Is Such A Thing Possible ?

[nheather]

Is it possible to build a PC for gaming that would sit in a normal TV stand.

I know how to build tower PCs but here we would be talking something in a box more like the size of a Sky Receiver or XBox and I'm not sure that is possible from a physical size point of view and for cooling for a reasonable performance.

Now when we talk about performance I'm not talking about anything amazing - even on my desktop performance is modest and I run on a single 1080 screen. If I could match that I would be happy.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

Any specific size the case has to be? Also what is your budget?

Doesn't have to be tiny - not sure what is possible - say 500x350x150 (WxDxH). Could probably accommodate the taller, narrower type boxes as well. Depth is the real limit - around 350mm.

Budget - say up to £1000.

For the most part, I would effectively be building a Steam Box.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

Sign of the times of how old you are when you see someone who doesn't know about what desktop cases used to look like before towers were available.

Are you talking about me - I pre-date IBM XTs so I know what they used to look like - though I think they would have been too deep.

I was more worried about cramming everything in and keep it cool.

It's also occurred to me that in my wall storage I could fit a micro ATX tower.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

Well the cases come with 3 fans and room for 2 more. I think the Micro ATX solution you mentioned would be a much better one though! Will save you the hassle of faffing around in a tight case and like you mention keep things cooler as well

Many thanks,

I know I said up to £1000 so you were just following my request.

But now I know the art of the possible - I was thinking I was going to need really expensive power and cooling arrangements, I will probably downgrade my spec somewhat.

CPU - AMD FX - Quad Core is probably sufficient
GFS - Something around the £125 mark, an R9 280X maybe
8GB RAM
A hybrid disk or maybe increase the size of the SDD


Reckon I could get it down to around £500-£600 and have a better machine than I'm happy with at the moment.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

Out of interest what makes Intel so much better for gaming.

Most of the PCs I have built have been AMD-based. I have never built the latest and greatest high performance machines but at the same time I have never found them lacking for what I want.

Cheers,

Nigel