Hi guys,
I recently dusted off my old gaming rig after retiring it for a few years whilst I was busy with other things and after picking up a Silverstone RVZ01 for a paltry £30 the other day I'm looking at building a basic mini rig.
I previously had an old Q6600 rig with a HD6870 as I pretty much only ever played CS:GO. After installing Fallout 4 and realising my old Win7 was only 32bit for some reason I thought I might as well try and build a cheap mini rig able to run F4 and CSGO as well or better than my current clunky one (its housed in a Coolermaster ATCS-201!).
Had a quick browse and this was the spec I came up with but I'm pretty behind on the latest tech or even if an AMD or older build would still be more than up to what I need?
Intel Core i3 4130, LGA 1150, Haswell
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Pro Series Red, PC3-19200 (low profile)
MSI Z97I AC, Intel Z97, S 1150
250GB Samsung 850 EVO
I'll re-use an older sata drive for a while for main storage, my HD6870 and my PSU which was upgraded a few years ago seems to keep up with what I'd need.
What do you think?
Edit: just realised my PSU probably won't fit into the case as its an older standard size, any mini atx psu's you'd recommend? Silverstone sx-500 lg?
I recently dusted off my old gaming rig after retiring it for a few years whilst I was busy with other things and after picking up a Silverstone RVZ01 for a paltry £30 the other day I'm looking at building a basic mini rig.
I previously had an old Q6600 rig with a HD6870 as I pretty much only ever played CS:GO. After installing Fallout 4 and realising my old Win7 was only 32bit for some reason I thought I might as well try and build a cheap mini rig able to run F4 and CSGO as well or better than my current clunky one (its housed in a Coolermaster ATCS-201!).
Had a quick browse and this was the spec I came up with but I'm pretty behind on the latest tech or even if an AMD or older build would still be more than up to what I need?
Intel Core i3 4130, LGA 1150, Haswell
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Pro Series Red, PC3-19200 (low profile)
MSI Z97I AC, Intel Z97, S 1150
250GB Samsung 850 EVO
I'll re-use an older sata drive for a while for main storage, my HD6870 and my PSU which was upgraded a few years ago seems to keep up with what I'd need.
What do you think?
Edit: just realised my PSU probably won't fit into the case as its an older standard size, any mini atx psu's you'd recommend? Silverstone sx-500 lg?
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