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October 10, 2014 3:33:39 PM

Hi guys,

I'm looking at building a Mini-ITX rig soon and I was wondering if you could suggest some builds for me from case to OS?

I'll be using it mainly for gaming and I want it to be able to play next-gen games (FIFA 15, Witcher 3, NBA 2K15) on high/ultra settings at 1080p with good FPS. Also I really like the Cooler Master Elite 110 and 130 cases so if you could suggest them in those cases first I'd appreciate it, but any case with good cooling below 240mm in height is ok. My budget is around £500.

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October 10, 2014 3:54:00 PM

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor (£58.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI A88XI AC Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard (£64.66 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£56.83 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£44.98 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.50 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 760 2GB DirectCU II Video Card (£149.71 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Tower Case (£35.58 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Fractal Design Integra R2 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£37.80 @ Scan.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£69.29 @ Aria PC)
Total: £555.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-10


This will do ultra at 1080p on 60fps+ at all times. This is slightly over budget but thats due to the OS. If you shop around, you can find Windows 8.1 (legit) for cheaper. Also, if you want to reduce cost to this, remove the SSD or only get 4 GB ram and upgrade later. I assume you aren't overclocking, hence stock cooler is fine.
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October 10, 2014 4:02:28 PM

tambeshakunt said:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor (£58.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI A88XI AC Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard (£64.66 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£56.83 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£44.98 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.50 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 760 2GB DirectCU II Video Card (£149.71 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Tower Case (£35.58 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Fractal Design Integra R2 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£37.80 @ Scan.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£69.29 @ Aria PC)
Total: £555.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-10


This will do ultra at 1080p on 60fps+ at all times. This is slightly over budget but thats due to the OS. If you shop around, you can find Windows 8.1 (legit) for cheaper. Also, if you want to reduce cost to this, remove the SSD or only get 4 GB ram and upgrade later. I assume you aren't overclocking, hence stock cooler is fine.


Okay thanks a lot mate and no I won't be doing any overclocking.

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October 11, 2014 3:14:57 AM

Well then this is probably the best you will get for your money as a good, balanced and high performance build.
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