Check my Mini-ITX build

gizmo1990 · 30 Jun 2018 at 21:26

I'm putting together a mini-itx build and I'd really appreciate someone giving it the once over to check that I'm good compatability wise and that I'm not missing something better/cheaper. I've not done this for a while so I'm not completely up on the latest tech and terminology.

The build's purpose is to be as budget as possible currently, yet within the confines of providing a platform to upgrade well into the future.

Intel 8th Gen Core i3-8100
Gigabyte Intel Z370N WIFI Mini-itx
ARCTIC Liquid Freezer 120
8GB Corsair DDR4 Value Select, PC4-17000

The componants will be going in an old Silverstone SG05 chassis, with a SFX silverstone 450w PSU. I'm not planning on putting a modern video card in there yet due to cost so probably something like a old GT 710. These SFX PSUs should be quite power efficient, so I'm hoping it will be enough to power everything?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

gizmo1990 · 30 Jun 2018 at 22:02

@tamzzy Nice!

Thank you, I'll check it out. That will be a considerable saving. Shame it's not in stock currently, hopefully it will be back soon.

gizmo1990 · 30 Jun 2018 at 22:23

A quick question regarding modern motherboards and ram. Do you need to put ram in in pairs? Just wondered if that was still a thing or if I could just use 1 stick of 8gb?

gizmo1990 · 30 Jun 2018 at 23:11

@tamzzy That's very interesting, thanks! If I went down the single route for now, would it be possible to buy a matched module later? Or is that only possible when buying pairs at the same time?

gizmo1990 · 1 Jul 2018 at 12:11

@tamzzy Great, thanks again. I think I might go the 8gb single module route for now then. I'll likely go to 16gb at some point and this will solve the faff of selling the old 2x4gb modules.