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I'm looking to build my little pig (my 6 yo) a decent PC of her own. I got a Gigabyte Brix for her about a year ago to test the waters and she's been obsessed. It'll run Minecraft at minimum settings 1280*1024 and Scribblenauts but that's about it power wise.
I've decided to build her a Bitfenix Prodigy (either the MITX one or the 'M' Micro-ATX version) based PC but never having built an M-ITX/ATX PC I'm not sure what the flavour of the month is parts wise.
I've got a soft budget of £500, could probably stretch it by £50-£100 if it's justifiable. It doesn't need to be a behemoth; just enough to play the likes of the Lego games, Minecraft etc at 1080p with acceptable frame rates. If getting a lower spec GPU helps make the rest of the build more future-proof then that's doable. I'd be up for overclocking the CPU if possible so having that be an option would be nice. I'd prefer an Intel CPU but I'm not precious on the GPU brand.
I don't need peripherals or an optical drive, or Windows. I'll sort those separately. So it's just case & internals. If a partial OCUK build and then having to go 2nd hand hunting for the GPU etc for example makes a massive difference, that's fine. I could just do with knowing what CPU/Board/Mem combinations people suggest more than anything.
Help me OCUK, you're my only hope!
I've decided to build her a Bitfenix Prodigy (either the MITX one or the 'M' Micro-ATX version) based PC but never having built an M-ITX/ATX PC I'm not sure what the flavour of the month is parts wise.
I've got a soft budget of £500, could probably stretch it by £50-£100 if it's justifiable. It doesn't need to be a behemoth; just enough to play the likes of the Lego games, Minecraft etc at 1080p with acceptable frame rates. If getting a lower spec GPU helps make the rest of the build more future-proof then that's doable. I'd be up for overclocking the CPU if possible so having that be an option would be nice. I'd prefer an Intel CPU but I'm not precious on the GPU brand.
I don't need peripherals or an optical drive, or Windows. I'll sort those separately. So it's just case & internals. If a partial OCUK build and then having to go 2nd hand hunting for the GPU etc for example makes a massive difference, that's fine. I could just do with knowing what CPU/Board/Mem combinations people suggest more than anything.
Help me OCUK, you're my only hope!
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