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Hey guys, I'm an old gamer from around 20 years ago, way out of touch now! I'm hoping those with more experience can offer some input on a new rig. I'm wanting something pretty small as I'd ideally like to be able to move it about a bit. The plan will be to have it run Half-life Alyx.
Here is what I'm thinking, there is not a lot of room in one of these cases. I'm aware an upgrade in the future may not be possible without changing the case, I don't think a RTX 3090 for example would fit. My plan is to get a NVIDIA RTX 3070 Founders Edition as I believe its 242 mm which should fit.
Not 100% sure about the PSU, I think the case takes a standard ATX power supply, having a modular ones makes things a little neater. I think 650w is what's recommended from NVIDIA.
I think the only compromise with such a tiny motherboard is the memory is 2666mhz but I'm not sure if its going to make that much difference vs 3200Mhz which is what I was looking at with a Micro ATX case.
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Here is what I'm thinking, there is not a lot of room in one of these cases. I'm aware an upgrade in the future may not be possible without changing the case, I don't think a RTX 3090 for example would fit. My plan is to get a NVIDIA RTX 3070 Founders Edition as I believe its 242 mm which should fit.
Not 100% sure about the PSU, I think the case takes a standard ATX power supply, having a modular ones makes things a little neater. I think 650w is what's recommended from NVIDIA.
I think the only compromise with such a tiny motherboard is the memory is 2666mhz but I'm not sure if its going to make that much difference vs 3200Mhz which is what I was looking at with a Micro ATX case.
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Asus ROG STRIX B460-I GAMING (Socket LGA 1200) DDR4 Mini-ITX Motherboard= £154.99
- 1 x Intel Core i7-10700K 3.8GHz (Comet Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - Retail= £349.99
- 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C16 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK32GX4M2A2= £119.99
- 1 x be quiet! Dark Rock TF CPU Cooler - 135/135mm= £79.99
- 1 x Jonsbo UMX1+ Black/Window ITX Case= £82.99
- 1 x Bitfenix Whisper M Series 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £89.99
- 1 x Samsung 980 Pro 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £99.95
Total: £990.19 (includes shipping: £12.30)