Spec me a good Mini-ITX backup PC?

[Tephnos]

Hey guys,

Had an outage of the main rig a couple of months ago and it got me into the idea of having a small Mini-ITX that would work as backup in the event my main rig ever dies again.

Since it's backup, I'd like it to stay small, hence Mini-ITX. I don't need it to be too powerful, if it can run Diablo 3 or something like that just fine then I'm good.

Never built M-ITX before so don't know really where to start - I'll probably also scour for used pieces of the recommended parts.

 

[OracIe]

How about a NUC/Brix?

Budget?

 

[Tephnos]

How about a NUC/Brix?

Budget?

Don't know if the NUC would be powerful enough to run a game like Diablo that well, so seems a bit expensive for what it is.

Budget will be skewed as I'm gonna try and get most of the components used if possible.