New Mini ITX style build - please spec!

moores28

moores28

moores28

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Hi guys,

Can you help me? I'm looking to build a new SFF type cube or something small enough to be light and quite portable.

Ideally it needs to:

- Ideally hold 2x 2TB hard drives and maybe also a SSD for gaming. Not bothered about a DVD drive - thinking of getting an external Bluray drive
- Have a decent level of performance - support for an i3, i5, i7 or an equivalent AMD core.
- Hold preferably 4GB of RAM or more
- Be able to run RAID for backup purposes, to support backups from 2 MBP laptops on a daily basis
- Support gaming to a good level - therefore needs to house a PCI-E slot with clearance for a reasonable graphics card
- To support a decent sound card / good on-board sound
- To be fairly silent / support a large quiet fan like a 140mm.


Budget - around £600 - £800. I already bought a Samsung Spinpoint 2TB drive and thinking of getting another.

I was looking at the Lian Li PC-Q08R, with a mini ITX board (no idea which!) but don't know whether this would be the best solution. I'm also not sure what kit to buy - which board, graphics card or anything else.

Can anyone advise me please?

Many thanks,

Moores28
 
the h55 boards dont do raid so try and get a hold of a zotac Geforce 9300 cost about £100 and mabey a decent q2d or c2d so without the mobo

XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £135.11
(£114.99) £135.11
(£114.99)
Lian Li PC-Q08R USB3.0 Mini-ITX Case - Red £119.99
(£102.12) £119.99
(£102.12)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.5GHz 4MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail £115.14
(£97.99) £115.14
(£97.99)
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EARS) £91.64
(£77.99) £183.28
(£155.98)
Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 6400C5 TwinX Dual Channel (TWIN2X4096-6400C5C) £76.36
(£64.99) £76.36
(£64.99)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 500w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply
 
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you already have the 2tb drive, ssd for os and some games, i would get the sg07, its bigger and has a 600w psu, ocuk dont stock them though. went for the 5770, can go bigger if you get the sg07 it supports a 5970! its all within the price range too.

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