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Agreed 100% - I also don't like the "Takealot-style" discounts.

Having said that, the price is still less than what we see on our distributor pricelist for the equivalent Gigabyte or Asus cards.
 
Damez_Mod said:
Agreed 100% - I also don't like the "Takealot-style" discounts.

Having said that, the price is still less than what we see on our distributor pricelist for the equivalent Gigabyte or Asus cards.
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That's crazy. It feels like we're getting screwed by gpu manufacturers and distributors. It actually seems to be most tech at the moment. Hopefully things change next year. Hate being ripped off.
 
vaya said:
Still charging ridiculous prices though. This card should be R7000 - R8000 not R11000. Now maybe the distributor is ripping them off but they don't have to pretend like the real price for this card is R14000 and you're saving R3000 on this deal. Absolute joke.
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Nvidia's claimed MSRP for the 3060 Ti is $399 - that price is probably only true for the first batch of Founder's Edition cards after which prices will be higher as has been their practice. You can't get a Founder's Edition card anymore since a few minutes after launch - we'll see if they ever come back into stock at that launch price.

So the cheapest AIB models will likely be over $400 - the GamingPro is not Palit's cheapest model. I'd guess it's probably around $450 or so if not more. By the time the distributors margin (accounting for shipping costs, SARS's cut (excise shouldn't apply but I've never gotten a clear answer on that / ad valorum might be applicable) and retail margin gets added in, the price doesn't seem too unreasonable.

Basically, what I'm trying to point out is we're being screwed right from the factory :sneaky:
 
Neoprod said:
Basically, what I'm trying to point out is we're being screwed right from the factory :sneaky:
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Yeah, absolutely. Those $ retail prices aren't exactly indicative of the real world at the moment but at the same time I think prices here are among the most expensive in the world, similar to Brazilian prices and they have 100% import duty on electronic afaik.
 
Did a rebuild onto the B550 and all in all it was much smoother sailing than before. The RGB case fan goes onto the mobo directly. The Gigabyte board is a much nicer package overall. Well it should be at R4000 it double the cost of the ASRock. Cooling thanks to @MeercatMilker .

The board picked up the R7 4750G Pro with a BIOS from July, RGB Fusion synced the mobo with the case fan and my G.Skill RAM. If only DaVinci Resolve 17 did not crash I would have a build video but maybe in future.

Wootware is picking up the B450 on Monday, I have no clickly noises on the B550 at idle.

That said, I do not think B350 and B450 will have any issue with the 4000G and 5000 series processors, my B450 must have just been the odd one out with a bad VRM.
 
My kids PC packed up this morning. Their old Core 2 Duo motherboard or the CPU succumbed. I'm thinking of donating my old PC to them and getting an upgrade for myself.

My PC's current specs: i7 3770, 16 gig DDR3 RAM, GTX 1060 6 gig, enough disk space.
Monitor is an HO Z3, 1920 x 1200 at 60hz.

Main use: video editing, Lightroom, bit of mainly car gaming (F1, NFS games, etc).



What I would like to reuse for the new rebuild if possible: GTX1060, Huntkey 700 watt power supply, Coolermaster Hyper 212X CPU cooler, oldish Coolermaster ATX case.

I would like to upgrade to:
- a current version i7 or similar spec AMD CPU
- 16 or 32 gig ram
- NVMe SSD. (I see that the Samsung 970 EVO Plus is on special at Wootware and at Amazon.)
- Motherboard for the above. The motherboard must have an optical audio (SPDIF) output, to connect to my home theatre amplifier.
- What did I forget?

I do not want to target any specific budget, but would rather go for a balance of quality that lasts and is relatively future-proof, at a reasonable price. Any suggestions and advice would be appreciated.
 
deesef said:
My kids PC packed up this morning. Their old Core 2 Duo motherboard or the CPU succumbed. I'm thinking of donating my old PC to them and getting an upgrade for myself.

My PC's current specs: i7 3770, 16 gig DDR3 RAM, GTX 1060 6 gig, enough disk space.
Monitor is an HO Z3, 1920 x 1200 at 60hz.

Main use: video editing, Lightroom, bit of mainly car gaming (F1, NFS games, etc).



What I would like to reuse for the new rebuild if possible: GTX1060, Huntkey 700 watt power supply, Coolermaster Hyper 212X CPU cooler, oldish Coolermaster ATX case.

I would like to upgrade to:
- a current version i7 or similar spec AMD CPU
- 16 or 32 gig ram
- NVMe SSD. (I see that the Samsung 970 EVO Plus is on special at Wootware and at Amazon.)
- Motherboard for the above. The motherboard must have an optical audio (SPDIF) output, to connect to my home theatre amplifier.
- What did I forget?

I do not want to target any specific budget, but would rather go for a balance of quality that lasts and is relatively future-proof, at a reasonable price. Any suggestions and advice would be appreciated.
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Amd 5600x

It's up there with the i7 and i9 in gaming.
Workloads it's i7 or less than the i9, depending on the software.

It's cheaper than both Intel's offerings.

AMD has Intel beat this time on all fronts.

Thinking of going Amd 5600x myself one day.
 
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deesef said:
What I would like to reuse for the new rebuild if possible: GTX1060, Huntkey 700 watt power supply, Coolermaster Hyper 212X CPU cooler, oldish Coolermaster ATX case.
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Interesting you have a 1060. I saw this video when I was researching my APU and it seems while the 1050 is still ahead the APU is not far behind.


But since you have a good GPU already the new 5600x would be first prize like djbrendan suggested.
 
Neoprod said:
Gets on my nerves that - I have to run apps at start-up from MSI, Corsair and G.Skill to turn them off. It's less annoying than having them do their own random things but it's close.
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Gigabytes handles all of those for my RGB
 
Lupus said:
Gigabytes handles all of those for my RGB
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True, I was surprised it took control of my G.Skill Trident Z Neo. But at 2% on a 8 core Ryzen 7 it must have some of the worse programming inside it.

Flywheel said:
31 open tabs in MS Edge browser? Get off that gey porn lad.
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LOL, no Edge is my straight browser, I have about 40 tabs open in Brave for the geh stuff :laugh:
 
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