1500 pounds to spend - peripherals not included

if i could find 2x4gb of ram for any normal amount of money, id tell you to go itx (i am atm, and i could do with more than 4gig of ram but im holding till prices drop)
 
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What about one of the X58 based Shuttles like the SX58J3:

http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/2010/04...ready-sx58j3-sff-desktop-is-one-mean-machine/
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its interesting, but i really dont feel like waiting until june... i've put up with my netbook for long enough!

but seeing that is kind of making me lean towards an i7 and geforce 480 based system... it might push the price beyond 1500 pounds but i suppose that the advantage of getting a 6 month old motherboard such as the rampage 2 gene could be that people have already figured out how to push it quite far by now....
perhaps the geforce 480's will be in stock together with those 'da box 100' cases? from the photos i could find the geforce 480 cards are as big as a normal radeon 5870

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and one last thing... NOISE! im working with audio as well, so it must be well quiet... and im used to the gentle whirr of the fan in my netbook, and even before that i was using watercooling to try and keep the noise down on my previous core 2 quad and geforce 8800 system... this is beginning to sound like too tall of an order, a prebuilt sff system with ~1500 pounds of hardware, which is also quiet...

if such a system is indeed undoable, what should i abandon - having it prebuilt, being an sff , being quiet ?
 
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evga micro, i7 920, 6/12gig ram, 480, solid state, 2tb hdd, decent modular psu, v35* lian li. Water if you want too. should be in budget of 1500 D:
 
If you are making a micro-ATX X58 system - I wouldn't recommend going for the EVGA micro - here is a review.

The ASUS Rampage II Gene has my vote - lovely bit of kit.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
What case are you thinking about?

There is the mATX Lan Gear Da Box 100:

http://www.techwarelabs.com/lan-gear-introduction/

It can take an HD5970:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1455817
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Haha why on earth would you buy that? I don't care what anyone shows me at an expo'. In a case that small you are going to overheat. Nomatter how fancy your fans are. Simples.
There are some amazing bundles on OC.com. I'd go for an i7 OC'd bundle and put in a mid range GPU. Gives you pleanty of cash left over for a SSD for the OS and a large storeage drive.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-214-SP
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-024-OB
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-IN&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-211-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

+ case and a DVD drive.
Should blister through anything really.
 
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because it fills a niche?people dont want massive computers, they want small ones. And that case is developed for that purpose.


and if youd look into it, cooling isnt a problem with it.
 
Invader675 said:
Haha why on earth would you buy that? I don't care what anyone shows me at an expo'. In a case that small you are going to overheat. Nomatter how fancy your fans are. Simples.
There are some amazing bundles on OC.com. I'd go for an i7 OC'd bundle and put in a mid range GPU. Gives you pleanty of cash left over for a SSD for the OS and a large storeage drive.
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thats the thing, my room aint that big and this rig needs to be small... this is another one of my concerns, that the performance of this pc isnt limited by how much i spend on it, but rather how much power i can put through it before it overheats... especially with the summer months coming up and all that, i remember back in the athlon xp days i had to clock way down when the heat wave came
i suppose that goes hand in hand with my 'well quiet' requirement too
not to mention i can boast some 'green' creds if i use less power , and my landlord would be happy about the electricity bills
but if i can get away with somehow putting watercooling or something with really fast hardware in a small case, then i'd be more than glad to do it

because the minimum requirement for my build is just that it must have 8gb of ram, it must have a >80gb ssd , it needs to be sff, and it must not suck... really prefer it to be prebuilt too

but if i do have to build it myself, well i suppose theres the living room and it almost never gets used, and if i skip all the watercooling that i used to do, this wouldnt take too long... i could either buy the lian-li pc351 for 96 pounds, or the silverstone sg02 f for 55 pounds... well, i've always wanted to try out one of those crazy huge 120mm cpu coolers, and i thought it was safer to keep the mobo horizontal in case all that weight hanging off the side would rip the cpu socket right out...
so in that sense, both these cases fit the bill, but that lian li one looks tall enough to be a more likely fit for such a cooler...
like, will the Megahalem fit onto an matx mobo?
 
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further to my previous question about the Megahalem fitting on a matx mobo.... will i at least be able to put 2 video cards in and still fit that heatsink?
i ask, because i was poking around and i found this:
http://www.thermaltake.com/product_info.aspx?PARENT_CID=C_00000047&id=C_00000255&name=LANBOX&ovid=
and it reminded me, there is a club in town with 3 or 4 projectors and they probably take dvi or vga inputs, normally they just show random crap with them or leave the projectors off... if i could get something like that ATI multi monitor setup going on in my new rig, i could routinely carry it down there and i could run the entire club's visuals from just that one computer
 
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Did you check out the review of the SX58H7 I posted earlier?? I know it is not the best value for money but it is pretty small for a Core i7 based computer. The SX58H7 has an x58 based motherboard.

BTW,I would remove the links to the cases otherwise you will be banned from the forum as this is a shop forum.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Did you check out the review of the SX58H7 I posted earlier?? I know it is not the best value for money but it is pretty small for a Core i7 based computer. The SX58H7 has an x58 based motherboard.

BTW,I would remove the links to the cases otherwise you will be banned from the forum as this is a shop forum.
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i have removed the links now

that review is just about one year old by now, and i dont feel so cool about buying discontined products... im thinking that it would almost certainly be second hand goods with no warranties or anything if its being sold for as low as 400 pounds
also, it doesnt look like its gonna fit a 5870?
 
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Psypher5 said:
ocuk only recently stopped selling them tbh
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guess i simply missed the boat on that one, i cant find anywhere selling it
but i would have preferred something abit more recent, anyways....

::edit:: found a place which sells it for abit under 500 pounds...i would buy it, but will it fit a geforce 480 or radeon 5870? that review used a geforce 280 and it already looked like it was taking up all the space...
 
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carmatic said:
guess i simply missed the boat on that one, i cant find anywhere selling it
but i would have preferred something abit more recent, anyways....
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Look in Google shopping - use the search SX58H7. Look at the compare prices link.

There are at least two well known companies who sell the SX58H7.
 
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room is small and i'd be quite busy for the next few months, so i'd appreciate it if the only thing which comes through the door was a single box with a fully filled computer case inside...
i kind of wish that oc-uk would do a sff bundle with something like the rampage 2 gene inside it... maybe do one intel sff and one amd sff...
and probably with that 'da box 100' case with a big and powerful video card in it, or maybe with that Powercolor 5870 card in a normal sff case...
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phone them and ask for a build with that mobo in it...simple
 
subbytna said:
phone them and ask for a build with that mobo in it...simple
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that would be ideal, i hope that they really let me order a computer over the phone like that

but its the bank holiday weekend coming up isnt it, hopefully this would be my last weekend using this mediocre piece of junk im typing on...
 
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