Recommendations for Gaming PC

[Pe-Killer]

AH! the joys of living in S.A If you wait for the best hardware you'll always be, behind or you will just wait for ever!

So true sadly

 

[Meisteral]

What Glordit said

Yeah that is a bit overpriced.. I see Take2 sells it cheaper !

The cheapest I found was at the Prophecy Shop (R2657) and no stock. Maybe the new stock will be closer to the R1800

Mean Monster - Have you decided yet? if so, post your spec and price/s.

 

[Mean_Monster]

Nah I have not decided yet. Sorry for only replying now but sometimes work gets in the way I am not such a serious gamer, lets say about R 4000 - R 5000 without the screen card. Lets face it a decent Screen Card is about R 4000?

Also is it possible to get a board that will support a QUAD Core but for now one goes with a Dual Core E 6300 or something like that and upgrade once the QUAD Core prices come down. I am a bit out of the hardware at the moment.

 

[Pe-Killer]

Y0
Go have a look @ www.zaps.co.za there prices is not to bad.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Nah I have not decided yet. Sorry for only replying now but sometimes work gets in the way I am not such a serious gamer, lets say about R 4000 - R 5000 without the screen card. Lets face it a decent Screen Card is about R 4000?

Also is it possible to get a board that will support a QUAD Core but for now one goes with a Dual Core E 6300 or something like that and upgrade once the QUAD Core prices come down. I am a bit out of the hardware at the moment.

A very decent card (the 8800GTS) is R3000. Most boards will support dual and quad core, there's no difference in the socket. You can get a board that specifies quad core to be safe.

 

[Glordit]

Nah I have not decided yet. Sorry for only replying now but sometimes work gets in the way I am not such a serious gamer, lets say about R 4000 - R 5000 without the screen card. Lets face it a decent Screen Card is about R 4000?

Also is it possible to get a board that will support a QUAD Core but for now one goes with a Dual Core E 6300 or something like that and upgrade once the QUAD Core prices come down. I am a bit out of the hardware at the moment.

Most New Mobo's run Core 2 Duo & Core 2 Quad! Gigabyte P965's can support Quad core and they cost about R1000!

IMO you can get a good PC for about R6000 pushing 7

Gigabyte P33 - Support for DDR3, Quad core and intels 45Nm CPU's
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 - 2.2Ghz Alendale core can OC to about 3Ghz on air!
2048 DDR2 800 - DDR2 is much cheeper than 3!
8600GTS - good mid range display card, DX10 baby!
250GB HDD - 700bux for a seagate!

this setup will cost about R7000 [W/ 8600GTS] could use old HDD and get 1024MB now and another 1024 Later or if you have a PCI-E card use it and only get a new display card much later when DX10 becomes a standard!

IMO 7600GS or a X1650 is a nice PCI-e card for cheap because 9 Series is comming out soon and the 8 series will drop [Holding thumbs]