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I'm in the market for a new PC. I've been looking around and found an interesting Set up in the Makro catalogue:
Amilo Pi 3645
Core 2 Quad Q9400
4GB RAM
1TB SATA hard drive
Blu ray Reader
9800GT graphics card
Retail price R13999

is this really worth it? the GFX card is what really intrests me, is it really worth it to buy new or would upgrading my older PC's be better.
Old PC's
PC A: Fujitsu Siemens
Motherboard: Gigabyte- GA-8I945PE
Processor: Intel Pentium D 940 Socket 775 @ 3.2 GHz 16KB L1 Cache & 2x 2048KB L2 cache (Does NOT support Core 2 Duo)
Graphics: PCI-E GeForce 6600GT (128mb ram)
Ram: 1x 1024mb Samsung PC2-4200U-444-12-E3 444Mhz
PSU: 400w
HD: 2 X 500GB @ 7200Rpm
OS: Windows XP Professional

PC B: Fujitsu Siemens
Motherboard: MSI- MS-7293
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Socket 775 @ 2.13GHz
Graphics: PCI-E GeForce 7500LE (256mb ram)
Ram: 2x 512mb Samsung PC2-4200U-444-12-D3
PSU: 400w
HD: 1 x 320GB @ 7200Rpm
OS: Windows XP Home

PC A is my Primary PC

I also have the following components that are not in use:
Geforce 6500 256mb ram
ATi Radeon x600 pro 256mb ram
MSI 915P COMBO (Onboard USB is blown)
An Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with HT 478 pin socket 478 processor
 
Well if you are willing to take bits and pieces you would get a lot further with your money than with that R14k.

The Makro pc is nice but heavily overpriced. Do you really want BlueRay? It's still a tad on the expensive side IMHO and will drop in price once enough BR media gets released.

The only stuff you can actually use from the old PCs are the harddrives. The 400W PSU is not enough to run the 9800GT with.
 
So i'd probably have to throw all my old stuff away, or sell it for next to nothing?
Maybe I should consider building my own PC from scratch, but it just that I'm not reall clued up about whats good and whats not. Lets say I have abudget of +/- 16000 what can you recommend?
 
zakdoc89 said:
So i'd probably have to throw all my old stuff away, or sell it for next to nothing?
Maybe I should consider building my own PC from scratch, but it just that I'm not reall clued up about whats good and whats not. Lets say I have abudget of +/- 16000 what can you recommend?
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Gimme 10 minutes. Is there a specific thing you are interested in? (Gaming/large hdd, etc)?
 
froot said:
Gimme 10 minutes. Is there a specific thing you are interested in? (Gaming/large hdd, etc)?
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Well I do game quite alot mainly Crysis, CNC And NFS. HDD with a minimum of 500Gb is probably what I would choose. I'd Just want my pc to handle whatever I throw at it for the next couple of years.
would you recommend using prophecy shop, I've just been trying to source the similar components from the Makro PC, They seem quite reasonable,
Thanks for the help.
 
Prophecy is a tad on the expensive side but yeah sure. I usually get prices from Sybaritic. In which region are you situated?
 
froot said:
Prophecy is a tad on the expensive side but yeah sure. I usually get prices from Sybaritic. In which region are you situated?
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JHB CENTRAL

This is what I currently Have in my cart from prophecy:
1 x Intel Core2 Quadro Q9450 - quad core 2.66ghz box cpu
1 x ASUS P5NT72-T Premium - nVidia ESA certified : support 3-way SLi
1 x ASUS EN9800GT Ultimate , geforce 9800GT , SLi support , Pci-E 2.0
1 x Corsair 2 X 2048mb DDRII 800 kit TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX - XMS2
1 x CoolerMaster RealPower 1000w Modular PSU (M1000)
1 x Western Digital CAViAR SE16 WD6400AAKS 640gb, S-ata2 , 7200rpm
1 x Coolermaster RC690 Nvidia Edition
total is R17134.87 (above my budget already with no screen, keybord mouse OS etc.)
 
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OK. I usually go to Ecomp in Hatfield, Pretoria. They have very decent prices and beat quotes too. They deliver in JHB for R65.
 
Yeah. That's them (WOW, they finally finished their site :D)
Ask for Etienne.
 
Etai has some nice specials too.

digitaladdiction

any of ur old gfxs AGP? Wanna buy my baby bro a xmas gift, he's got a 6200A atm
 
They don't have all of their stock on the internet (I've seen their stock list and it's huge). They are about 10-15% cheaper than Prophecy.
 
I have Sahara's price lists and Ecomp beats their prices.
 
Corsair DDR2-800 4GB (2x2GB) XMS2 DHX CL4 Memory Module Kit R1,504.00
Seagate 1TB Barracuda SATA300 32MB 7200RPM Hard Drive R1,520.00
Cooler Master eXtreme Power RP-650-PCAR Power Supply - 650W R1,099.00
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz 2x3MB 1333Mhz FSB LGA775 Processor R3,510.00
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 3000 Laser Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 3000 Laser R712.00
Asus ENGTX280/HTDP/1G GeForce GTX280 16xPCIE 512-bit 1GB DDR3 w/HDTV + 2DVI R5,967.00
Asus P5QL-E IP43 Motherboard w/A8 + LK + FWa + SATA2 RAID R1,476.00

This comes up to R15.788 and Ecomp might be able to get it down to around R15000-R15250, more or less. No promises though.
 
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