how much does it costs for the next tier? a good one

Budget] RM1.5k to RM2k without monitor.Will top up RM300 - RM500 separately for monitor.

[Purpose] Work & Light Gaming

[Hardwares that will be re-use] Only my 3 SATA HDD

[Monitor resolution] Full HD

[Games & softwares that use frequently] Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom - sometimes only. FIFA & Football Manager.

[Personal preferences] Need a PC which is upgradable in future, hence need a mobo with a better specs. Might be using 2 monitor simultaneously.

[Location] KL

My current 8 years old rig couldn't cope up anymore. Need a new rig asap. Main usage will be Illustrator & Photoshop. Minor usage on Lightroom. Not into gaming for the moment, but prefer a spec which can play FIFA.

Need a SSD and might be adding another SATA HDD soon so need a mobo which have enough sata ports and casing with sufficient slots for HDD.

Thanks in advance to all the sifus.

Samsung 500GB SSD 850 EVO - RM 830

Hey everyone, I am new to malaysia and will be in miri sarawak soon,
I need help to build my PC.

[Budget] RM2K~2.5K whether with or without monitor

[Purpose] Gaming + Study + Torrent

[Hardwares that will be re-use] none

[Games & softwares that use frequently] WOT, LOL, Civilizations, GTA

[Personal preferences] Intel i54400

[Location] Miri

I'd appreciate if someone can help me in to tell where to buy these parts in Miri

Also, with that limited budget, I like to look for any good second hand GPU

Thank you advance

Awaiting your reply

Said

Expect next tier to be around RM 800+ like Samsung 850 EVO.

Upgradeability depends on many factors, for processor part, if next gen processor still uses 1151 socket then you can upgrade it, for RAM slots, it got 4 so don't think you can max it out so fast yet. For GPU part, it has PCI-E 3.0 and can support any modern GPU now so no worries there too.

Intel Core i5 6400 - RM 792
Gigabyte B150M-D3H (D4) - RM 403
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 196
Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB SSD - RM 209
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 188
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 185

Total: RM 1973 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

BenQ GW2270 - RM 429

Dedicated GPU is not included, the iGPU of Skylake is quite powerful to handle modern games at low/medium settings at playable frame rate, it is either you go this path and add a dedicated GPU later when you have more funds or go with Core i3 and a low end GPU (not recommended in the long run).

I am not from Sarawak so I don't know where to get PC parts there but most of the citizens of Sabah & Sarawak buy their PC from Peninsular Malaysia and have their rig shipped from Peninsular Malaysia to their doorstep due to wider hardware choice in Peninsular Malaysia.

Let me know if you are ok with this, if are ok then I will proceed to rig suggestion.

Hai just want to ask.. Can we get price in lowyat just like TechView or cheaper?

Different seller different price, it is impossible to have similar price unless they follow the MSRP.

Without monitor
Intel Core i3 6100 - RM 492
Gigabyte H110M-DS2 (D4) - RM 289
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 196
Zotac GTX750Ti 2GB GDDR5 ZT-70605-10M - RM 509
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 188
Bitfenix Nova - RM 149

Total: RM 2038 (ETech price inclusive of GST)


Terrence, is this spec you suggested good enough for max setting for dota 2?
also if i wanna change the 1TB HDD to let's say 160gb SSD and include the price for windows as well roughly how much would it cost in total?

please advice.
thanking you in advance.

Yes no problem to get 1080p60.

Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB SSD - RM 209

Windows OS price depends on which version you are going to get, Windows 10 Home OEM is around RM 300 (if you get from retail shop), they will install a trial version for you if I am not mistaken, you can confirm with them.

noted. thank you.

Can recommend me a SSD price below RM500? Best performance/price ratio.

Hi thanks for the reply. Would like to ask about the processor, is i5 6400 really worth the price if compared with i3 6100 ?
Did some google search and found this review, Im not sure whether its trust able or not. Here is he link : i3 vs i5 . From the website I found that both having almost same performance, i5 do have slight advantage. Will i5 6400 bring huge difference in term of performance compared to i3 ? Thanks once again.

It depends on your usage, i3 is dual core with 2 extra virtual threads while i5 is quad core.

If usage or workload isn't too heavy, then i3 is enough.

If you play latest triple A titles, you will notice CPU usage is pretty high now and some of them are even bashing all the cores of i5 to 100% usage.

If you plan to get a powerful GPU in the future, go for i5, so you don't have to upgrade the i3 to i5 to reduce the bottleneck.

hi terrance, ofc
please let me know what are your suggestions for a budget of (with monitor) = 3500 RM

in my home country (iraq), i had a good run with used msi gtx 760, so if can get the same (even if used). it would be great

also, how to pay? it will be some time till i open a bank account in miri

cheers

You can make payment via online bank transfer.

Ermm, your initial post stated max 2.5k budget, so I assume it is not a typo and you have increased the budget to 3.5k.

Intel Core i5 6400 - RM 792
Gigabyte B150M-D3H (D4) - RM 403
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 196
Zotac GTX960 2GB GDDR5 ZT-90302-10M - RM 867
Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB SSD - RM 209
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 188
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 185
BenQ GW2270 - RM 429

Total: RM 3484 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

You can contact ETech here or here.

Other shops that you can consider are Techview, Idealtech etc.

Many thanks, bruh

Best of luck

hi sifus, its been a long time since i seek advice from here. a friend of mine wanted to build a rig,
budget around rm5k,
gaming purpose,
no monitors or other peripheral needed.

thank you in advance

forgot to add,
suggest me oc and non oc rig
also amd build and intel build (gpu prefer amd)

This post has been edited by sirknieghf: Feb 25 2016, 10:55 AM

may i know which gpu is better ?
Radeon R280 vs Asus GTX750Ti in term of performance and prices ?