Kepong.

http://www.lelong.com.my/Merchant/easyit2u.htm

Intel Core i3 6100 - RM 490
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 198
Sapphire RX460 4GB GDDR5 Nitro - RM 699
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 287
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 209
FSP Hexa+ 450W - RM 166
Tecware Alpha - RM 199
BenQ GW2470H - RM 473

Total: RM 2966 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

OS is not included, not sure which version you need, but you can get it cheaper in Garage Sales section.

If you plan to buy in Penang, you can look for GTech (hikari85) in Butterworth but price might be slightly higher than Klang Valley area.

I will ditch the i5-K to i7 anytime, this will reduce the cost significantly (no need Z170, 3rd party cooler, high speed RAM and potential OC worries) and add the money into the 4K monitor funds

Based on 2.5k budget.

Intel Core i5 6400 - RM 802
Gigabyte B150M-D3H (D4) - RM 379
Kingston 16GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 396
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB SSD - RM 190
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 209
Superflower Leadex Silver 550W - RM 339
Tecware Alpha - RM 199

Total: RM 2514 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

For 2k one, you can drop the 8GB RAM, SSD and get a cheaper PSU.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 850
Gigabyte H170-HD3 - RM 479
GSKill Aegis 8GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM - RM 199
Gigabyte GTX1050Ti 6GB GDDR5 - RM 759
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB SSD - RM 349
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 219
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 199
NZXT S340 Razer - RM 479

Total: RM 3533 (Idealtech price inclusive of GST)

You can consider getting a better PSU if you don't mind spending the extra.

AIO CPU water cooler doesn't have significant profile difference, all of them come with a radiator (120/140/240/280mm etc), a pump, pipe and casing fan (optional).

The cheapest one is probably ID Cooling, I haven't tested it personally yet so I am not sure about the performance of this cooler, high end CPU air cooler might beat it in terms of efficiency.

The next "safest" or branded one should be CM Seidon 120V and Corsair H55.

Intel Core i5 6400 - RM 802
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 198
Palit GTX1050Ti 4GB GDDR5 StormX - RM 728
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
FSP Hexa+ 450W - RM 166
Tecware Alpha White - RM 199
BenQ GW2470H - RM 473

Total: RM 3026 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

GTX1050Ti doesn't have 6GB version, Idealtech pricelist has a typo on this

It's either GTX1060 6GB or RX480 8GB for 1k - 1.5k budget, if you don't mind getting a used card, then GTX980Ti 6GB or GTX1070 8GB can be considered too, they are marginally faster than GTX1060 and RX480.

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In general speaking, it shouldn't have any major issue when running latest triple A titles on max or near max settings IF the title you play is well optimized or at least not a poor console port.

Not sure about the free Windows, but most of the PC shops will install a trial version to test the rig to ensure all hardware components are working and detectable in OS.

Intel Core i5 6402P - RM 732
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 198
Palit GTX1060 3GB GDDR5 Dual - RM 938
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 188
Tecware Alpha - RM 199

Total: RM 2715 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Ask the shopkeeper to waive the RM 15 so the total cost wouldn't go over 2.7k

Intel Pentium G4400 - RM 225
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Kingston 4GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 112
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
CM Elite Power 350W - RM 126
Armageddon T1x - RM 95

Total: RM 1018 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

For the 1.5k rig, you can just add a Palit/Zotac branded GTX750Ti (less than RM 500) into the 1k rig, bump the RAM to 8GB if needed and budget allows.

Ermm I think there is a typo there right? Should be 6600K.

6600K is an unlocked quad core CPU, 6700 is a locked quad core with multithreading technology support.

In theory, if you bump the 6600K to 4.5GHz, it should be faster than 6700 but this doesn't apply to all real life application out there, some games/apps do utilize the multithreading technology and take full advantage of it.

Take note that overclocking the 6600K to match or overtake the performance of 6700 will require a good Z170 mobo, a decent CPU cooler (stock cooler won't cut it) and PSU (not really a problem since overclocking doesn't consume too much power nowadays).

360W max output on 12V rails, so yes this PSU is able to run a single GTX1060 provided you don't have any other high consumption components installed in the rig.

Yea the CPU package does come with 1 Intel HSF (stock cooler) while the casing comes with 2 casing fans (1 intake 1 exhaust).

The TDP for GTX1060 is just 120W and it only requires 1 x 6 pin PCIe power cable, even those cards with the extra 2 pin are also very hard to go beyond this limit. My advise is to play safe, even we know there is a very high chance that the GPU won't be using the extra power from the last 2 pin, it is still better to get something that is compatible with each other.

So it either just stick with 6 pin card or upgrade the PSU and get a 8 pin card (this will double the cost which isn't worth at all).

It will increase power draw but not much for light and mild overclocking, but don't worry too much, your CPU aren't staying at the overclocked speed for 24/7 and skyrocket your bill, if it really does increase the bill by a margin that isn't acceptable by you (or the one who is paying the bill), just underclock the CPU to stock speed if you aren't using any CPU demanding software (or adaptive power management)

VGA to HDMI involves analog to digital signal convertion, it depends on the quality of the cable, if you aren't too picky on the quality then you will be fine, it wouldn't cause any noticeable lag or slow down, only slightly less quality images will be rendered on the screen in the worst case.

Intel Core i5 6402P - RM 732
ASRock H110M-ITX - RM 278
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 198
Zotac GTX1050Ti 4GB GDDR5 Mini - RM 729
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
Corsair VS450 - RM 162
CM Elite 110 - RM 158

Total: RM 2472 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

If you need SSD, then you can downgrade the i5 to i3 6098P/6100 (around RM 480) and add a 240GB SSD (around RM 300).

Signal convertion will take place if VGA is involved, so there is no difference between DVI and HDMI to VGA, both will need to convert analog signal to digital signal and vice versa.

6K is a very healthly budget and can have many potential builds for your workload, it is not necessary to follow all the parts listed below, you can always customize it to match your own requirements.

Intel Core i7 6700 - RM 1336
Gigabyte H170-HD3 (D4) - RM 446
Kingston 16GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 396
Palit GTX1060 6GB GDDR5 Dual Fan - RM 1238
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 296
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
Superflower Leadex Gold 550W - RM 409
Tecware Alpha - RM 199
Dell U2515H 2K IPS - RM 1389

Total: RM 5924 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

This post has been edited by terence_nwb: Oct 27 2016, 08:38 PM

Superflower is the OEM for many PSU brands out there, so no worries on this, in fact the specific model that I've chosen is a top tier (grade A) PSU that is available at a very affordable price in the local market.

Not all EVGA PSU are made equally, some of the low end EVGA models are just so-so and EVGA doesn't manufacture/produce PSU at all, they outsource the manufacturing process to other PSU OEM like Superflower, FSP and Seasonic, what they do is just simply apply their brand name sticker (and other info) on the PSU itself and do the packaging before they ship it to the retailers

GTX1070 which packs more CUDA cores (33% more) than GTX1060, this will certainly help in those GPU oriented operation/process, but first you will have to find out whether your workload involves all those heavy GPU bounded stuffs or not first, if no then GTX1060 should be enough.

This post has been edited by terence_nwb: Oct 27 2016, 09:12 PM

Intel Core i3 6098P - RM 453
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 198
Corsair VS450 - RM 162
Tecware F3 - RM 119

Total: RM 1177 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Since you still have some budget left, you can add a 120GB SSD if needed.

Kingston UV400 240GB is less than RM 300

For the upgrade part, what games do you play? If only Dota 2/CS:GO or light weight games then you can just go for the newly released GTX1050Ti (around RM 750). And about the cooler, do you overclock your CPU?

New rig based on i7:

Intel Core i7 6700 - RM 1336
Gigabyte B150M-D3H (D4) - RM 379
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 198
Zotac GTX1050Ti 4GB GDDR5 Mini - RM 729
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 290
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
Corsair VS450 - RM 162
Tecware Alpha - RM 199

Total: RM 3508 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Spending money in an aged AMD FX CPU is quite risky due to inconsistent gaming performance across all the titles in the market, if the games that you play is optimized to run on the multicore architecture of FX6300 then it will pull ahead in i3 (or same par with it). i3 will give you a more stable performance and less headache in current context.

3rd party is not needed if you don't overclock the FX CPU. An i3 is always an i3 (2C4T, desktop SKU), you cannot simply "upgrade" it to i5 (4C4T) by just adding a SSD, SSD is just a storage disk and it contributes nothing to CPU computation other than just a much faster I/O performance than standard HDD. The "core" between Intel and AMD is not the same, you cannot compare them directly as they are built under different architectures.

450W is enough for GTX1050Ti, the TDP is just 75W (for stock reference specs).

Intel Core i3 6100 - RM 490
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 198
Zotac GTX1050Ti 4GB GDDR5 Mini - RM 729
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB SSD - RM 190
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
Corsair VS450 - RM 162
Tecware F3 - RM 119

Total: RM 2348 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

You can "downgrade" the i3 6100 to i3 6098P to save some money if you wish, i3 6098P is just 0.1GHz slower than i3 6100 and comes with a weaker iGPU (HD510) which isn't important at all if you have a dedicated GPU.

This post has been edited by terence_nwb: Oct 29 2016, 11:02 PM

You want to upgrade your processor and GPU but didn't mention the mobo you have, I need to know the mobo model so I can point you the correct direction to go.

LGA1155 socket, quite aged, have to search for used LGA1155 CPU if you want to keep the mobo (save cost).

I noticed you asked for "Can give some suggestions for a cheap mini itx gaming desktp for uni?", so you want to upgrade your current rig to mITX or it's another new rig based on mITX? Confused

This post has been edited by terence_nwb: Oct 30 2016, 03:37 PM