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ponder said:
Budget for those two items?
PSU wattage or what will it drive?

MB supports PCIe 3.0 NVMe and SATA 2242/ 2260 /2280 storage devices
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+/- R2000.00 budget, if not enough for both, then power supply only.

CPU 1600 AF, 16gig. RAM, RX 560 GPU, HDD, DVD-ROM, USB Audio interface.

Currently re-using a old Gigabyte 550 watt supply.

You recommended this, but out of stock

Super Flower SF-500P14HE ECO Bronze King Eco 500W 80 Plus Bronze Non-Modular Black Desktop Power Supply

Thinking of a 700 Watt RaidMax Rebel on Takealot, but not sure.

SSD's have no idea, preferably something that goes in M.2 slot, will buy a normal HDD later.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
+/- R2000.00 budget, if not enough for both, then power supply only.

CPU 1600 AF, 16gig. RAM, RX 560 GPU, HDD, DVD-ROM, USB Audio interface.

Currently re-using a old Gigabyte 550 watt supply.

You recommended this, but out of stock

Super Flower SF-500P14HE ECO Bronze King Eco 500W 80 Plus Bronze Non-Modular Black Desktop Power Supply

Thinking of a 700 Watt RaidMax Rebel on Takealot, but not sure.

SSD's have no idea, preferably something that goes in M.2 slot, will buy a normal HDD later.
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You should be able to find a Corsair VS550 for around 1k-.1.2k somewhere - on my phone or I'd check.
 
I have a Zotac 1060 3gb and looking to upgrade to something that is not too expensive but at least worth the purchase, as I want to give this card to my gf as a decent upgrade from her 560 TI.

I have been looking at the obvious 1660 Supers from Wootware but perhaps the radeon is a better buy?

Other specs:

Ryzen 5 2600 Hexa core
16gb 3600mhz Trident
SSD Crucial 256gb
ASRock B450 PRO4 AMD Promontory B450
 
nVidia is what you want if you're buying a new GPU. The AMD cards just seem to suffer from drivers issues, instabilities etc more than the GTX cards. Not sure if that's improved recently but it was an issue for quite a while.
 
UrBaN963 said:
nVidia is what you want if you're buying a new GPU. The AMD cards just seem to suffer from drivers issues, instabilities etc more than the GTX cards. Not sure if that's improved recently but it was an issue for quite a while.
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Most of the driver issues on the 5x00 series were sorted out a few months back.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
+/- R2000.00 budget, if not enough for both, then power supply only.

CPU 1600 AF, 16gig. RAM, RX 560 GPU, HDD, DVD-ROM, USB Audio interface.

Currently re-using a old Gigabyte 550 watt supply.

You recommended this, but out of stock

Super Flower SF-500P14HE ECO Bronze King Eco 500W 80 Plus Bronze Non-Modular Black Desktop Power Supply

Thinking of a 700 Watt RaidMax Rebel on Takealot, but not sure.

SSD's have no idea, preferably something that goes in M.2 slot, will buy a normal HDD later.
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Noo no to that Raidmax, they make horrible powe supplies.
 
Neoprod said:
I saw they have a very cheap Antec on there but I've never seen an Antec priced like that before - maybe dig around and see if it's any good.
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The Neo Eco models are fine, the one on takealot does not specify the exact model though. The 1st gen is CWT with a single 42A 12V rail while the 2nd gen is Delta with 2x 30A 12V rails.

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https://www.takealot.com/antec-neo-eco-550w-psu/PLID44302276 No model details on this one, the image is of a neo power which has 3x 18A 12V rails and made by seasonic, very old, will not buy. The description is however for the neo eco m. Dunno what to make of this, wonder if TA will be able to furnish correct details.

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ponder said:
The Neo Eco models are fine, the one on takealot does not specify the exact model though. The 1st gen is CWT with a single 42A 12V rail while the 2nd gen is Delta with 2x 30A 12V rails.

https://www.takealot.com/antec-neo-eco-550w-psu/PLID44302276 No model details on this one.

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Noted, thank you.
 
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