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ponder said:
R5449 - AMD Ryzen 7 2700X - Includes Tom Clancy's The Division 2 & World War Z
R4239 - Corsair Vengeance LPX, 32GB Kit, DDR4-3200, CL16, Black

MB Options,
R3539 - MSI X470 GAMING PRO CARBON
R2659 - MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC
R2089 - MSI B450 TOMAHAWK


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I was checking out the Asus X470-F and wootware had it on special for R2799 last week, missed the opportunity. Then I saw rebeltech had it for R2679. I ordered one all cool and just I wanted to go there they send me an email saying sorry no more stock, someone bought 70 of those motherboards. I am pissed off now, and the prices jumped R1000 now going for R3700.
 
Quicks said:
I was checking out the Asus X470-F and wootware had it on special for R2799 last week, missed the opportunity. Then I saw rebeltech had it for R2679. I ordered one all cool and just I wanted to go there they send me an email saying sorry no more stock, someone bought 70 of those motherboards. I am pissed off now, and the prices jumped R1000 now going for R3700.
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Murphy.... you never have money when the goods are cheap. Then some ass comes along and buys up all stock JUST before you can get to it. Welcome to the club mate.
 
Quicks said:
I was checking out the Asus X470-F and wootware had it on special for R2799 last week, missed the opportunity. Then I saw rebeltech had it for R2679. I ordered one all cool and just I wanted to go there they send me an email saying sorry no more stock, someone bought 70 of those motherboards. I am pissed off now, and the prices jumped R1000 now going for R3700.
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At those prices, might as well check out what X570 comes out at.
 
So just finished assembling the "Family" PC.
Donated parts from a friend and howardb on the forums who was clearing up his garage.
The motherboard,CPU and RAM donated by the friend, older CM690 case from howardb.
Things I've noticed from a newer machine I built up earlier, the CM690 is big but the cable routing isn't great, it hasn't got any 2.5" drive bays, the rubber gromits to push the HDD in is perishing but most are still workable.
The motherboard io shield is gone, the sound card and network card are kaput but I got USB sound card and a PCIe network card. The old i5 4430 is okay, but wondering if I should try find an i7 or a better i5.
I also needed to get two SATA cables thought I'd stop at Matrix Warehouse the in store products are way more pricy then the website btw. But yeah I'll finish off with it this week, need to sort out the SSD in my machine, swap it into the older one and get Windows installed.
 
Neoprod said:
At those prices, might as well check out what X570 comes out at.
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I was thinking the same thing maybe they will lower the prices again? But I am not paying R4000 for a motherboard when I am aiming to get a AMD 3600 which hopefully wont be more than R4000 on release.
 
Lupus said:
...the rubber gromits to push the HDD in is perishing but most are still workable.

The old i5 4430 is okay, but wondering if I should try find an i7 or a better i5.
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Take a good one and make some moulds with candle wax, fill mould with silicone and you have new gromets.

Don't bother with i5, go i7 4790.
 
Quicks said:
I was thinking the same thing maybe they will lower the prices again? But I am not paying R4000 for a motherboard when I am aiming to get a AMD 3600 which hopefully wont be more than R4000 on release.
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If you're going 3600, a Tomahawk (or any decently-spec'd B450 board) should be more than adequate to overclock it. The 6 core CPU's are going to draw less power than the 2700x at max.
 
Neoprod said:
If you're going 3600, a Tomahawk (or any decently-spec'd B450 board) should be more than adequate to overclock it. The 6 core CPU's are going to draw less power than the 2700x at max.
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True was also looking at the MSI B450 pro carbon, but I have been using Asus and never had a problem before. They also say Asus bios, ram support and audio solution is very good on it. The MSI boards is lacking some finer detail.
 
Quicks said:
True was also looking at the MSI B450 pro carbon, but I have been using Asus and never had a problem before. They also say Asus bios, ram support and audio solution is very good on it. The MSI boards is lacking some finer detail.
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I find Asus over-prices their stuff the last few years. Used to be a big fan (my current machine has an Asus Z170 motherboard) but I've gone off them a bit.
 
ponder said:
Take a good one and make some moulds with candle wax, fill mould with silicone and you have new gromets.

Don't bother with i5, go i7 4790.
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So I must peruse Carbonite for an i7 cool.
Good idea on the grommets I'll try see if I can.
 
So I upgraded my old i5 2500K chip (non overclocked) to an i7 3770 and wooow...
I wasn't expecting it to make such a huge difference.
Previously on my GTX 1070 Assassin's Creed Origins was pegging all four cores at 100%, it's now down to 80 to high 90's and everything is just much smoother.
Got quite a bump in framerates too.

I highly recommend the jump to a multithreaded chip to anyone who's been looking to put some new life into their old hardware.

Carbonite has been a godsend too, got some amazing deals off there these past two weeks. My initial max budget was R20K to sort myself out with a decent machine that can play the latest games to high, as well as a 1440P monitor. Managed to get a decent system working using my old parts and some newer stuff. Also now have an awesome 1440P 99% sRGB monitor... and it all cost only R7.5K, leaving me with R12.5K I can use in future if I wanted to maybe get a Ryzen 3000 board, chip & RAM.
 
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Quicks said:
True was also looking at the MSI B450 pro carbon, but I have been using Asus and never had a problem before. They also say Asus bios, ram support and audio solution is very good on it. The MSI boards is lacking some finer detail.
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Neoprod said:
I find Asus over-prices their stuff the last few years. Used to be a big fan (my current machine has an Asus Z170 motherboard) but I've gone off them a bit.
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And the vrms on asus basically suck.

For the money the msi tomahawk is a great board.
 
RaptorSA said:
So I upgraded my old i5 2500K chip (non overclocked) to an i7 3770 and wooow...
I wasn't expecting it to make such a huge difference.
Previously on my GTX 1070 Assassin's Creed Origins was pegging all four cores at 100%, it's now down to 80 to high 90's and everything is just much smoother.
Got quite a bump in framerates too.

I highly recommend the jump to a multithreaded chip to anyone who's been looking to put some new life into their old hardware.
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Was wondering how that panned out for you.
 
Lupus said:
So I must peruse Carbonite for an i7 cool.
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Yip, I told RaptorSA to go i7 as well, see his post above. 4c/4c no longer enough, my 4690 spends much of it's life at 100% or close these day. used 4c/8t i7 sorts this out.
 
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