P.C. Upgrade Advice

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Re: P.C. Upgrade Advice

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He's asking about hardware.

If I start asking about 2x4's, then you are welcome to tell me all that you know about construction.
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Re: P.C. Upgrade Advice

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I agree with Jaco, he's not asking about building a PC. And this digression on building PCs has taken us to the next page while not actually helping Cyn with problem at all. Let's rather help find something which would suit his requirments.
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Re: P.C. Upgrade Advice

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You live in the Western Cape, right?

Give a budget, and I'll compile a list of parts. I'll even build it for you, if you want.

Total cost for my services: take out for lunch.
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CyntheWightRabbit wrote:Again, I'd like to first reiterate that I'm not looking for the best thing since sliced bread here. Just a reasonably good PC.

I suppose if I had to give an idea of what I want it's got to do with why I decided I need an upgrade/replacement in the first place. Recently, I've been itching to play Skyrim again after so many years. :P (My PC back then used to barely be able to run it but that one suffered through some...technical difficulties. This was many years ago.)
I'd also like it to have access to some of the newer games like Dark Souls 3 and The Witcher 3. (Again, it doesn't have to play it on 100% best graphics with everything looking near realistic. Just reasonably playable.)

I only said the budget was not an issue simply because if it was a little too much, I could always just save towards it. Not because I had all the money in the world. I'd prefer it be as cheap as possible (within reason, of course.) but is bargaining for it to around R10 000 a little too unreasonable?

And no, the screen I've got currently is fine for me. I just need everything that goes in the box. (Maybe the box as well.)

Thanks again.


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You're probably better off buying parts separate really.
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A "Professional Gaming PC"?

I somehow doubt that Virtus Pro et al would be using such a system.

Also, that price range is pretty astounding. Imagine dropping R54,000 on a PC.
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Thank you, Fluke. That is exactly the kind of help I wanted. Specific, but understandable, and it is within the price I expected it to be. I really-really appreciate it.

Also, Sev. If you have input you wish to add, I'll gladly accept any advice you might have, as two opinions give me more to work with. Or do you agree with Fluke? Regarding your offer, I'd like to see where I stand financially, before I make any decision, but I wouldn't be opposed to accepting it if everything is in favour (as you clearly know much more about these sorts of things than me.)
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When I have some time let me see what else I can find prebuilt, or cost of the sum of parts could be.
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Fluke is an esteemed champion of the PC master race! <3
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Thank you David Hasselhoff.

Unfortunately I don't have much time to myself to fix my PC however :o Logged over 100 hours of overtime so far this month.

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This is 10000, plonk in the GTX 1050 Ti for an extra R500 and you have a pretty decent PC for R10 500. It has a 2 year warranty on all parts and config, plus you can add peripherals to your order if you wish.
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Personally, I would chip in another couple hundred and get a 1060.
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Sev wrote:Personally, I would chip in another couple hundred and get a 1060.
1060 is like 1300 more
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Fluke wrote:GTX 1050 Ti
Seconded. I have this graphics card and I love it.
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Fluke wrote:
Sev wrote:Personally, I would chip in another couple hundred and get a 1060.
1060 is like 1300 more
I would definitely say that it's worth the extra Benjamin. My sister has a 1060, and it performs extremely well. Unless you are running higher than usual resolutions, it really hits that sweet spot.
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Sev wrote:
Fluke wrote:
Sev wrote:Personally, I would chip in another couple hundred and get a 1060.
1060 is like 1300 more
I would definitely say that it's worth the extra Benjamin. My sister has a 1060, and it performs extremely well. Unless you are running higher than usual resolutions, it really hits that sweet spot.
Depends if the OP is willing to spend an extra 13%+ on just a GPU upgrade. Personally I would get an RX480 for price:performance gaming. But don't think I've seen any decent pre-mades with an RX480.
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I'm ambivalent about the Modern AMD cards.

On the one hand, you get crazy performance / $, on the other, you get a louder, hotter card.
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No one really cares about 120 vs 150w used. And aftermarket coolers on the RX580 fix heat. You cannot buy a reference 580.
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So AMD left it to the manufacturers to fix up their mess. :lol:
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No.
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Random update outta the blue.

I just thought I'd thank you guys again, (though mostly only Fluke really. :v)
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