PC Component Recommendations

[Lydon]

I suck at anything internally related to PCs, so I'll need some serious advice on building a new PC. Here's the specs I'm aiming for:

Quad Core
4GB RAM minimum
High-end but affordable gaming graphics card
1TB hard drive space
Whatever else I may need

Now I know that isn't very descriptive, but please make some recommendations as I'll just be (hopefully) buying the stuff and getting someone to pack it all together. Thanks!

 

[Nokkie]

Do you have any price limit?

 

[Lydon]

Not a set one but obviously I can't go into the tens of thousands. I'm looking for good value for money obviously. Excluding the screen and sound system I'd say a limit of around R8000 - 10 000, which hopefully isn't too little lol

 

[Nokkie]

Not a set one but obviously I can't go into the tens of thousands. I'm looking for good value for money obviously. Excluding the screen and sound system I'd say a limit of around R8000 - 10 000, which hopefully isn't too little lol

Anyway...

This is what I would op for,

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E8500
(Recommendations for gaming)

Intel Pentium Quad-Core Q9300 R2719
(this model is more suited for editing performances...)

Id definatly go with the E8500.

On motherboard makes their are three that are poplular..

GIGABYTE
ASUS
XFX BOARDS ( same with graphic cards)

If you are going with the option for good value for your money Id suggest the
Sapphire HD3850 Ultimate R2120.00
or
Sapphire Toxic HD3870 R2420.00

once again in my opinion ill choose the Nvidia 8800GT card R2500.00

mm motherboards.
Asus P5B-Premium Vista Edition
R1820.00 supports Quadcore and dualcore 45nm chips (up to 8gig mem)

HD Seagate 1TB - Id suggest an extra 250GIG or 350 just to install windows separatly unless if you wanna partician thats also fine.

Seagate, 1000Gb, 7200rpm, 32mb cache, NCQ, SATA-300 R2230.00

Memory - 2x 2gig corsairs memory DDR2 - R1399.00

prices are all vat inclusive
from

http://www.ikonicit.co.za

 

[PostmanPot]

For R10k:

CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E8200 / Quadro Q9300 (plus ±R1000) / Q6600 (plus ±R500)
RAM: 2 x 2GB Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD4850 / XFX 8800GT 512MB (minus ±300)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R / Asus P5Q (plus ±R300)
HDD: 2 x Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA
Optical: LG GH20LS10 20x SATA
Case: Antec Solo
PSU: Corsair HX520W.