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skylineboy

skylineboy

skylineboy

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Hi guys,

I need a small footprint gaming beast. :)

This will be a short term build for summer LAN

I will need to fit a long GPU

I also have an i7 2600k

basically I need: cooler, case and motherboard

I would like it to be as light and small as possible, if it can be red and black even better.

cheaper the better
 
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For the case the most popular choice on these forums is the Bitfenix Prodigy at £70 - lots of airflow and has space for a large HSF or watercooling too I believe. Though not the smallest mini-itx case there is you can fit a lot into it and has good airflow. The Phenom is similar but a bit smaller.

At the other end of the scale the Coolermaster Elite 120 (£40) which I went for supports high end gfx cards, has a 120mm intake fan however the coolers are limited to 65mm "top down" coolers like the Noctua NH-L9i, Xigmatek Praeton etc. I'll be honest, it gets toasty in there with my CPU which is 100w tdp.
For £5 more the CM Elite 130 accommodates watercooling.

Another case I would have chosen if I wasn't on such a tight budget at the time is the Antec ISK 600 - 120mm quiet fan included and accommodates a larger HSF, on par size wise with the coolermaster 120.

All of these cases come in black.
 
The CM Elite 130 is probably a good shout for the case. Will you be overclocking this?
 
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