New gaming build comments please

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Quango-uk

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sold my gaming pc a while ago and really miss it

so decided to build a new Quiet small form factor one

Is this a good build?

Not sure what power supply to get maybe the Silverstone PSU Strider ST75F-P 750W?
cooler for the cpu a silverstone NT06?

Palit GeForce GTX 460 Sonic 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156)
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive
Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Mini-ITX Motherboard
Silverstone Sugo SG01B-F Evolution Aluminium Micro-ATX Case - Black
G.Skill RipJaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black

Any suggestions on using better or different components as I'm new to the SFF scene

I don't really want to go too mad on cost as well, want to keep it under 1k :-)
 
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Thats some nice gear, I've got that case and I love it. At current its serving my father as a Tv/dl boxything. However I am so tempted to purchase another and whack my current build into it. You may find that having fans run at full pelt be quite loud, get some decent fans + fan controller and some rubber grommets and all you will hear is the sound of air and hard disk chunterring away once so often.

As for powersupply try get a nice quiet one with moduler cables as it gets very very cramped other wise.

Nt06 is a good choice especially if you can fit a fan under it just to help, failing this there is a thermal take out there (can't remember name) which does a fantastic job and fits snugly under.
 
i'd go with a scythe big shuriken instead of a silverstone nt06 myself, probably would be best to turn the fan over also so it pulls air up through the heatsink and then the psu fan exhuasts the air out or it will be fighting the psu fan for air.

with the sugo sg01 if you mount the optical drive in the bottom bay you can hide any excess cables in the upper bay so although handy a modular psu is not a necessity like in some other small cases.

i have an alpenfohn panorama cooler in mine but i doubt it would cope with an i5 to be honest.

the palit is one of the shortest gtx 460's so you shouldn't have problems with it fouling the hard drive caddy like some longer cards do.

the silverstone case fans are ok (not really that noisy) but i switched to sharkoon silent eagle 1000's.
 
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Thanks Chipps

Are you saying attach a 120mm silent eagle fan to the big scythe cooler?

Any recommendations on a really quiet psu?

And would I be able to use these parts in a SG05 with uprated psu
 
All that will go in an SGO5 no bother.
I'd suggest you buy something other than the Ripjaws,it is tall ram compared to Corsair XMS3 etc and will foul on most replacement hsf's for M-itx use.

As for a better hsf I'd reccomend the Prolimatech Samuel 17 with a nice slow 120mm fan for use in the SGO5.
 
If it went with this revised spec what would be the best graphics bang for buck to go in this system ?

Can someone recommend me a 750watt quiet modular psu as I'm not sure if the BeQuiet I have in my spec is a good choice.

Silverstone Sugo SG01B-F Evolution Aluminium Micro-ATX Case
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P8 750W Modular Power Supply
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156)
Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Mini-ITX Motherboard
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel
Scythe Shuriken BIG Quiet Low Profile CPU Cooler
Sharkoon Silent Eagle 1000 120mm Fan
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache
BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black

This is coming in at £833 without graphics card :(

Any ideas where I can save some money without compromising quality and performance too much

I want a gaming SFF what will be good for a year or so.
 
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Hanns.G HH251DPB 25" Widescreen LCD Monitor - £118 today only
*** PROMO *** OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply - £58 - which is £70 cheaper than the be quiet one.
 
Ended up ordering this instead

hoping it all fits together ok :)

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
OCZ Platinum 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Silverstone SG07 Mini-ITX Gaming Case - Black/Silver (With 600W PSU)
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156)
Zotac H55ITX-A-E (Socket 1156) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)
Scythe Shuriken BIG Quiet Low Profile CPU Cooler (Scoket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366)
Akasa TIM Kit Thermal Compound + Cleaner & Spreader
 
Meh missed the Saturday delivery time slot.

Cancelled the order to take advantage of the free delivery option.
Then went to re-order and some bits are now out of stock.

Back to the drawing board lol
 
The probelm is building a gaming rig out of one!

The power circuitry on these boards really isnt up to much.
i5 760,8gb of ram,a high powered gfx card and heavy gaming is going to push this board to the limits.
If you were building an htpc with an i3 I wouldn't bat an eyelid,but this is not the case.
Zotac are also infamous for their horrible rma procedure should anything go wrong.

The gigabyte is proven time and again to handle this kind of torture.
It overclocks very well,something the Zotac doesn't.
It's also backed up with decent bios updates,support and a very good rma service.
 
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