Tiny computer upto £800 for 1080p/Ultra

bemaniac

bemaniac

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Hi guys I'm really excited to be able to finally persuade my wife to spend some money she recently came into on her pc. I'm proposing a totally new system for gaming but do not need monitor, mouse, keyboard, headset, speakers. Only the tower minus SSD and windows and as small and powerful as possible.

No SSD needed as I gave her one of mine for installing her already owned windows 7 x64 on so no windows needed either.

She will be playing modern games like battlefield 4 and mmos like wildstar at top settings or as close as possible so grunt is required! Preferably overclockable so I can tinker for her too. Budget is slightly flexible.

So excited as I know any graphics card can fit into these upcoming and recently released micro pcs!
 
I blew the budget slightly... but I would say it's a pretty solid build...

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £69.95
1 x BitFenix Phenom Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black £69.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £54.98
Total : £854.93 (includes shipping : £11.75).



if you wanted to spend another £30... I would get

YOUR BASKET
1 x Avexir Blitz Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz Dual Channel Kit (AVD3U20000904G-2GW) £79.99
Total : £88.69 (includes shipping : £7.25).



Otherwise... thats what I would get :)
 
mATX:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Asus Z87 GRYPHON Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £107.99
1 x Aero Cool Dead Silence Gaming White/Black Mini Tower Windowed £72.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £43.99
Total : £815.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).



ITX:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 1220 Series 4 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £81.60
1 x Corsair Obsidian Series 250D Mini ITX Compact Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011047-WW) £71.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £43.99
Total : £853.13 (includes shipping : £8.00).



The mATX one would get my vote. Love those Dead Silence cases.
 
Fulax said:
mATX:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Asus Z87 GRYPHON Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £107.99
1 x Aero Cool Dead Silence Gaming White/Black Mini Tower Windowed £72.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £43.99
Total : £815.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).

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Personally i'd suggest this,

These mATX cases aren't much bigger than the current stream of ITX cases around.

This allows more money to spend on a better board and means you don't have to use an AIO, which aren't great value..

Personally i'd save even more on the board and grab a gigabyte Z87M-D3H.

The K2 is a great cooler for the money (it used to be £60, and still a bargain at that).
 
The Only Beardy said:
I blew the budget slightly... but I would say it's a pretty solid build...

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £69.95
1 x BitFenix Phenom Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black £69.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £54.98
Total : £854.93 (includes shipping : £11.75).



if you wanted to spend another £30... I would get

YOUR BASKET
1 x Avexir Blitz Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz Dual Channel Kit (AVD3U20000904G-2GW) £79.99
Total : £88.69 (includes shipping : £7.25).



Otherwise... thats what I would get :)
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Needs a hard disk, the op says he has a ssd but will need a hard disk to store data and programs on(the ssd depending on the capacity will only have enough space for the os plus a handful of programs).
 
fowler002 said:
Needs a hard disk, the op says he has a ssd but will need a hard disk to store data and programs on(the ssd depending on the capacity will only have enough space for the os plus a handful of programs).
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I sure do need a regular HDD the old ones in the old system are ancient.
 
Doomedspeed said:
Personally i'd suggest this,

These mATX cases aren't much bigger than the current stream of ITX cases around.

This allows more money to spend on a better board and means you don't have to use an AIO, which aren't great value..

Personally i'd save even more on the board and grab a gigabyte Z87M-D3H.

The K2 is a great cooler for the money (it used to be £60, and still a bargain at that).
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Would a 770 run cooler by the way? Are 280x cards 7970s cos those were cool enough when I had them? ps all good ideas but if someone can think of something that aesthetically beats either of the above let me know as those are both very likely close to final build.
 
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bemaniac said:
Would a 770 run cooler by the way? Are 280x cards 7970s? ps all good ideas but if someone can think of something that aesthetically beats either of the above let me know as those are both very likely close to final build.
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The 770 will run cooler the the 280X is the faster/better card.

I think the 280X is well worth it.
 
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