Welcome to this week’s edition of the System Builders guide boys and girls. Today we’re into the mainstream segment where most people are buying and saving up for and this is the sweet spot. At this level you’re getting some bang for your buck and there’s even some overclocking to sweeten the deal. We can also afford to shove in niceties like USB 3.0 ports, SSD drives and monster graphics cards. Unfortunately for this week, a higher exchange rate with the US Dollar does result in a few price upsets. Prices don’t change that much in South Africa on a daily basis, but the new Haswell CPU family definitely is affected by it. As such, recommending Intel’s latest and greatest chips necessitates some compromises on other parts of the system. If you’re buying your rig this week or this month, hit the jump to see what you’d be able to afford.

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As we close up the month of April with this guide, we finish off with the high-end systems that people that saved up oodles of money from their piggy bank to spoil themselves. If you’re one of those people, well done – here, you deserve a Noddy badge. For the rest of you not able to buy anything in this episode of the guide today, click through anyway to join the other NAGlings in drooling over beautiful hardware.

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So here we are with another System Builders guide and today we’re looking at rigs in the price range most people set aside for themselves to build a good computer that will play games for a long time to come. According to last year’s NAG survey the average spend of most readers on their rig is R13k, which we’ll actually have a look at today. Some price changes and new products have changed the value of these builds significantly, so if you’re interested, have a peek, if only to drool and day-dream!

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Yes, hello and welcome to the last of the System Builders Guide episodes for this year, folks. We’re just a week away from Christmas and the new year and quite frankly, I think the whole “world is gonna end, dude!” thing will just be bogus. Haters are gonna hate and they’ll probably go and find another date to settle on to restart the fear-mongering again. But anyway, here’s looking to the desktop high-end market once more to see what we can fit in.

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Welcome back boys and girls, to the second-last edition of the System Builder’s Guide! We’re exactly fourteen days away from Christmas and things are heating up in the malls and shops and even the online stores – stuff is just selling at breakneck speeds as people begin their present shopping. Some of the prices you see today may not even last for a week, so if you were thinking of buying a new tower today, you’d probably be better off with purchasing your stuff before the year’s end. With that, lets see what’s in the build lists for today.

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