Spec me a - Mini ITX Build

Budget around £4-500, for a home user for scanning email, no need for fancy graphics but a decent motherboard would be good for taking more modern parts/cpu's etc. Possibility of adding a graphics card at a later date, but for now onboard will do..

Father has a Dell u2512h so only has DP/HDMI in, surprised to see so many mini itx with vga / dvid connectors, whats that all about?


Current ideas are:

Asus H110I-PLUS D3 Socket LGA1151 £68.51
Intel Core i3-6320 3.90GHz £129.99
Corsair 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz Vengeance Memory £35.99
Lian Li PC-Q10 Mini-ITX Case 104.99
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB SSD 60.99
EVGA 430W Fully Wired 80+ Power Supply 33.99

Total: £434.46


But wouldn't mind spending the extra and going down the m.2 route, if so which motherboard would be suitable?


Thanks

M2 will not make your email load any quicker, and an i3 seems like significant overkill for that kind of usage.

How about this? Slightly dearer but comes with better chipset, DDR4 RAM and an M.2, with modular PSU to keep things tidy.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-6320 3.90GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £129.95
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/8)= £35.99
• 1 x Raijintek Metis - Windowed - Black Mini ITX Case= £39.95
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power L8 430W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Buil= £55.99
• 1 x Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e Gen3 8Gbps x 4 AHCI Solid State Drive (MZHPV256HDGL-00000)= £125.99

OJ46 said:

How about this? Slightly dearer but comes with better chipset, DDR4 RAM and an M.2, with modular PSU to keep things tidy.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-6320 3.90GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £129.95
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/8)= £35.99
• 1 x Raijintek Metis - Windowed - Black Mini ITX Case= £39.95
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power L8 430W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Buil= £55.99
• 1 x Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e Gen3 8Gbps x 4 AHCI Solid State Drive (MZHPV256HDGL-00000)= £125.99

Total: £510.16
(includes shipping: £12.30)
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Cheers.

Went for most of these parts... Got it built, plugged in the power and boom - sparks flew out of the PSU, i hope its just the psu thats gone and not the whole machine , whats the rma process like with OC?

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OcUK are brilliant for RMA's, if the PSU is faulty they'll replace it instantly, no probs at all. Doesn't sound good though, hope it hasn't damaged anything else

for your needs this is overkill.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x **B Grade** Xigmatek Nebula C Mini-ITX Case - White= £39.95
• 1 x Asus H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard= £58.99
• 1 x Intel Pentium G3460 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £68.99
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX318C10FWK2/8)= £29.99
• 1 x XFX TS 430W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply - Black ** 5 YEAR WARRANTY OCUK EXCLUSIVE **= £30.95
• 1 x Kingston 240GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/= £55.99

OJ46 said:

OcUK are brilliant for RMA's, if the PSU is faulty they'll replace it instantly, no probs at all. Doesn't sound good though, hope it hasn't damaged anything else

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Yeah so do.i, the process of elimination can be painful

Really.. Save £401 and get this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...ndows-8.1-upgradeable-to-windo-fs-010-in.html

What if I wanted to game with this machine, what CPU would I need min -i5 presumably and I'd need a graphics card that would fit into the above Mini itx case?

A short GTX 1060 or 1070 should do you just fine; I didn't spot any short RX 470 or 480 cards. You can probably get away without a CPU upgrade for now.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £245.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x be quiet! Shadow Rock LP Low Profile CPU Cooler - 120mm= £34.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 ITX Edition 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1070IXOC-8GD)= £399.95