The PC Build Thread

[Agent_Smith]

Check Wootware...think they had some savings on the Crucial last week.

Wootware's prices vat inc? If so, that's damn impressive! Gonna call em now! Thanks for the tip. Anyone you recommend I speak to?

 

[Neoprod]

Wootware's prices vat inc? If so, that's damn impressive! Gonna call em now! Thanks for the tip. Anyone you recommend I speak to?

Yes, VAT inclusive.

I deal with whoever answers...they're a good bunch of peeps (think I got Chris last time I bought something).

 

[Agent_Smith]

Out of stock! Poop.

They not sure if they're getting in new models of that drive (or at that price). Ookie gonna check for me now.

 

[Mjc65]

any recommendations on a good psu for a xfx nforce 780i, price etc.?

 

[EmileS]

any recommendations on a good psu for a xfx nforce 780i, price etc.?

A 650W PSU will more than suffice. 650W 80+ certified Seasonic, Corsair, Antec.

 

[AthenianOwl]

any recommendations on a good psu for a xfx nforce 780i, price etc.?

Super Flower SF-750P14XE(HX) Golden Green HX 750W 80 Plus Gold Certified Semi Modular PSU

 

[Mjc65]

A 650W PSU will more than suffice. 650W 80+ certified Seasonic, Corsair, Antec.

Super Flower SF-750P14XE(HX) Golden Green HX 750W 80 Plus Gold Certified Semi Modular PSU

Thanks guys i'll have a look at those

 

[Mjc65]

Any recommendations on a good atx case for my xfx nforce 780i? i find it hard to find one of my liking haha

 

[EmileS]

Any recommendations on a good atx case for my xfx nforce 780i? i find it hard to find one of my liking haha

Your budget will dictate the case. CM Storm Trooper is sexy, but expensive.

 

[ponder]

Your budget will dictate the case. CM Storm Trooper is sexy, but expensive.

Cases are a personal thing, To me that case is fsking ugly, I prefer clean, elegant, simple designs. The very same company makes this case for example,

 

[Mjc65]

Your budget will dictate the case. CM Storm Trooper is sexy, but expensive.

Had a look at it, not a bad case

 

[Mjc65]

Cases are a personal thing, To me that case is fsking ugly, I prefer clean, elegant, simple designs. The very same company makes this case for example,

haha not a bad case either. thanks for the share

 

[Mjc65]

Anyone know what the current costs are to get you pc fixed or just performing general maintenance on it by IT repair shops? for business & home users.

 

[furpile]

Anyone know what the current costs are to get you pc fixed or just performing general maintenance on it by IT repair shops? for business & home users.

Last time Matrix charged me R150 to do an asessment.

 

[SBSP]

Please help,
Is it worth buying the 4th Gen i7 4790/k CPU with an entry level GPU ? the Intel CPU is Its damn expensive, I need a PC that has good performance when using Blender Cycles/Render, It doesnt have to be Excellent, currently I'm making use of an HP8440p that has a 2000 score on passmark vs 10k score for the 4790k and the HP laptop is just not working out it takes about 2 hours to render 4 second videos with high quality and in full HD res (This is for personal use I'm looooong due for an upgrade,)


Is it better to sort of balance it by getting a Gen 5 i5 with a better NVidia card with cuda support, In the back of my mind the GPU will only be beneficial whwn navigating a 3D environment but net when rendering the video to files, but apparantly I'm wrong cus Nvidia's CUDA can aid the CPU, Not sure how effective it is at it.

Any advice ?

 

[HideInLight]

Please help,
Is it worth buying the 4th Gen i7 4790/k CPU with an entry level GPU ? the Intel CPU is Its damn expensive, I need a PC that has good performance when using Blender Cycles/Render, It doesnt have to be Excellent, currently I'm making use of an HP8440p that has a 2000 score on passmark vs 10k score for the 4790k and the HP laptop is just not working out it takes about 2 hours to render 4 second videos with high quality and in full HD res (This is for personal use I'm looooong due for an upgrade,)


Is it better to sort of balance it by getting a Gen 5 i5 with a better NVidia card with cuda support, In the back of my mind the GPU will only be beneficial whwn navigating a 3D environment but net when rendering the video to files, but apparantly I'm wrong cus Nvidia's CUDA can aid the CPU, Not sure how effective it is at it.

Any advice ?

Carbonite:
Remember only get the k version if you gonna OC, and are willing to fork out at least R1400 for a motherboard.

http://carbonite.co.za/f39/intel-core-i7-4790-intel-core-i5-4590-processors-101382/

Here's someone that sells non k variant 4th generation tray cpus.
In other words you can buy an i7 for R2700 and just buy a cpu fan.

 

[Gaz{M}]

I decided to go for the GTX970 for one reason: VR headsets recommend it as the minimum. That made the extra R2000 easier to spend.

 

[Pitbull]

I decided to go for the GTX970 for one reason: VR headsets recommend it as the minimum. That made the extra R2000 easier to spend.

I never even though of this when I bought mine.

Just glad the R9 290 is also ready for Oculus

 

[Gnarls]

Afternoon brothers

My mobo went belly up. This means that I need a new mobo and cpu since it was an I5 760. I was planning to upgrade the GPU later this year but that will have to wait. Recommendations please? AMD vs Intel? Hold off for Skylake etc.

Don't want to go too overboard cost wise and I'd really prefer an atx board.

Thanks for you time.

 

[Aasvoël]

Hi

Looking for some feedback on the build below, gaming pc R12000. Anything missing parts, or parts I should swap out?

ASUS AS-H81 Gamer Motherboard - Socket 1150
Cooler Master K280 Black USB3.0 Chassis - No PSU
Corsair - VS Series VS650 650W Power Supply Unit
Corsair Vengeance 4GB DDR3-1600MHz Module
Intel Core I5 4690 Processor 3.50Ghz 6MB Cache SKT 1150
MSI nVidia GeForce GTX960 Gaming 2GB GDDR5 Graphic Card
Transcend SSD370 2.5 Inch SATA 3 Solid State Drive - 128GB
WD Blue 1TB 3.5 inch SATAIII Hard Drive - 64MB Cache