Small Form Factor Gaming/HTPC Spec

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Hi,

Can anyone help me spec a SFF mainly Gaming PC which will also be used for HTPC duties?

Require a reasonably compact case (preferably less than 40cm deep) and be fairly quiet although it will be inside a cupboard so absolute silence is not essential. I was thinking i5 along with 660 or 7950 although I am worried about fitting this into a compact case? SSD is required, I would have thought 128gb would be sufficient - prob about 1Tb of internal storage will be fine as mainly be using external hard drives for my media. Need a Blu Ray drive, preferably quiet although wont be used so much for playback, more for copying media to hard drive.

Budget up to £700 although could increase this if a little bit more would lead to significant improvements. Probably wont be getting involved in any overclocking if that makes a difference...

Thanks for any help!!!
 
Ok, have come up with this but have gone quite a bit over budget - any comments/improvements welcome!! (sorry, cant work out how to copy and paste properly...)

Thanks


Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail
£167.99

MSI HD 7850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards
£131.99

Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW)
£89.99

Gigabyte Z77N-WIFI Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard
£87.98

Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD
£69.98

Corsair 2013 Edition Gamer Series GS 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020063-UK)
£64.99

BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Arctic White
£64.99

Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K)
£49.99

Antec Kúhler H2O 620 Series 4 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+)
£47.99

Shipping :
£11.75

Total :

£790.00
 
What display are you planing to use? And at what resolution?

If your not planing to overclock you don't need the k series CPU. So that will save you a few quid. Also do you need a quad core?

My old htpc used an i3 and was more than capable of doing all my media stuff and playing games.
 
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