Mini-ITX Gaming Build

[GastricTitan]

Budget is around the £800, including OS. Looking for some advice on the below build please. Just to note, I already have a Thermaltake Core V1 case lined up. Any help is greatly appreciated.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD48GM2400HC16DC0= £29.99
• 1 x MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £289.99
• 1 x Corsair CX-M Series 550W 80 Plus Bronze Semi Modular Power Supply (CP-9020102-UK)= £59.99
• 1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/= £34.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6500 3.20GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £175.99

Total: £802.03
(includes shipping: £11.10)
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[philo-sofa]

A few quick thoughts: as you only have two RAM sockets, would heartily recommend getting a 16GB kit to avoid having to throw out your existing memory after you upgrade. Get a good cheap air cooler like the CM 212 EVO and spend an extra £20 on the i5 6600K to allow overclocking. Finally consider upsizing the SSD if you can and maybe waiting until July for the next gen cards rather than buying a two year old GPU now.

 

[Stealthploit]

yep what he said or at least buy one big module for start then you can add 1 more

 

[lee32uk]

I would swap the psu to the XFX XTR 550W. The new Corsair CM-X is a lot better than the old CX range, but the XFX is worth the extra £5 as you get a fully modular unit, hybrid fan mode and a bit more efficiency (Gold over Bronze).

The MSI 970 might not fit in the Thermaltake V1. The Kitguru review below says that the max length is 255mm. The MSI 970 is listed as 269mm on MSI website.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cases/henry-butt/thermaltake-core-v1-mini-itx-case-review/4/

I would avoid the Kingston V300 SSD. Also a 120GB will fill up very fast. If you can stretch the budget then the Crucial BX200 240GB would be better.

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Don't bother with that Z board if you're not going to pair it with a K part.

 

[lee32uk]

Don't bother with that Z board if you're not going to pair it with a K part.

You only save £40 by going for a cheaper itx board such as the Asus H110I Plus D3. If the op wants the built in wifi and the other extra features that the Z170 chipset has then there isn't really many other options.