What Parts Do I Need to Cut to Bring price Down to About $700

RydellGreen · Aug 8, 2013

After many months of meditation, to replace my ageing (five year) laptop i have decided to go with intel over amd in a mini-itx motherboard. I'm a junior in college and will probable use it 90-95 percent of the time for browsing and writing papers, but I do enjoy the media side of things like photo and video editing and transcoding. I used handbrake to encode a two an half hour movie to h.264 using my laptop and it took a whopping 31 hours first pass, and 35 hours second pass. My first build cost about 1200, then i knocked it down about 950, then taking the best prices from three dealers, it dropped down to about 850. I feel more comfortable at the 700 dollar range. Is there anything more i can cut to bring the price down even more? I made i spreadsheet with all my parts and prices and dealers, but since this is lucky post number one, dont' know how to add it.

Outlander_04 · Aug 8, 2013

Links to the parts you are looking at , and the name of them too

RydellGreen · Aug 8, 2013

Burner LG Blue Ray (59.60) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136250
Cableing Kables HDMI(4.99) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136250
Case BitFenix Prodigy(59.99) http://www.microcenter.com/product/393941/Prodigy_Mini-ITX_Computer_Case_-_Black
Cpu Cooler Evo 212+(27.81) http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Hyper-212-RR-212E-20PK-R2/dp/B005O65JXI
HDD WD 1TB Blue (62.99) http://www.amazon.com/WD-Blue-Desktop-Hard-Drive/dp/B0088PUEPK/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1376014230&sr=1-1&keywords=wd+blue+1tb
CPU i5 3570K (189.99) http://www.microcenter.com/product/388577/Core_i5_3570K_34GHz_Socket_LGA_1155_Boxed_Processor
Keyboard logitech (39.99) http://goo.gl/K75Rde
RAM crucial balistic (57.99) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148540
Mother Board Gigabyte (94.99) http://www.microcenter.com/product/392369/GA-H61N-USB3_LGA_1155_H61_Mini_ITX_Intel_Motherboard
PSU corsair (66.24) http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Builder-Watt-EPS%C2%A0-CX600/dp/B0092ML0OC/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1376014854&sr=1-1&keywords=cx600
GPU msi gtx 660 (194.99) http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GeForce-Graphics-N660-TF/dp/B0094CX8QI/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1376014938&sr=1-4&keywords=gtx+660

MadRetch · Aug 8, 2013

well that motherboard i think it doesnt allow for overclocking so instead of the 3570k get the 3570 that should bring the price down a little bit

RydellGreen · Aug 8, 2013

Since I've been running Linux for three years now and don't really do any gaming other than on a console, I wonder, since the gigabyte board doesn't not over OC, what if i upgrade to a z77 m-itx to overclock with the 3570K and drop the video card? The integrated graphics are fine for office applications, but will I still be able to do video and photo editing without waiting an eternity?

smeezekitty · Aug 8, 2013

If you don't do gaming, then cutting down your GPU to something like a GTX650 would be enough.

MadRetch · Aug 9, 2013

yeh if not for gaming go for as he said gtx650 or amd hd7770 cheap and effective as for what you wanna do

Outlander_04 · Aug 13, 2013

If you are not gaming then drop the graphics card entirely , use the onboard graphics and buy an 3770 or 3770k

The prodigy is a great case but I suggest you buy something larger with better cooling if you want to overclock a lot

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