Gamming PC for R10 000

[B1nary]

Who Wants to suggest components for a R10 000 rig no screen needed, this is what I quickly chucked together its late needs tweaking its over budget psu is overkill prob, and ram seems a bit pricey to me as well. all from wootware.


PowerColor AXR9 270X 2GBD5-TDHE/OC TurboDuo Radeon R9 270X 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 256bit Graphics Card - Includes 2 Free Games (AMD Silver Tier)
* This product is not available in the requested quantity. 1 of the items will be backordered.
Incl. VATR2,475.00

Intel i5-4690K 3.5 GHz BX80646I54690K Quad Core Unlocked 22nm Haswell (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Desktop CPU
Incl. VATR2,999.00

ASRock Z97 Extreme4 Intel Z97 Chipset LGA1150 ATX Desktop Motherboard E
Incl. VATR1,895.00

Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 Vengeance With Black Heatsink 4GB DDR3-1600 CL9 1.5v Desktop Memory
Incl. VATR650.00 x2

Western-Digital WD10EZEX Caviar Blue 1TB 64MB Cache Sata6G 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive
Incl. VATR759.00

Coolermaster RC-K281-KKN4 K281 All Black ATX Chassis
Incl. VATR520.00

Corsair CP-9020051-WW VS650 650W Desktop Power Supply
Incl. VATR771.00

Grand Total R10,719.00

[Mister 44]

Do you plan on overclocking?
If yes, then I think you're close to an optimal build, just add some cooling maybe?
If no, then you can go with a cheaper CPU (without the K for example), motherboard and even RAM and save a few hundred bucks.

Just a note about my experiences Wootware: With some products they are cheap while others are pretty expensive. Once you decided on the components, put them into a spreadsheet and then get prices for those (or nearest equivalent) from Rebeltech, Raru, Takealot, Wootware and any others you want. When I bought my PC, I ordered components from Rebeltech, Takealot and Wootware and ended up saving about R500 from just buying everthing at the cheapest store, but it can become a problem if a component dies on you.

Oh, and remember to keep shipping costs in mind. If something sells at shop X for R100 and at shop Y it is R120 but you have to pay R30 delivery at shop X while at shop Y it's free, which is the cheapest store on the bottom line?

[B1nary]

Do you plan on overclocking?
If yes, then I think you're close to an optimal build, just add some cooling maybe?
If no, then you can go with a cheaper CPU (without the K for example), motherboard and even RAM and save a few hundred bucks.

Just a note about my experiences Wootware: With some products they are cheap while others are pretty expensive. Once you decided on the components, put them into a spreadsheet and then get prices for those (or nearest equivalent) from Rebeltech, Raru, Takealot, Wootware and any others you want. When I bought my PC, I ordered components from Rebeltech, Takealot and Wootware and ended up saving about R500 from just buying everthing at the cheapest store, but it can become a problem if a component dies on you.

Oh, and remember to keep shipping costs in mind. If something sells at shop X for R100 and at shop Y it is R120 but you have to pay R30 delivery at shop X while at shop Y it's free, which is the cheapest store on the bottom line?

I noticed the Psu's are a bit on the higher price side as well as ram so yes, The build is actually for a friend of mine, doubt any overclocking will be done but its always nice to have the option to do a simple xmp profile overclock.

[FarligOpptreden]

How does one Gam on a PC? Is it what babbies do after they are formed?

[Grievous]

How does one Gam on a PC? Is it what babbies do after they are formed?

If you going to try be tease someone about their spelling, you should double check your own.

[MetalSoup]

If you going to try be tease someone about their spelling, you should double check your own.

[Mister 44]

I noticed the Psu's are a bit on the higher price side as well as ram so yes, The build is actually for a friend of mine, doubt any overclocking will be done but its always nice to have the option to do a simple xmp profile overclock.

Yeah, it's nice to at least have the option to overclock should the need arrise.

I notice the PSU is not 80plus certified. With that setup, I would go for a 500w PSU that is 80plus instead. I don't think you'll run into any problems with a 650w non-80plus, the extra watts should cover the shortfall, but it is not as efficient power usage wise.

[FarligOpptreden]

If you going to try be tease someone about their spelling, you should double check your own.

It was intentional.

EDIT: I see Eugene decided to enlighten you to one of the oldest memes out there.

[Blazzok]

Who Wants to suggest components for a R10 000 rig no screen needed, this is what I quickly chucked together its late needs tweaking its over budget psu is overkill prob, and ram seems a bit pricey to me as well. all from wootware.


PowerColor AXR9 270X 2GBD5-TDHE/OC TurboDuo Radeon R9 270X 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 256bit Graphics Card - Includes 2 Free Games (AMD Silver Tier)
* This product is not available in the requested quantity. 1 of the items will be backordered.
Incl. VATR2,475.00

Intel i5-4690K 3.5 GHz BX80646I54690K Quad Core Unlocked 22nm Haswell (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Desktop CPU
Incl. VATR2,999.00

ASRock Z97 Extreme4 Intel Z97 Chipset LGA1150 ATX Desktop Motherboard E
Incl. VATR1,895.00

Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 Vengeance With Black Heatsink 4GB DDR3-1600 CL9 1.5v Desktop Memory
Incl. VATR650.00 x2

Western-Digital WD10EZEX Caviar Blue 1TB 64MB Cache Sata6G 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive
Incl. VATR759.00

Coolermaster RC-K281-KKN4 K281 All Black ATX Chassis
Incl. VATR520.00

Corsair CP-9020051-WW VS650 650W Desktop Power Supply
Incl. VATR771.00

Grand Total R10,719.00

I suggest you have a look at the Pentium G3258. It's a dual core CPU (no Hyper Threading) with a stock clock at 3.2 GHz. However, it is overclockable. You can hit 4.4 GHz with stock cooling, and higher than that if you invest in an aftermarket cooler. The CPU also only costs R850. (wootware)

The overclocked pentium vs the stock clocked i5 are not too far apart performance wise, and you will be saving R2000, which is money you can put into a better GPU, which will give you much more performance gains than the CPU will. If you spend R500 on a nice aftermarket CPU cooler, you still have R1500 left to spend on a GPU. You can get a GTX770 for R4000 from wootware for example, which is a lot faster than the 270X

Tom's did a review on the pentium and it really looks like a brilliant CPU once you overclock it, especially if you're working on a budget.

So my suggestion would be to look at that as a viable alternative.

If you are going to overclock, maybe rather go with something like the CoolerMaster G500, which is 80+ bronze certified for the same price. The lower wattage should not be a problem.

As for the RAM, RAM prices are a bit high at the moment unfortunately, so there isn't really getting around that. The only option would be to maybe only buy 4GB now and then 4GB more later on, since you rarely use more than 4GB anyways. I have yet to utilize my 8GB of RAM fully.

[AlienTaker]

B1nary dont hate me but your r9 270 is on back order cos of me i took the last one wootware had in stock for my new build and im also looki g at a similar build if you want help speak to thejoker