Small Systems

Cashman · 11 Aug 2016 at 15:42

I have been looking at getting a small gaming system to play games at 1680x1050 or HD res and certainly not any higher than that.

I'm not really after a large or expensive system and wondered about the following two systems?

1) OcUK Kinetic H2 - Intel H110 Configurable Skylake Micro ATX DDR3 Gaming Cube

2) "ForceBox Gamer" Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 Nvidia GTX LAN Gaming PC

Probably looking to add in a GTX750 ti and an i3. Would these make good setups for gaming at that sort of res? Any better component choices I really should go for. e.g. i5 over i3 or better bang for buck gfx, 16gb vs 8gb etc.

StarShock · 11 Aug 2016 at 16:02

The new amd RX460 would be a better option, it out performs the 750ti for about the same money, don't know if they've been put into the configure thing yet.

An i3 is fine for gaming, an i5 will perform better, but if you're on a tight budget, the i3 will do everything you need it to.

8gb is also fine if you're just gaming.

Cashman · 11 Aug 2016 at 18:21

Thanks that's great.

I would guess my budget is about £500 but at least, I'd have the option to upgrade to 16gb and i5 later right?

Would the PSU's be decent enough for a much better gfx card now or in the future? Is there a much better bang-for-buck gfx card out right now?

mistersprinkles · 12 Aug 2016 at 09:43

RX460 is about as good bang for the buck as "entry level decent" cards get these days. It is a modern card and performs admirably for the money.

Basically, just get a power supply that has at least 500W (a good one) of output so you can be able to run any single GPU and CPU combination in the future. Get at least an 80+ bronze unit. However, gold rated units are getting cheap these days. EVGA's G2 and Seasonic's SSR-G are good, as are the Superflower gold rated units.

The rating (bronze, silver, gold, platinum, titanium) is a measure of the unit's efficiency (amount of power it delivers to components vs power wasted) at X load.

Borealis · 12 Aug 2016 at 10:06

I would probably chuck in an RX 460 as well, but make sure it's a 4GB model. The 750Ti is getting a little out of date now and only has 2GB VRAM. Something new, based on the current tech is going to last longer.

I agree you want to try and get as decent a PSU as you can afford because that'll let you upgrade the GPU in the future.