in the market for a new toy......

rotters · 31 Mar 2008 at 05:43

looking at sff, basically can take the place of my current dvd machine, so dont mind a slightly bigger case, would like a beast of a graphics card, plus decent cpu, ram. thinking of getting a mybook external storage but if the case is big enough i would like to be able to get two tb hdd's. ive got £1600 max for this including shipping. would also need OS 64 bit as want it to recognise more than 3.5gb of ram. any of you out there know of a machine that would work for me?

would love it to be ultra quiet as going to be sitting under the tv + looks very snazzy.

rotters

hp7909 · 31 Mar 2008 at 06:45

How about...

Guardsmon · 31 Mar 2008 at 15:38

is a HTPC to big?
The Zalman 160XT and Silverstone CW03 / LC18B are both very very nice cases and are the same sorta shape and size as a DVD drive and both well within your price range if you have that much to spend

p4radox · 31 Mar 2008 at 16:35

Something like this perhaps?

Edit: I'm not sure why there are 4 case fans on that, there should only be two!

Guardsmon · 31 Mar 2008 at 18:55

Or for the more expensive taste:

and sorry I forgot the OS so add another £70.49 and you got £1550.81
(baring in mind you also might be able to find parts cheaper elsewhere - not that I'm suggesting you should.... ) Think I'm covered there

O and just remembered, I was going to through a TV card in there aswell so you could use as proper HTPC which would take it up to £1600 - knew I managed it some how.

Tute · 31 Mar 2008 at 20:41

I'd go for the Sugo personally, the cooling is brilliant and it's a smart little case.

Guardsmon · 31 Mar 2008 at 22:15

Would agree with tute that the sugo is a fantastic case, no real need to spend anywhere near what i was suggesting, all depends on what you want the computer for.