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fionab said:
Help needed, new to Jhb and looking for a pc builder with supplier accounts. I am looking to setup a i9 machine
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Just use Wootware. They are in CT but will ship.

Also, unless the i9 is significantly cheaper, the R9 5900X is a better buy.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
Just use Wootware. They are in CT but will ship.

Also, unless the i9 is significantly cheaper, the R9 5900X is a better buy.
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Thanks for the reply, I am upgrading an existing machine so the machine is in JHB and will reuse the PSU, GPU, Memory, and HDD's. So need a JHB builder.
 
fionab said:
Help needed, new to Jhb and looking for a pc builder with supplier accounts. I am looking to setup a i9 machine
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Scooby_Doo said:
You do get R1000 off the cpu for buying the ram with it. So basically 5799 for the cpu.

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Built the PC over the weekend, everything is working except for the M.2 drive. It is only registering as a 1gig drive in both BIOS and Windows with the name of 2280 which is the name of the controller. From what I can find online it sounds like the 1gig is the cache on the drive and ultimately the drive is dead.

If I initiate it in disk management via windows and select MBR as the partition table it loads it as a 1 gig drive that cannot be used or formatted. If I select the newer GPT partition table, it creates it as a 2TB (note its only 1TB stick) protected drive partition with no options to interact with it. Any context options are all grayed out with no options to format or change drive letters etc. Only way to delete the "partitions" is via the CMD prompt and diskpart.

Did the basics, update BIOS, change to the 2nd M.2 slot on the motherboard. Well thats it, nothing more I could think of.

RMA with Wootware in progress but still never nice to "hope" my testing was enough and that Wootware's testing might find it is fine.
 
Scooby_Doo said:
Built the PC over the weekend, everything is working except for the M.2 drive. It is only registering as a 1gig drive in both BIOS and Windows with the name of 2280 which is the name of the controller. From what I can find online it sounds like the 1gig is the cache on the drive and ultimately the drive is dead.

If I initiate it in disk management via windows and select MBR as the partition table it loads it as a 1 gig drive that cannot be used or formatted. If I select the newer GPT partition table, it creates it as a 2TB (note its only 1TB stick) protected drive partition with no options to interact with it. Any context options are all grayed out with no options to format or change drive letters etc. Only way to delete the "partitions" is via the CMD prompt and diskpart.

Did the basics, update BIOS, change to the 2nd M.2 slot on the motherboard. Well thats it, nothing more I could think of.

RMA with Wootware in progress but still never nice to "hope" my testing was enough and that Wootware's testing might find it is fine.
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That's annoying

What I would do when RMA'ing is also provide a detailed self-analysis with step by step and pics.

I RMA'd a motherboard to Wootware, and it was sent it back to me saying it was "working".
I then needed to perform more detailed tests and steps to show that it really was not working correctly.
This made the RMA process unnecessary long (collect from me. next day delivery, maybe 2-3 days later tell me all is well, next day delivered to me, 1 day self-testing, next day arrange pickup, next day collected, next day delivered and a replacement shipped, next day delivered - so probably 10 days )
 
_kabal_ said:
That's annoying

What I would do when RMA'ing is also provide a detailed self-analysis with step by step and pics.

I RMA'd a motherboard to Wootware, and it was sent it back to me saying it was "working".
I then needed to perform more detailed tests and steps to show that it really was not working correctly.
This made the RMA process unnecessary long (collect from me. next day delivery, maybe 2-3 days later tell me all is well, next day delivered to me, 1 day self-testing, next day arrange pickup, next day collected, next day delivered and a replacement shipped, next day delivered - so probably 10 days )
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I hear you, many moons ago I had PSU go bad on me and I had tested the hell out of it and was eventually forced to take my whole PC There for testing to demonstrate how to load the PSU until it died.

A M.2 drive is a lot more simple than a MB or PSU so heres hoping my testing is enough. Otherwise I then go down the path of why would this M.2 and my motherboard not play nice... the horror if I have to pull the PC apart again.
 
Scooby_Doo said:
I hear you, many moons ago I had PSU go bad on me and I had tested the hell out of it and was eventually forced to take my whole PC There for testing to demonstrate how to load the PSU until it died.

A M.2 drive is a lot more simple than a MB or PSU so heres hoping my testing is enough. Otherwise I then go down the path of why would this M.2 and my motherboard not play nice... the horror if I have to pull the PC apart again.
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Microwave for one second if you want to make sure it doesn't even power on at all..

Just kidding, please do not do that..
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Pretty pethetic from wootware, 18k for 3060.
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I don't think I have a problem with this.
Pricing like this is the reason why we have stock available in SA at all. If they sold at or around MSPR (plus the usual SA-tax) then they would have sold out much faster, and scalpers would have bought many of them.

This way, those that really really want a card, can at least get one if they are willing to pay. If you don't like it, buy somewhere else.
 
Holy crap that card belongs in the R6000 - R8000 price range. Who the hell pays extra R10000 for a video card. I will wait until the prices are reasonable again.
 
Quicks said:
Holy crap that card belongs in the R6000 - R8000 price range. Who the hell pays extra R10000 for a video card. I will wait until the prices are reasonable again.
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3060 would be around 7 to 9k card if we go on the 2060 prices.
 
Quicks said:
Holy crap that card belongs in the R6000 - R8000 price range. Who the hell pays extra R10000 for a video card. I will wait until the prices are reasonable again.
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You going to be waiting for a while, assuming there isn't a crypto crash.
 
Mystic Twilight said:
You going to be waiting for a while, assuming there isn't a crypto crash.
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Cryptos are down across the board at the moment, so it's going to take a while for ROI to kick in for people who have thrown a lot of money at mining ETH (which is going to be a lot harder once ETH2.0 goes live).
 
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