A good PC for around 15k?

Duke Dude

Duke Dude

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Howzit chaps,

So I'm looking to get myself another PC for around 15K, any advice?
This price would not include a monitor, speakers or a mouse and keyboard. Just the tower. I will also be running Win7 Ultimate. And hopefully all I'll need to upgrade for the next 2 years will just be the GPU.

Thanks
 
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Duke Dude said:
Howzit chaps,

So I'm looking to get myself another PC for around 15K, any advice?
This price would not include a monitor, speakers or a mouse and keyboard. Just the tower. I will also be running Win7 Ultimate. And hopefully all I'll need to upgrade for the next 2 years will just be the GPU.

Thanks
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Whoa dude, you can get quite a nice PC for that price. First things first though, you'll need to decide on what you want to go for, AMD or Intel.
 
Go with intel either 2600k or the new high end sandy bridge socket coming q4 if u can wait it will hav 6 cores to replace quad cores and 12 threads :) it will replace x58
 
I'm actually building a PC right now, and probably buying in the next 24 hours.

Here ya go.
http://www.take2.co.za/wishlistshar...0a07278728e22275c19c4046eef407d14bt6411390072

My budget was R10k, so you can obviously add some more to that... Maybe add a solid state drive, increase the memory, take the one-step-bigger CPU, larger PSU, and heck - maybe even a prettier case!

Anyway.

Thats an AMD,
I have abandoned my Intel build as the Motherboard choices in that range were hectically expensive and incompatible.
----> Did you know that I couldn't find an Intel board in stock, that had USB3, Sata3 and 1600-Tri-chan Memory for under 3k?!


So there.
Something you can build on.

PS: Take2 currently has a special for FREE DELIVERY on orders over R350.
Good deal imo.
 
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to0kenZA said:
Whoa dude, you can get quite a nice PC for that price. First things first though, you'll need to decide on what you want to go for, AMD or Intel.
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I prefer Intel to AMD mate, but in terms of a GPU I can never make up my mind as to who is better, Nvidia or AMD? Who do you prefer?

wheunis said:
I'm actually building a PC right now, and probably buying in the next 24 hours.

Here ya go.
http://www.take2.co.za/wishlistshar...0a07278728e22275c19c4046eef407d14bt6411390072

My budget was R10k, so you can obviously add some more to that... Maybe add a solid state drive, increase the memory, take the one-step-bigger CPU, larger PSU, and heck - maybe even a prettier case!

Anyway.

Thats an AMD,
I have abandoned my Intel build as the Motherboard choices in that range were hectically expensive and incompatible.
----> Did you know that I couldn't find an Intel board in stock, that had USB3, Sata3 and 1600-Tri-chan Memory for under 3k?!


So there.
Something you can build on.

PS: Take2 currently has a special for FREE DELIVERY on orders over R350.
Good deal imo.
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Thanks for the info mate, your link is broken btw ;)
 
Duke Dude said:
I prefer Intel to AMD mate, but in terms of a GPU I can never make up my mind as to who is better, Nvidia or AMD? Who do you prefer?
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Well, I prefer AMD and Radeon because it's so much cheaper and don't usually get the urge to spend R10 000 just on a CPU and a mobo :D

But seriously, value for money-wise, AMD is cool. Unless someone can give me a valuable correction, I don't think there is such a huuuuge difference between the high-end AMD and Intel CPUs, at the moment. CPUs, whether they be Intel or AMD, these days, are all very powerful and I think (please correct me if I'm wrong) the focus is more on having a very powerful GPU.

As for the GPU side of things, I'm still not sure about Nvidia. I've been thinking of getting an Nvidia card, but I just don't know hey.. Regarding price, it's a no-brainer but performance wise I wouldn't know since I've never really owned any GPU besides Radeon.
 
to0kenZA said:
Well, I prefer AMD and Radeon because it's so much cheaper and don't usually get the urge to spend R10 000 just on a CPU and a mobo :D

But seriously, value for money-wise, AMD is cool. Unless someone can give me a valuable correction, I don't think there is such a huuuuge difference between the high-end AMD and Intel CPUs, at the moment. CPUs, whether they be Intel or AMD, these days, are all very powerful and I think (please correct me if I'm wrong) the focus is more on having a very powerful GPU.

As for the GPU side of things, I'm still not sure about Nvidia. I've been thinking of getting an Nvidia card, but I just don't know hey.. Regarding price, it's a no-brainer but performance wise I wouldn't know since I've never really owned any GPU besides Radeon.
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So if you had 15k what would your specs be? Keeping in mind that I do prefer an Intel CPU.
 
Duke Dude said:
So if you had 15k what would your specs be? Keeping in mind that I do prefer an Intel CPU.
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Don't really know what the current Intel goodies are, I know there's like a hundered and twelve different i7's :D Haha, not really but you know what I mean. Hmm, I'd go with that Sandy Bridge move everyone's going for I guess since it seems like the best compromise between cost and performance etc.

If I had enough money I'd get a monster GPU, like maybe a 6970 or something like that. I'd get about 6GB of DDR3 1600 RAM. I wouldn't get a solid-state HD though. It's really, really expensive and their lifespan is not that long. In the long run it's not worth it, or for me at least.

If it was me though, if I had R 15 000, I'd save up a couple more grand and really go all out like buy myself a Radeon 6990. That's what I'm thinking about doing now, actually. :D
 
to0kenZA said:
Don't really know what the current Intel goodies are, I know there's like a hundered and twelve different i7's :D Haha, not really but you know what I mean. Hmm, I'd go with that Sandy Bridge move everyone's going for I guess since it seems like the best compromise between cost and performance etc.

If I had enough money I'd get a monster GPU, like maybe a 6970 or something like that. I'd get about 6GB of DDR3 1600 RAM. I wouldn't get a solid-state HD though. It's really, really expensive and their lifespan is not that long. In the long run it's not worth it, or for me at least.

If it was me though, if I had R 15 000, I'd save up a couple more grand and really go all out like buy myself a Radeon 6990. That's what I'm thinking about doing now, actually. :D
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Sandy Bridge motherboards have ALL been recalled.
Massive fault in the chipsets...

SSD Drives lifespans aren't much shorter than regular HDD's. Shorter, yes. By much? Not that much.
They are however expensive, but the performance is regularly worth it.

I doubt 15k will get you a 6990 (once it gets released...).
The 6990 will be a Dual-GPU card, based on an upscaled 6970 Chip. Expected cost of card alone ~R8000+

The 6970 and 6950 aren't bad, but aren't all that good as single cards either.
They REALLY shine at their brightest in SLI/XF, if you can afford it.


With the build I made above, you can easily turn the 6970 in there to a double within the 15k limit.
Even some space left for more memory as well as an upgrade to the AMD Hexacore 1090T CPU.
 
wheunis said:
Sandy Bridge motherboards have ALL been recalled.
Massive fault in the chipsets...

SSD Drives lifespans aren't much shorter than regular HDD's. Shorter, yes. By much? Not that much.
They are however expensive, but the performance is regularly worth it.

I doubt 15k will get you a 6990 (once it gets released...).
The 6990 will be a Dual-GPU card, based on an upscaled 6970 Chip. Expected cost of card alone ~R8000+

The 6970 and 6950 aren't bad, but aren't all that good as single cards either.
They REALLY shine at their brightest in SLI/XF, if you can afford it.


With the build I made above, you can easily turn the 6970 in there to a double within the 15k limit.
Even some space left for more memory as well as an upgrade to the AMD Hexacore 1090T CPU.
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Well, there goes the Sandy Bridge idea :D

But maybe you should then try get some good dual GPUs Duke.

Wheunis, that 6990 was actually my own plan. I'm getting that for myself though (thinking about it), so of course that wouldn't fit into his R15 000 budget for now, lol.
 
I can build you the following.

i7 950
Gigabyte x58 UD7
3 x 2 GB Apogee DDR3 2000mhz
GTX 560 x 2
Antec 1000watt PSU
Haf 932/Haf-x
60GB Mushkin Calisto SSD
2TB for storage

Let me know :)
 
Get a min of 4gigs not just 2 gigs trust me I am having so much troubles with not enough ram. for R400 more you could even get 8gigs.

550W is pushing it won't you say for that card and everything else. But then again you only have one hhd but there is no real room for expanding on that 550W.

Don't like a motherboard without vga on it since I have had a few gpu die on me and well the onboard have saved me a few times now.

I put this together for my dad a while ago so there might be something better out by now but here it is now he does not play games so no gaming gpu for him but he need the possessing power and ram. Also 2x Gpus for 6 screens but yeah since that does not require the top range I choise a low/mid range.
http://www.zapsonline.com/product.php?id_product=31157
http://www.zapsonline.com/product.php?id_product=38930
http://www.zapsonline.com/product.php?id_product=34150
http://www.zapsonline.com/product.php?id_product=39617
http://www.zapsonline.com/product.php?id_product=33170
 
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Blaze786 said:
I can build you the following.

i7 950
Gigabyte x58 UD7
3 x 2 GB Apogee DDR3 2000mhz
GTX 560 x 2
Antec 1000watt PSU
Haf 932/Haf-x
60GB Mushkin Calisto SSD
2TB for storage

Let me know :)
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1000W PSU? Are you sure?
 
Crzwaco said:
Get a min of 4gigs not just 2 gigs trust me I am having so much troubles with not enough ram. for R400 more you could even get 8gigs.

550W is pushing it won't you say for that card and everything else. But then again you only have one hhd but there is no real room for expanding on that 550W.

Don't like a motherboard without vga on it since I have had a few gpu die on me and well the onboard have saved me a few times now.
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There is indeed 4GB in that build of mine... 4GB kit (2x 2GB)

A steady enough point on the onboard GPU as fallback.
My past history is your exact opposite... The stagnant an inactive GPU goes faulty, causing the whole board to refuse even booting. GAHR!!! lol

About the 550W.
Yes, you are indeed correct.
I took the CPU, GPU and HDD at highest possible power profile (stress test levels), added 10%, and then there is breathing room of 98W for deterioration.

It is very restrictive, but I wont be going multi-drive, or multi-GPU or anything like that on this PC ever.


to0kenZA said:
Wheunis, that 6990 was actually my own plan. I'm getting that for myself though (thinking about it), so of course that wouldn't fit into his R15 000 budget for now, lol.
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I can easily fit dual 6970 and a 700-800W PSU into that build and still come out around 15k...

Lemme have a peek at it for ya.
Dual 6970 right now is as powerful as it gets.

But yeah, it might cost ya lol.
 
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