Case bought - spec me a mini-itx motherboard

JRJ · 29 Mar 2015 at 21:19

Having planned a matx system and not being able to settle on a case I some how ordered a Silverstone Sg13 last night purely on the size of the case.

Could somebody please spec me a mini-itx motherboard, intel chip and ram?

I have no interest in overclocking, only light gaming and some photo editing, doesn't need to be top of the range but fast enough to last a few years, built in wireless would be nice to save a port but not absolutely necessary.

JRJ · 30 Mar 2015 at 10:25

Is £300ish reasonable?

JRJ · 30 Mar 2015 at 14:27

Thanks Legion, lot of board for the money I'll do some more research, what chip should I get?

JRJ · 30 Mar 2015 at 14:38

Could somebody give me a dummies rundown on the meaning of z87, z99 etc etc?

JRJ · 30 Mar 2015 at 22:10

I assume so its Adobe Lightroom 4, light gaming will only be COD now and again, off the top of my head I've got a 4670 I believe in my current system which handles COD and will probably use that for now and upgrade it in the future.

To be fair that Msi z87 looks well specced for 70 quid for the gaming version

JRJ · 31 Mar 2015 at 00:27

£59 delivered for the Msi Z87i Gaming, bargain thanks for the help Legion, just to get the rest sorted now

JRJ · 31 Mar 2015 at 10:44

Case arrived, its tiny compared to my tower.

With regards to Ram would I have any issues putting a single 8gb stick in and adding a second at a later date?

JRJ · 1 Apr 2015 at 10:28

Appreciate the help legion, I've been reading some threads and people are recommending the Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor, how much more will the i5 4460 give more over this processor?

JRJ · 2 Apr 2015 at 05:54

After spending most of the day reading and comparing prices I went for a i5 4690k as the cost difference was tiny, with a Corsair H90 and 2 x 4gb of Hyperx Savage ddr3 1866mhz.

All I need to do now is decide on an Ssd and operating system