Loading the part picker…
Loading the part picker…
Compatibility-verified builds
Compatibility-verified PC builds with estimated system power draw and supply headroom.
The engine is not offered for a category until its required attributes are present for the parts listed in it. These categories are below that bar today, so picking one would produce a verdict built on rules that cannot run. The missing keys are named here rather than filled in by guesswork.
Nothing picked yet. Choose a processor and a motherboard first — socket is where most builds fail.
Select a processor to get an estimated draw. Figures come from published thermal design power, not marketing claims.
The build is the link — no account needed, and anyone who opens it sees the same verification on the same parts. Copy it:
https://hardwarehq.devcrafthouse.co.za/build-engine
Choose an archetype (gaming, office or AI/workstation) and a tier. The engine searches compatible parts inside your budget band and returns three labelled builds — best value, best performance, quietest — so the trade-off is explicit instead of hidden in a single recommendation.
Three labelled builds inside the budget band you set, each part offered only where it fits the parts already chosen; the compatibility findings raised against them, separated into errors and warnings, with a build flagged rather than presented when a rule cannot be evaluated because the catalogue is missing an attribute; the parts total including VAT; estimated system wattage built from published thermal design power, with the recommended supply minimum and the headroom above it; and a share link that re-prices the list from today's catalogue.
No frame-rate prediction is offered for any resolution, and no benchmark figure is quoted. That is the same rule the comparison table follows: this site publishes specifications and its own prices, and does not turn either into a performance claim it has not measured.
A saved build gets a link that anyone can open, carrying its parts, its findings and how its total compares with the moment it was saved. It is priced from today's catalogue every time it is opened, which is also why it is not a price hold - see Price Match & Price Lock for what a saved build does and does not guarantee.
Parts chosen by the engine are checked by the same compatibility rules applied at checkout, so a recommended build is a compatible build rather than a plausible shopping list.
Where a rule cannot be evaluated because an attribute is missing from the catalogue, the build is flagged as incomplete instead of being presented as finished. Attribute coverage is reported per component category, and the engine is not offered for a category until its required attributes are present for the parts listed in it.
Parts offered here are read from this deployment’s catalogue records, which hold the supplier feed rows alongside a small set of demonstration parts seeded before the feed arrived. Prices and stock states are ours as of today. Where a category’s required attributes are not published for enough of its parts, that category is listed above with its numbers instead of being offered with a guess filled in.