Cheapest prodigy build?
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8GB Ram minimum though please
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It would have been more help to say what you needed too..
A good start.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte H61N-USB3 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £66.98
1 x BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Arctic White £56.99
1 x Intel Celeron G440 1.60GHz Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £27.95
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38192M1600HC11DC) £27.95
Total : £193.37 (includes shipping : £11.25).
A good start.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte H61N-USB3 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £66.98
1 x BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Arctic White £56.99
1 x Intel Celeron G440 1.60GHz Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £27.95
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38192M1600HC11DC) £27.95
Total : £193.37 (includes shipping : £11.25).
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The words cheap and mini-itx don't really go hand in hand.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £167.99
1 x Asus P8H77-I Intel H77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 MiniITX Motherboard £83.99
1 x BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black £64.99
1 x Intel Pentium G840 2.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £56.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £31.19
Total : £405.14 (includes shipping : FREE).
I used the H77 to keep the cost down. Personally I'd want a Z77 mobo like the asrock. The H61 mobos don't do sataIII so depending on your SSD it could be wasting a lot of the speed on sataII
I used the G840 aswell to keep costs down. It's gaming performance is very close to an i3 2100 whilst being much cheaper. If you had a Z77 mobo you could look to upgrade to an i5K much later and overclock.
The 7850 is excellent bang for buck. The example I have used has a 3 year warranty, clocked higher than the cheaper sapphire card and importantly has 2GB of VRAM. These cards overclock very well so there is more performance to be had if you so wish. There are plenty of quality free to play titles on the horizon, it makes sense to pay a little more on the GPU front to cover yourself for the future. You could have course sell the included games to recoup some cash if you want to.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £167.99
1 x Asus P8H77-I Intel H77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 MiniITX Motherboard £83.99
1 x BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black £64.99
1 x Intel Pentium G840 2.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £56.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £31.19
Total : £405.14 (includes shipping : FREE).
I used the H77 to keep the cost down. Personally I'd want a Z77 mobo like the asrock. The H61 mobos don't do sataIII so depending on your SSD it could be wasting a lot of the speed on sataII
I used the G840 aswell to keep costs down. It's gaming performance is very close to an i3 2100 whilst being much cheaper. If you had a Z77 mobo you could look to upgrade to an i5K much later and overclock.
The 7850 is excellent bang for buck. The example I have used has a 3 year warranty, clocked higher than the cheaper sapphire card and importantly has 2GB of VRAM. These cards overclock very well so there is more performance to be had if you so wish. There are plenty of quality free to play titles on the horizon, it makes sense to pay a little more on the GPU front to cover yourself for the future. You could have course sell the included games to recoup some cash if you want to.
Soldato
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You are welcome. What you have to remember is that because of the layout of the mini-itx mobos, tower heatsinks can be a bad idea. Depending on their size they could possibly overhang the PCI-E slot for the GPU
If your aftermarket cooler doesn't fit then just use the retail stock heatsink. You will see that many builds using the prodigy are watercooled or indeed use a closed loop cooler.