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Answer» What budget? 350€ What country? Belgium Current build Intel Core i5-4670K - 3.4GHz - Socket 1150 1 €199,99 €199,99 ASUS GeForce GTX760-DC2OC-2GD5 - 2GB - PCI-E 1 €219,95 €219,95 ASUS Z87-K - Socket 1150 - ATX 1 €97,99 €97,99 Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - 120 mm 1 €24,95 €24,95 Western Digital Blue - 1TB 1 €54,90 €54,90 Western Digital Blue - 1TB 1 €54,90 €54,90 SSD 128GB 300/520 PX-128M6S SA3 PLE € 78,84 Zalman Z11 Plus Black - Midi Tower 1 €61,95 €61,95 Seasonic M12II-620 Bronze - 620 Watt 1 €67,95 €67,95 Crucial - Geheugen - 8 GB : 2 x 4 GB - DIMM 1 €69,95 €69,95 I WANT to use a smaller case because I move frequently and the Zalman Z11 is a big case, I'm selling the case, gpu, mobo but don't know what parts I should buy to replace them. additional details I want: a very small case with a handle. A gpu that will fit in it and won't be worse than a GTX 760 A mobo that will fit in the case with 3 sata ports, pcie 16x I also have 2 more questions: Is the 212 EVO cooler going to be a problem? Do I also have to replace the PSU? I'm also not afraid of 2nd hand stuff. It really comes down to how small you want to go, if you don't mind losing most of your expansion slots you could go down to the ITX level with a case such as a BitFenix Prodigy. Alternatively MicroATX may be a decent compromise between expandability and size. I wouldn't bother selling your GPU just yet, chances are you'll be able to find an ITX/MicroATX case that will fit a 760 without issue. Your cooler may be a bit big so you will need to figure this out once you decide on a case. Quote from: camerongray on August 02, 2015, 05:29:01 AM It really comes down to how small you want to go, if you don't mind losing most of your expansion slots you could go down to the ITX level with a case such as a BitFenix Prodigy. Alternatively MicroATX may be a decent compromise between expandability and size. I want it to be as small possible with all the parts I have, there is not going to be any more expansion, It's COOL to hear though that I can keep the gtx 760 even if it's 21.84cm long. edit: I found one 2nd hand http://www.2dehands.be/computer-game-consoles/computer-onderdelen/behuizingen-kasten/bitfenix-prodigy-black-mini-itx-case-239226936.html What mobo would you recommend? I am kind of curious as to how small you will be able to go before your system is unable to be a gaming system due to MANY ITX based cases generally have small power supply compartments or come with their own slim power supplies that are only 250-300 watts etc such as the Shuttle ITX platform case. I have built up some ITX builds before and they are ok for the average workstation, but your sacrificing PCI and PCIE slots as well as other features to have the smaller platform. I built up a ITX build for a friend who wanted to go as small as possible once. He was happy with it until he decided to buy a high end sound card for it and it couldn't install. His ITX board only had a single PCI Express 16x slot and so he was stuck with the integrated audio or use of a USB audio adapter which wouldn't be of any better quality to that of integrated. He had to upgrade to a mATX to be able to install the sound card that he wanted to use as well as the ITX case wouldn't take a mATX board so he had to go with a different case. He was able to move his CPU and RAM over to the mATX, but his ITX board and case became junk to him and when he tried to sell them on ebay he didn't get much for the ITX board and case because there is no high demand for painting yourself into an upgrade corner type build of an ITX. ITX builds are great for a space saving HTPC, low cost server, or workstation, but I have yet to find an ITX build that is what I would suggest as a good gaming setup. I would suggest a mATX motherboard with a small tower case. This will allow adequate space for video card, tall heatsink on CPU, and ROOM to route CABLES without it being a twisted ball of wiring inside. Quote I want: My thoughts on this are that you could always add a handle to the top of the case. You would want to do this before you install all components and be sure after drilling the 2 holes that the metal filings are gone to avoid short circuits. A handle of whatever design you want could be added to the top of the case and anchored to the case with the 2 screws that come with the handle. *You might want to add 2 washers between the screws and the inside of the case so that the weight of the case is distributed over a larger area so that the soft case metal doesn't allow for the screw heads to pull through the thin soft metal. ** some handles come preformed with threaded studs on them I which nuts are added. There are less common for handles but I have seen them. If you are able to go this route with a handle I would use lock nuts to avoid the handle coming loose as well as washers between the lock nuts and inside of the top if the minitower case to distribute the weight. One problem you might face with a small case and a gaming grade video card is that the video cards length may conflict with extra HDD bays internally to the case. I went with a mATX build for my latest 8-core 4Ghz gaming system and ran into an issue with my Geforce GTX 260 conflicting with the extra HDD bays internal to the case to install 3 HDD's if you wanted. I just am using the single HDD bay and so I cut out the extra HDD bays that are part of the internal chassis form with a dremmel tool, and then blew the metal filings and dust out with compressed air and then installed all components because the long video card conflicted with about a 1 inch space that the extra bays were occupying. Here is the older video card that I am still using that runs the games I play fine on the 8-core AMD FX-8350 4Ghz build http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130398 Quote from: verystrengt on August 02, 2015, 06:07:04 AM I want it to be as small possible with all the parts I have, there is not going to be any more expansion, It's cool to hear though that I can keep the gtx 760 even if it's 21.84cm long. Looks good! The Prodigy can take video cards up to 320mm in length - You may need to remove the top hard drive cage to fit this in but even then you will still have 2 3.5" bays as well as several 2.5" bays. As far as the motherboard goes, something like the Asus Z97I-PLUS or the Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WIFI would both be good options. If you want to use WiFi I'd recommend getting a board with it built in since you won't have a spare PCI-E slot for a dedicated wireless card. Quote from: camerongray on August 02, 2015, 07:08:51 AM Looks good! The Prodigy can take video cards up to 320mm in length - You may need to remove the top hard drive cage to fit this in but even then you will still have 2 3.5" bays as well as several 2.5" bays. I like the wifi built in but is it also possible to have 4x ramslots? Or is that going to cost a lot moreYou won't be able to find an ITX board with 4 RAM slots, you may find one if you went to the larger MicroATX size but this obviously means a physically larger system. |
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