Looking at a small, powerful PC

historyofnepal · 11 Jun 2015 at 16:22

I'm putting together the first PC I've had in years and want something small and reasonably quiet. It's going to be for games so I want something that can comfortably handle recent stuff, especially Dark Souls / Dark Souls II, Kerbal Space Program and Witcher 3. I also want something that's going to do a decent job over the next few years.

I've been looking at the Micro ATX machines and put this together:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/syscon_int.php?prodid=FS-044-OG&recordid=26131168

My budget is ~£1000. Does this look like a reasonable machine?

historyofnepal · 12 Jun 2015 at 10:57

Thanks for the advice, that's really useful! I've upped the motherboard and dropped the RAM down to 8GB as that will be easy to upgrade in the future. Also got a 500GB SSD in there.

With the 980 is it not worth the extra money? In the past I've felt it's been a good idea to pay extra for the graphics card as it's the thing that changes fastest. Is the 970 going to be good enough for the next couple of years?

historyofnepal · 12 Jun 2015 at 12:18

Interesting. The reviews for the MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition look pretty good so I'm considering going with that.

I'm not sure on the monitor yet, what kind of thing would you recommend? I'm not going to get anything massive so probably the 970 is going to be good enough for what I need?

Thanks for the heads up on the Themis Evo, I swapped it out for another fan but I'm guessing they're all much of a muchness anyway.

historyofnepal · 12 Jun 2015 at 14:34

That's cheaper than some of the other ones I was looking at. Awesome, I'll have a read about the difference between the two. Thanks for the advice.