Mini-ITX Gaming Spec

Nikumba · 30 Jul 2010 at 11:53

Getting ready to build a new gaming machine, looking at the below spec, the only thing I will be keeping from my current machine is my BFG GTX285OC2

Any suggestions or tweaks?

Dell UltraSharp U2711 27" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail
Corsair HX 650W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650HXUK)
Lian Li PC-Q08B USB3.0 Mini-ITX Case - Black
Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Mini-ITX Motherboard
Patriot PS-100 64GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 (1333MHz) Low-Voltage Dual Channel (OCZ3G1333LV4GK)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ)
Samsung SH-S223L/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM

Thanks

Kimbie

HW91 · 30 Jul 2010 at 12:15

I would drop the patriot SSD, to put it lightly, they're rubbish

02goswej · 30 Jul 2010 at 12:21

And drop the OCZ Gold RAM, Everyone said it's been shipping either damaged or poor build quality.

/Johnathan

Nikumba · 30 Jul 2010 at 12:27

So which SSD and RAM to go for then?

HW91 · 30 Jul 2010 at 12:37

crucial C300 or vertex 2E

St0tteh0 · 30 Jul 2010 at 13:09

maybe these for memory -

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-203-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-048-GS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

or this if your still wanting some 1333 stuff -

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-019-PA&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1516