Real small SFF needed

bertles86 · 21 May 2011 at 16:06

Hi folks,

I'm building an uber small SFF from scratch, with primary uses of:

Surfing
Outlook
Several Excel spreadsheets at one time

Please critique it! Will all the parts (a) fit and (b) match?

X-Case S002 SFF Case with 450W PSU
MB-411-AS Asus P7H55-M Intel H55 microATX Mobo
CP-367-IN Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) CPU
BU-006-CS Corsair Value 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz
HD-364-WD Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB
KB-015-BZ Blaze BL-6400 2.4GHz Wireless Desktop keyboard/mouse
HS-027-SY Scythe Shuriken Quiet Low Profile CPU Cooler
MO-059-IY IIyama Prolite E2271HDS 22" Widescreen LED Monitor
CB-007-OP OcUK Professional 2 Meter HDMI Cable
Samsung Blu-ray Optical Drive [Current]

Cheers!

Edit: Bottom line is about £465 inc. VAT, good hey?

bertles86 · 21 May 2011 at 17:31

The other possible case would be the Silverstone ML01, but at under 100mm thick, would everything fit? Is the Scythe Shuriken small enough?

bertles86 · 22 May 2011 at 09:20

Brilliant thanks Legion.

Do you know much about either of those cases? I've always used Lian-Li in the past, but they don't really go in for SFF...the Scythe heatsink should be fine even in those tight cases yeh?

bertles86 · 22 May 2011 at 09:34

Also the HD2000 integrated gfx on that CPU should be plenty good enough to run W7 Pro?

bertles86 · 22 May 2011 at 09:41

Ah I was thinking in a case 95-120mm deep the stock heatsink would be too high? Hence the Scythe...but if I'm wrong then that just makes it cheaper!

Edit: I'm doubting the stock PSU in the X-Case would be great, i.e. noisy...but can't find mATX PSU's anywhere...do they exist? Should only need 350W odd to run that rig?

bertles86 · 22 May 2011 at 10:48

Ah ha superb, I'll use the Silverstone case then as it's smaller.

Silverstone ML01
MSI H67MA-E35 Intel H67 DDR3 Micro-ATX Mobo
Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) CPU
Corsair Value 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB
Samsung Blu-ray Optical Drive [Store]
Blaze BL-6400 2.4GHz Wireless Desktop keyboard/mouse
IIyama Prolite E2271HDS 22" Widescreen LED Monitor
OcUK Professional 2 Meter HDMI Cable

Look good? £400 ex. VAT all in!