Show Us Your Rig [2]

Alsisgevat said:

Yeah,i know what you mean,but you can get the asus rog maximus gene for R2000,so only 300 more than you want to spend...and why do you want amd? Don't like the power of intell...? Oh and have a look at prophecyshop,free delivery and very good prices.

I've got no problem with Intel, most of my friends have them.. Honestly, I'm just an AMD fan boy. :) I know Intel chips perform better than AMD these days, and that AMD have been playing the catch-up game for quite a few years, but if you look at price vs performance, AMD are still cheaper.

I did do quite a lot of searching; Matrix Warehouses, PC Zone, Prophecy Shop, RebelTech, Zaps, Takealot (used to be Take2), even looked at our suppliers through work (where I can get anything at cost less VAT), RebelTech were the cheapest for the CPU and Motherboard I want, and Takealot were cheapest for the RAM I want.

Zepher said:

I decided to toss my setup in the trash since it was just too big and cumbersome and went with a smaller and slimmer rig that is very portable.

When does the trash get taken out....? And to where? I think I should go ambush that truck..

pparks1 said:

Nothing wrong with being an AMD fanboy. I generally speaking do have to agree on AMD being cheaper in price for performance. If you are building a flat out cheapest possible budget rig, the AMD is cheaper. However, a Core i5-2500k (~$210) will run circles around an AMD1100T (~$195) and it's only around 8% more expensive. For me, I'd rather spend $15 more and get way more performance.

It's no secret that Intel are way ahead in the tech game, so to be fair, that comparison is a tad unfair... The Phenom II range was out along side Intel's previous generation chips. All they've really done since the second generation i3, i5 and i7 chips is up the speeds of their existing chips, they haven't changed architecture in a long time.

On the price side of things, the best price I can find locally for the i5 2500k is R2153.67 (Google currency conversion: $269), while the x6 1100T is R1982.92 ($248).. It's pretty much pointless buying overseas because of customs and shipping costs, so getting a Phenom II x4 970 locally for R1447.35 ($181) is actually a nice deal...

Edit: Oh, and please don't get me started on our local postal service's track record for damaging contents on international parcels.... I just recently ended up spending nearly R700 in postage and customs fees for a set of Magic the Gathering cards that only cost R400 to start with. I've had the same experience with 6 items bought online for my PC in the last year, that being out of a total of 10 items...

linnemeyerhere said:

Gromit, That's a very sweet rig and who do you think your kidding.....it cost a arm and some of a leg !

Ha! Well yeah.. it did. But this rig cost only one arm. I would have had to give up both arms, a leg and my first born child to Dell for a system that barely came close and still would have been shipped an onboard GPU!



Thanks to all! I got seriously lucky with the LED colors of everything. I really did not even plan or think of that. The component gods smiled and gave me all the same color and hue!