[Budget] 2.5k, need a complete set including rig, monitor, speakers and win8 software

[Purpose] Gaming and occasional photoshop or video rendering

[Hardware that will be reuse from old rig] None

[Monitor resolution] Not on my priority list now, a decent 1600x900 monitor is enough for me

[Game or software that use frequently] BF3, D2, Photoshop

[Personal Preference Brand] I'm open to all brands

[Location] Kuching, parts are hard to find here

This post has been edited by TheLaptopDudeGuy: May 24 2013, 09:36 AM

By considering limited brand and stocks, try

Intel i3 3220 RM344
GIGABYTE B75M-D3V RM225
Kingston 4gb ram RM94
WD Blue 500gb RM164
Gigabyte 7770 OC RM479
Xigmatek Tauro 500W RM199
Any DVD-RW RM59
Any Casing you like RM150

MS WIN 8 oem (64bit) RM349
Any Speaker RM100
Acer V205HL led 20" Monitor RM300

Total RM2467

**Local price in kch may vary, so some headroom are given.

planning to buy today :

intel g2020
asrock b75m
sapphire hd7750
any ddr3 ram.

guys,

im using my old psu unit, tatu 450W normal psu.
my old psu still can work with the new mobo? or do i need to buy new psu?

As long as it have 24pin and 4pin power for motherboard it should be fine. However, I suggest better a get another PSU that offer true power and reliability since this brand i nv heard of it.

Can work but I highly recommend u to change psu to something reputable like
FSP 500w -RM149

Thank you for the setup, i mixed up your recommendation and the one on the front page and ended up with a 2k setup which over at kch cost about 2.4k.

You may try to ask a quote from pc image via email to check price if lazy to pay a visit to their shop. But their respond is quite random, take few days sometime.

There cannot get sapphire 7770?
Just rm 349 instead of 479

Hi guys, just realize the existence of this thread, after receiving comments from other forumers, this is my dekstop build, 80% gaming purpose and mayb rendering as well. is it ok for a 3k budget to build this gaming rig?

Processor Core i5 3570 4 Cores/4 Way/GMA HD SC:1155 | GHz:3.40 | cache:6M ====[RM610]
Motherboard MSI B75MA-P45 =============================[RM229]
RAM APACER D3 PC1333 (8gb ram 1pieces)====================[RM155]
HDD 1TB W.D. BLUE 32M 7200 RPM SATA 6.0====================[RM180]
GPU LEADTEK GTX670 2GB D5 256BIT=======================[RM1050]
Power supply Corsair 650W VS ( A/80+)======================[RM259]
Casing COOLER MASTER ELITE SERIES CASING ================[RM149]
Monitor Asus 24" VS247N ===============================[RM600]

Totall all added up was RM3252, i might spend another RM150 on stuff like keyboard,mouse and speaker

So total final is RM3402............

BTW,i got few question to ask since my topic have quite slow reply from the forumers,

1. Is leadtek gtx670 good? because it have the lowest price compare with other brand like asus, gigabyte, palit...
2. Why most of the ppl choose to buy 660 or 680 instead? there are very few amount ppl targetting 670.....
3. MY budget is actually around 2.9k, which mean this has already exceeded my figure, i am fine to pay it up to 3.4k, but is it really worth my money to build this dekstop for 80% gaming purpose, rendering ?


Thank you.

Yes it's a good build overall
1.leadteak us just as good as others it's just cheaper because it uses reference designs
2. 670 is a great you actually and can be overclocked to 680 performance
3. The configuration is good and worth it

thx for ur reply, but i saw some comments from tomshardware, there are ppl suggesting not to OC leadtek GTX 670 due to the poor cooler they have, and they got no backplate which i dun even know what was that. Most of the ppl suggest to take asus and gigabyte if really wan to OC [FYI, my gaming room is quite hot btw, that why my laptop is busted]

so the question here, are you going to OC your card?

if not, then leadtek will do just fine i guess

Unless he asked the shop to help back-to-back order.
PC Image doesnt carry Sapphire products anymore, not sure why.

You can have a look on a GTX670 review to see if it meets your requirement for game setting.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_670/

If way too much, just pick a slightly slower gpu GTX660 or 660 ti for budget saving.

in future, might be..... u know nowadays game requirement are getting higher and higher

Leadtek 670 = stock 670
So it have a stock cooler
No good for overclocking but are u going to overclock?

in future , maybe yes

Get a sapphire 7970ghz

not really into AMD GPU after heard so many negative comment from the internet, is it really good? how much it cost? why u suggesting this GPU btw, thank you

what negative comment?
anyway, if you search in google GTX xxx issue or HD 7xxx issue,
there are tons of issues user having that might as well don't buy any of the graphic cards

still, which issues are you referring to anyway?

yeah its a good card, can check up the reviews.

basically AMD GPU are cheaper at the same par of performance within the same tier of Nvidia