Something Small for my new office

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Morning people. On May 1st we are moving out of my back bedroom where we have been operating for the last year or so into a new office in Nottingham. I have been using my usual day to day PC and monitors for work but thats not going to be the case when we move.

I really dont want a laptop, I just dont get on with them that well but I do want something that I can fling in my bag is possible or throw in the safe at the office. Ideally I would like to base it around the Silverstone Sugo SG05 HTPC Case as that would fit in my ruck sack for the motorbike ride home.

It will be used for Autocad LT / Sketchup and the usual office apps and maybe a bit of trackmania 2 when I'm bored. I have a spare AMD 5870 which I would like to use if I can but not sure if will fit the case. I need a decent CPU as well as for rendering the more threads the better although I can offload some to the server via vray's distributed rendering system but if I7 is possible then it would be nice. I also need an OS which would ideally be Win7 Professional. Need a mouse and keyboard, no need to spec a screen.

So starting with the Silverstone Sugo SG05 HTPC Case can you spec me some goodies. Budget is around £600 if possible but if slightly over then no drama.

 

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Yeah I looked at them, there's an I5 version out in April which would be much better suited but its the graphics capabilities that worries me.

 

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Thanks chaps, food for thought. Since starting the thread once of the guys in the office has reminded me we have a spare Win8 Pro lic that we bought and wasnt used and unbelievably a friend has a spare Crucial M225 (128gig) SSD and Dell 2407 that he is dropping off on Friday for the princely sum of a beer :O.

So looking at the following;

Silverstone Sugo SG05 HTPC Case with 450W Power Supply - 114.95
Gigabyte Z77N-WIFI Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard - 98.99
Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 - 226.99
Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz - 99.95
Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler - 59.99

Total 600.87

Decided on the I7 Sandy as I think its worth the extra threads for rendering over the I5 Ivy but didn't want to stretch to the I7 Ivy for what seems like not much gain (if any) over the sandy + I have an I7 Sandy atm so I know it runs everything well.


LePhuronn, any chance of a photo of your case to give some indication as to how much messing about there will be to get the Hydro in. Also can anyone confirm that the ATI5870 (gigabyte) will actually fit this case ?.