Mini-ITX box on a budget

[Roalith]

Looking to build a video encoding/general browsing box for a work colleague... won't be large volumes of video, but they're after a new machine and an SSD would go down well. Suggestions welcome:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3330 3.00GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £143.99
1 x OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G) £79.99
1 x MSI H61I-E35 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 ITX Motherboard £49.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced Mini-ITX Case - Black £39.98
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1333C9DC) £29.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £29.99
Total : £385.93 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 

[honosuseri]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77N-WIFI Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £98.99
1 x Intel 330 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £79.99
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced Mini-ITX Case - Black £39.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £23.99
Total : £498.92 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Better mobo to allow overclocking of the i5K and includes wi-fi and sata III, special price on preorder. The H61 mobo you are using isn't sata III capable so the true speed of sataIII SSDs is wasted.

The K series also has a better IGP than the non K editions. The IGP is also used by Quicksync which speeds up video encoding with supported software. RAM is better a great value on that offer.

PSU is modular. As it's a mini itx build having modular cables will be a massive help as space is limited. There aren't many decent budget PSUs in stock currently but you could save a few quid I suppose. The PSU you spec'd isn't great to be honest, going modular makes a lot of sense in my eyes. SSD is good and on offer, the samsung SSD which is £10 more would be preferable over the Intel.

Hope this helps

 

[Doomedspeed]

If you don't want to game i guess this is good.

The motherboard doesn't have a pci-e slot, as im sure you know. It may require a BIOS update (unless it's already been done [pre-sale]) to support Ivy CPU's.

As the PSU isn't modular i can see it being tricky to put together.

Looks okay though.