Upgrading PC - recommendations please.

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I can buy directly from Rectron in Cape Town through a friend so I'm somewhat limited. Otherwise I would have to go to my local retailer and pay more.

I also have a limited budget. I'm willing to spend:
  • ± R1800 on a CPU
  • ± R R1200 on a motherboard
  • Not over R2000 for graphics card.
 
Picard said:
I can buy directly from Rectron in Cape Town through a friend so I'm somewhat limited. Otherwise I would have to go to my local retailer and pay more.

I also have a limited budget. I'm willing to spend:
  • ± R1800 on a CPU
  • ± R R1200 on a motherboard
  • Not over R2000 for graphics card.
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AMD 1055T = R1,910.00
OR
965 = R 1,614.00

Mobo = R 1,241.00

Club3D 6850 = R 1,923.00
 
he wants to buy from rectron directly. Just wanted to see what they have price wise relative to dealers.
 
cerebus said:
he wants to buy from rectron directly. Just wanted to see what they have price wise relative to dealers.
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No No... Content creation/ Game/ Encoding ( and with what app)

All this makes a difference ... don't care where he gets it...
 
Oh sorry i misunderstood :)

Well tbh even the end goal doesn't really make a difference so much anymore. You get what you pay for, and more if you overclock. Apps vs games isn't such a big deal. A game will benefit from heavy threading as much as an application these days.
Picard the thing is you have quite a decent budget and you can nearly afford to go Sandy Bridge, which I keep ranting on about for the simple reason that it's the greatest thing ever. Anything less, i.e. 1055t, will be a significant downwards cut relatively.
 
How will the Sandy Bridge CPU's compare pricewise with the currently available models.
 
Picard said:
How will the Sandy Bridge CPU's compare pricewise with the currently available models.
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The CPU you want will likely be R2250
Mobo well out of your price range at R2000
Thats if you want to be able to OC. If you are willing to not be able to OC at all you could probably save R750 total. But at that price I'd then rather go for the i5 760, or even a Phenom 955.

Pricing is pure speculation based on expected dollar pricing
 
I don't think the prices will drop for most of this year. I think I will have to settle for some of the pre-Sandy Bridge processors.

I won't be doing any over-clocking.

I'm still not sure about the Intel or AMD. Are the similarly priced AMD and Intel processors of equal quality?
 
Well since you got access to rectron, the next question would be is your friends company going to mark the stock as internal use and claim back vat or for stock purposes? If you arent adding vat, highest you could afford at 2k for a gpu is a 6850, or 200 more for a gigabyte gtx460 1gb SOC edition (the SE edition is cheaper, the leadtek version even more at 1.6 could be the better option, i dont know how well it scales for overclocking, not that the reference model isnt bad at OC). CPU is easily an i5 760, majority of the boards will be within your 1.2 budget. Im assuming the prices between the different branches are the same, what you doing for ram?
 
Picard said:
I don't think the prices will drop for most of this year. I think I will have to settle for some of the pre-Sandy Bridge processors.

I won't be doing any over-clocking.

I'm still not sure about the Intel or AMD. Are the similarly priced AMD and Intel processors of equal quality?
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I'd go for the gpu upgrade and then wait a while to see the sandy bridge (what a stupid name-_-) motherboard prices because judging from the I5-2400 price these new cpus are going to be pretty cheap considering what they offer in terms of performance (did a bit of research and sandy bridge's mid-range look to be better or equal old i7s performance)

If you don't fancy the whole sandy bridge idea then at least wait for it to go mainstream and watch the price of old cpus fallllllllll
 
I'd suggest one of the following motherboards:
http://www.wootware.co.za/msi-870a-fuzion-am3-atx-discrete-amd-motherboard.html @ R 1,173.00 <- Older chipset, but with CrossFire (2x PCI-E 16x)
http://www.wootware.co.za/msi-880gm...850-m-atx-integrated-desktop-motherboard.html @ R 969.00 <- New chipset, like the Asus motherboard previously posted, but without CrossFire support.

I'm with reedOsama on this one, that you should rather just upgrade your graphics card for now and then get a new motherboard, CPU & RAM once Sandy Bridge is available in SA.

BTW: What is your current PC's specs? Please include PSU & case models too.
 
Pada said:
BTW: What is your current PC's specs? Please include PSU & case models too.
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Ha ha!!

Athlon 3200+
1GB DDR400
Radeon 1600XT
Dusty, noisy, no-name brand PSU (planning on buying a better PSU too)
Case is still fine unless the new GPU is longer than 27cm
 
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