Another help spec my potential purchase thread!

[neoboy259]

Hello All

So I'm finally bored of my Alienware laptop and quite fancy a SFF for gaming. Anyone got any comments on my potential purchase?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £139.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4430 3.00GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £137.99
1 x Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT240M500SSD1) £107.99
1 x MSI Z87I Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ITX Motherboard £104.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 750W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £99.95
1 x BitFenix Prodigy 'Tiger' Mini-ITX Cube Case - Orange/Black £69.95
1 x Corsair Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMV8GX3M2A1333C9) £65.99
Total : £736.44 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[LePhuronn]

You don't need a 750W PSU for that system. The Prodigy is huge for a Mini ITX case - you're not using any watercooling or lots of 3.5" drives so the case will be empty.

Personally I'd go for a Sugo SG08-Lite and put in the SuperFlower 550W or Corsair Builder 500W PSU.

Or if you really want a Prodigy, go for the Prodigy-M and build a Micro ATX rig - you can probably get a SLI/Crossfire compatible Z87 board for the same money or less than the Mini ITX you've listed.

But even then I'd say get a Silverstone Temjin TJ08E-B case instead - personally the Prodigy has never done anything for me.