Light gaming machine

Cheetah Designs · 18 Jan 2013 at 20:02

I had wanted a low powered machine but now I want a light gaming machine aswell.

So what I am looking for is a base unit without an os:

- no moving parts so one of those heatsink cases
- because I am using a heatsink case, max 65w tdp CPU and a pico psu
- SSD
- ability to do some light gaming

All that as cheap as it can be done please.

Thanks

Edit: there was a thread on here with a lot of these type of builds but I can't find it

Cheetah Designs · 19 Jan 2013 at 15:49

Oh

No ideas? If I am doing gaming should I be going AMD or intel at least?

Cheetah Designs · 19 Jan 2013 at 16:31

I need a mini ITX board!

Should I definitely be looking at AMD if I am doing gaming?

Addicted said:
Best of luck, it can't be done cheaply.

Expecting to spend around 450 to 500 on this machine.

Cheetah Designs · 19 Jan 2013 at 19:09

Well I want a completely passive pc, no moving parts so there is no noise., this is the most important thing so there is no movement on this.

The reason i stated a maximum of 65W TDP was so that it would I would be able to use a passive case.

Don't want a mechanical hard drive in there.

Cheetah Designs · 19 Jan 2013 at 20:27

I don't have the case, and I need a mini ITX board, you keep spec'ing a micro tax board!

Cheetah Designs · 19 Jan 2013 at 20:57

Nope, not with the case! The case is the heatsink....that's the point

Cheetah Designs · 19 Jan 2013 at 21:41

The heatsink is provided with the case! Pretty sure of that!

Cheetah Designs · 20 Jan 2013 at 09:04

snips86x said:
I see what you mean now:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x AMD A10-5700 3.40GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD5700OKHJBOX) £91.99
1 x Streacom Nano 150w HTPC Power Supply/Adapter £77.99
1 x ASRock FM2A75M-ITX AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £73.99
1 x Streacom ST-F7CB HTPC Aluminium Case - Black £64.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £39.95
Total : £460.26 (includes shipping : £9.50).

Think that looks like it, but that case isn't one of the passive ones...I have to get someone like the fc8

Cheetah Designs · 20 Jan 2013 at 09:43

Marine-RX179 said:
Have you looked at the one Mr. May suggested on post 18?

Costs close to £200 with all the required bits

Cheetah Designs · 20 Jan 2013 at 10:14

Idleman said:
Where is the cooler?

The case is the cooler but you also need to buy the heatppipe kit as I've said before! Especially with the impactics case