I need the whole shebang, though I could leave out the monitor if necessary for added performance.

I'm not sure how AMD stacks up against Intel these days. I would like lots of RAM, but don't need a massive hard-drive (maybe 500 gig), though it must run at 7200 at least. Don't need a blue-ray, fancy sound, keyboard or mouse, just the basics (and a DVD-writer).

Edit: It's not for gaming, so the graphics card needn't be a monster. Will mostly be using Visual Studio, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects.
 
An i7 rig will suit you well, and will come to about R9500, with a case, nothing else
i5 750 will also work well, slightly slower (around 5-20% in those programs) and comes to around R8500, with case. nothing else
Common/same price components are
GTS 250 - CUDA will help a bit
Case, any arbitrary R750 case
PSU - 500W Corsair
500gb HDD
i7 rig has 6gb RAM, i5 has 8gb
Arb DVD drive
Motherboard @ R1500

Keyboard and mouse you can get for R200 if you not looking for anything special. And I would strongly recommend a 23" screen at least, but they go for about R1600.
 
Thanks Archer, where are you getting those prices?

Which mobo do you recommend for the i7? Are the iXs a lot better than the Phenoms?
 
Productivity software runs better on Intel (for reasons too complicated to explain). Short and sweet they have a better instruction per clock rate. So for you I would go with Intel. If you were mostly gaming I'd have pointed out an i5 or Phenoms. Prices are off the top of my head, and what you should reasonably be able to get. Although, add another R1000 to the i7 side, I forgot how expensive the platform is - cheapest motherboard I could find (in stock) was R2400. There is one thats goes for R1500 but its out of stock everywhere that I've looked.
 
Ya for the i7 build (x58) you'd be looking at about
CPU - R3000 (i7 930)
Mobo - R2500
Ram - R2000 (2x3GB)
PSU - R700
HDD - R550 (500 gig WD)
Case - R700
DVD - R200
__________
Total R9650

EDIT: Was thinking.. Why not go
CPU - R2800 (i7 860)
Mobo - R1200
RAM - R2000 (4x2GB)
PSU - R700
HDD - R550 (500 gig WD)
Case - R700
DVD - R200
__________
Total R8150
Now if you want drop 4GB of the ram, so
R7150 and buy an SSD?
 
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Using it as a yardstick more than saying "buy this one" ....... if the prebuilt/assembled ones can fall in his budget, then some good shopping around can get quite a beast for 10k.
 
I think a 5670 will be suitable for you.. Although the gts250 out performs it at a similar price, with those applications you wont see much difference if you not gaming... But it does run cooler at less wattage..

As archer says, they dont have an board graphics. Only the i3 5xx or i5 6xx CPU's can make use of on board graphics.

Not sure but I think all AMD's can make use of onboard?
 
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The GTS has CUDA though, which will give better performance with those programs... So unlike me, recommending Intel AND nvidia at the same time!
 
Thanks guys, will research prices.

I see PCInt has this

Foxconn FLAMING BLADE GTI- ATX Socket LGA1366, Intel X58 + ICH10R chipset, FSB QPI 6.4GT/S, Triple channel DDR3 1800(O.C.)/1600/1333 x 3 DIMMs, Max. 12GB , 2x PCIE2.0 x16 with ATI CrossFireX support, 1x PCIE2.0 x4, 2x PCI, 6 x SATAII 1x IDE, Gigabit LAN, 7.1 channel HD Audio, Up to 14x USB 2.0. ATX
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for R 1,652 incl.

May be a bit short of DIMM slots?
 
lol with all the foxconn employees committing suicide I'd be scared their boards also do.. HAHA
K seriously, neva used one before, so i dont know?
 
They sure have been around a while here, but a Brand F is not my choice.
 
From pcint:

Core I-7 2.8Ghz 930 LGA 1366(1600FSB 8MB) R 2,632 incl.

Intel Extreme Series, Smackover, Intel X58, LGA1366, 6.4GT/s QPI, 4xTriple DDR3 1600, 2xPCI-x16(CrossFire), 1xPCI, 6xSATA2(Raid,0,1,5,10), 2x eSATA, Gbe Lan, 10ch-Sound, Max 12xUSB, 2xIEEE1394, ATX R 2,119 incl

2GB DDRIII-1600 Hyper-X (Kingston) 4 x R 625 incl. = R 2500

500GB-7200RPM 16MB Cache SATA II (Seagate) R 401 incl.

DVD Writer 22/12x DL SATA R 153 incl.

550W ATX Power Supply- Huntkey Greenpower R 376 incl.

Geforce GTS 250 1GB DDR3, D-Sub,DVI,HDMI - R 1,151 incl.

Coolermaster USP 100 Case - No PSU R 500 incl.
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Comes in at R9832.
 
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