Gaming PC for R10000

Psyndrome

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Hi guys,
Trying to build a PC for a friend with a budget of R10000 which is proving to be a little difficult. Must be able to play latest games on high settings. Thinking more an AMD setup (price/performance ratio) with a 22inch monitor. Do not need keyboard and mouse.
Anything in mind?
 
Hey Psyndrome, contact @The Joker, he will be able to help you out :) He's pretty much the resident build guru on My Gaming :)
 
Well with a tight budget and you wanna go AMD this is what a friend built recently and these are incl vat but it's supplier prices

CPU: AMD ® FX 4300 X4 (3800MHZ), 4MB Cache 95W, 0.32nm R1572.00
Motherboard: MSI 990FXA-GD65, 8CH SND, GB LAN, SPDIF, No VGA CF/SLI R1400.00
Memory: APACER BLACK PANTHER 2X4GB DDR3 1600MHZ DIMM R1025.00
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 500GB Serial ATA III 6Gb/s16MB Cache R 649.00
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7900 RPM 2.0TB Serial ATA III 6Gb/s64MB Cache R1116.00
GPU: MSI R7870-2GD5T/OC,2GB PCI-E (DVI,2x Mini DP,HDMI)DX11 DDR5 R 2897.00
PSU: Fractal Design Integra R2 650W 80 Plus Bronze R 831.00
Case: Fractal Design CORE 1000 Black - No PSU R 307.00
Monitor: LG 21.5" E22EN43V LED MONITOR, 1920X1080, Contrast 5Million:1 R1823.00

Total 11620 it's 1620 over his budget :( but that is a decent machine i think
 
Well with a tight budget and you wanna go AMD this is what a friend built recently and these are incl vat but it's supplier prices

CPU: AMD ® FX 4300 X4 (3800MHZ), 4MB Cache 95W, 0.32nm R1572.00
Motherboard: MSI 990FXA-GD65, 8CH SND, GB LAN, SPDIF, No VGA CF/SLI R1400.00
Memory: APACER BLACK PANTHER 2X4GB DDR3 1600MHZ DIMM R1025.00
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 500GB Serial ATA III 6Gb/s16MB Cache R 649.00
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7900 RPM 2.0TB Serial ATA III 6Gb/s64MB Cache R1116.00
GPU: MSI R7870-2GD5T/OC,2GB PCI-E (DVI,2x Mini DP,HDMI)DX11 DDR5 R 2897.00
PSU: Fractal Design Integra R2 650W 80 Plus Bronze R 831.00
Case: Fractal Design CORE 1000 Black - No PSU R 307.00
Monitor: LG 21.5" E22EN43V LED MONITOR, 1920X1080, Contrast 5Million:1 R1823.00

Total 11620 it's 1620 over his budget :( but that is a decent machine i think

You might be able to fit a smaller PSU and cut back on a Harddrive to easily fit the price.
 
AMD FX-8320 R2058
MSI 970A-G46 R1050
G.Skill Sniper, 8GB (2x 4GB) kit, DDR3-2400 R1035
GIGABYTE R9-270X, WindForce 3X Edition 2Gb 256bit R2852
be quiet! Pure Power L8 CM, 530w R686
Zalman ZM-Z1 R419
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX, 500GB R650
LG 22EN43V 21.5" LED display, Full HD 1920x1080 R1850

R10 600

Slightly over budget but you can't beat the performance for the price ;)
 
Well with a tight budget and you wanna go AMD this is what a friend built recently and these are incl vat but it's supplier prices

CPU: AMD ® FX 4300 X4 (3800MHZ), 4MB Cache 95W, 0.32nm R1572.00
Motherboard: MSI 990FXA-GD65, 8CH SND, GB LAN, SPDIF, No VGA CF/SLI R1400.00
Memory: APACER BLACK PANTHER 2X4GB DDR3 1600MHZ DIMM R1025.00
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 500GB Serial ATA III 6Gb/s16MB Cache R 649.00
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7900 RPM 2.0TB Serial ATA III 6Gb/s64MB Cache R1116.00
GPU: MSI R7870-2GD5T/OC,2GB PCI-E (DVI,2x Mini DP,HDMI)DX11 DDR5 R 2897.00
PSU: Fractal Design Integra R2 650W 80 Plus Bronze R 831.00
Case: Fractal Design CORE 1000 Black - No PSU R 307.00
Monitor: LG 21.5" E22EN43V LED MONITOR, 1920X1080, Contrast 5Million:1 R1823.00

Total 11620 it's 1620 over his budget :( but that is a decent machine i think

Cut back on the PSU, the 2TB and the MTB and put a better CPU and GPU in...I suppose that's what The Joker did :p
 
Cut back on the PSU, the 2TB and the MTB and put a better CPU and GPU in...I suppose that's what The Joker did :p

Actually I changed the ram to faster ram, I changed the case and psu for high quality but budget orientated parts.
Upped the cpu to a 8 core, put in a faster gpu, changed the hdd to 500GB. ;)
 
Still think it's not a bad machine i just thought of going bigger power if he decided to go cf/sli later and the bigger hard drive for space reasons and the other one for an OS drive.

But only tried to give a rough look at what he can look at :(
 
Still think it's not a bad machine i just thought of going bigger power if he decided to go cf/sli later and the bigger hard drive for space reasons and the other one for an OS drive.

But only tried to give a rough look at what he can look at :(

Nothing wrong with your pick bud, Just a bit to over budget but still decent.
 
Wait wut??!! @Joker that explains a lot :p where are you cos next time i can't get something from pinnacle i'm gonna harass you :p
 
G.Skill Sniper, 8GB (2x 4GB) kit, DDR3-2400

He could opt for cheaper ram unless he's going to overclock, the board only goes up to 2133*(OC), although at that price I dont think you going to do much better to be honest unless you go for standard desktop ram
 
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