Help Voicy choose a PC!

I see the Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8Ghz (1066FSB 3MB) is about R1698 incl. VAT around EL.

But on your site there's also the Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33Ghz (1066FSB 4MB) going for +- R2k incl. VAT

I doubt I'll need quad processing @ lower frequencies for gaming though... and currently the E8500 is just way too expensive. I'd rather pump the extra Grand into a nice gfx card
 
remember of the game/software isn't programmed for multi thread exicutes with proper implementation of cores usage, its not going to make it faster. infact in most cases slower.

with that said, i have intotal played 3 titles that actually could use multiple cores and it was better.

2 cores used to be the sweat spot for most titles, not sure if that is exactly still the case though.

my Q6600 is nice with those who support it and obviously on the flip side graphical rendering is allot better :)

....maybe a core2 and core4 with current titles comparison would be nice, just but tad lazy to go and look for it :p
 
No you don't need to be a dealer.
they do ship, im just not sure how much shipping will be to cape town!!
 
Aww man - they've really got some sweet prices.
But in comparison with a quote I've got locally, the shipping may just balance it out.
 
This is my rather mild (in comparison to you all :p ) upgrade that I'm looking at.

Intel Core2 Duo E7400 - dual core 2.8ghz box cpu , no VT , 45nm , Lga775 , 1066mhz fsb - 2x64k L1+ shared 3mb L2 cache - with EDB , EiST, EM64T , WDE , ASC , SMA , ADMB, 128bit SSE4

FOXCONN G31MX MB - CHIPSET : Intel G31 + ICH7, 1333/1066/800MHz (FSB), Socket T (LGA775)
CPU COMPATIBILITY : Intel®Core™2 Quad, Core™2 Duo, Pentium® Dual-Core, Pentium® D, Pentium® 4, Celeron® D, Celeron® processors
MEM COMPATIBILITY : Dual channel DDR2 800/667 x 2 DIMMS Max 4Gb
HDD COMPATIBILTIY : ATA x 1, SATA II x 4
ONBOARD : 1 x PCIe x16, 1 x PCIe x1, 2 x PCI, 5.1 channel Audio, 10/100 LAN with Realtek RTL8111B , 4 USB 2.0 ports

Asus EN9600GT/HTDi/512 , with Hdmi , geforce 9600GT , SLi support , Pci-E 2.0 16x , 512mb 256bit DDR3 , support DirectX 10.0 + shader model 4.0 +FP32 HDR + 16x AA ; max resolution 2560x1600 , HDCP Compliant , RoPs : 16 , 57.6Gb/sec memory transfer , 64 stream processors @ 1.625Ghz ( pixel shader engine + vertex pipelines ) , core/memory : 650/1800mhz , 2 x dvi ( with dvi to d-sub + dvi to HDMi converter ) , HDTV+HDMi tvout

OR

Sapphire HD4670 chipset , HDMi ready , support crossfire-X , built-in HDMi codec+7.1 audio , support DirectX 10.1 , 1080p HDCP Compliant , pci-e 2.0 x16 , 512mb 128bit DDR3 , RoPs : 16 , 32Gb/sec memory transfer , 320 stream processors ( pixel shader engine + vertex pipelines ) , core/memory : 750/2008mhz , dual dvi ( with dvi to d-sub + dvi to HDMi converter ) , HDTV-out - retail pack
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Though on the GPU side of things the HD 4670 1G DDR3 PCI-E DUAL DVI LITE at R1k ex vat seems the better option.
 
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