Shopping to a hard cap is a different exercise from shopping for the best machine you can afford. The ceiling is fixed, so anything extra spent on one component is taken from another, and the skill lies in knowing which trade is worth making. The target is steady 1080p play in the games most South Africans actually install.

Work in this order: graphics first, then enough processor not to hold it back, then memory, then storage. Reverse that sequence and you end up with a machine that looks well specified on paper and plays badly. Each step down the list also costs less to correct afterwards than the step above it.

The exact parts list that fits under a ceiling changes as component pricing moves, so treat any particular configuration as a snapshot and the allocation logic as the durable part. Evetech assembles each system in-house from new stock and supports it locally.