Proposed Gaming Machine for son

TonyA

TonyA

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Any comments on proposed specs for gaming machine would be appreciated. The Boy has about RK11 budget.

Specs as follows :

CPU Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz R 2 699.00
Motherboard ASUS P5Q Turbo R 1 699.00
RAM 2x2GB Kingston HyperX DDR800 Low Latency R 899.00
Hard Drive 500GB R 650.00
DVD Writer LG 22x R 339.00
Case CoolerMaster Elite 334 with Window R 570.00
Graphics Card GeForce GTX275 TOP R 3 299.00
PSU OCZ Mod Extreme Pro 700w R 1 399.00
Total R 11 554.00
He has an LCD monitor keyboard and two external HDD of 500gb.

Thanks
 
Try PCINT.CO.ZA.You will save a lot of money.Their processor is almost R500 cheaper.
Save about R400 on the Ram
 
Rather go for a DDR3 option, DDR2 is on its way out....I just got a DDR3 Laptop, it makes a beeeg difference.
 
I would swap the power supply to a coolermaster extreme or a vantec ION 600 odd watt., cheaper and same quality levels as well as watts. There you would save R400 odd.

Then the question is: Do you really want Core 2?

You could go for not that much more for an I5 or I7 system?
 
Nice. I wish I had an R11k budget for my own rig:
Celeron 1.7 GHz
768 Mb DDR
40 Gb IDE HDD
Geforce FX 5200 128 Mb
You can see that I'm quite miserable.
 
Gozzy said:
Rather go for a DDR3 option, DDR2 is on its way out....I just got a DDR3 Laptop, it makes a beeeg difference.
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That processor doesn't support DDR3.

Edit: my mistake, it's a core 2
 
looks like a good build for 11k IMO - i've seen a lot worse.

edit: sorry about your rig Too4, you do sound down in the dumps hehe - Welcome to MyBB BTW!
 
I assume the quote included price for an OS which will account for around R1K.
 
TonyA said:
Any comments on proposed specs for gaming machine would be appreciated. The Boy has about RK11 budget.

Specs as follows :

CPU Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz R 2 699.00
Motherboard ASUS P5Q Turbo R 1 699.00
RAM 2x2GB Kingston HyperX DDR800 Low Latency R 899.00
Hard Drive 500GB R 650.00
DVD Writer LG 22x R 339.00
Case CoolerMaster Elite 334 with Window R 570.00
Graphics Card GeForce GTX275 TOP R 3 299.00
PSU OCZ Mod Extreme Pro 700w R 1 399.00
Total R 11 554.00
He has an LCD monitor keyboard and two external HDD of 500gb.

Thanks
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can i be your son too :D
 
TonyA said:
Boy is paying for PC himself after saying for some time!
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Well thats cool then, must have taken him a bit of time to get that sorta cash together, my suggestion is to make sure things have decent warranties cause at his age you can't afford to pop off and go spend R1k quickly to replace a part to keep your machine going.

I assume he is a big gamer, although i don't think I could bring myself to spend R11k on a pc....wait.....if I had the cash (and no debt) then yeah screw it :D

edit: I would save a few bob and go ATI on the GPU, same performance for less moola
edit2: spend the extra cash on some better RAM, gonna be the bottle neck of the whole system
 
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