Kinda budget HTPC build?

giotariz

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Hello forums,

After building my main rig, I've been thinking of making a small HTPC with an ITX case for some light gaming (up to CS:GO, Heroes of the Storm, maybe Elite:Dangerous) to put under the TV. For specs, I've been thinking about the Pentium g3258 from Intel, however motherboards in ITX size that support cpu overclocking pass the 150$ mark (at least here in Italy...), so I've been thinking about AMD APUs. How are they, and could they work for the system I'm looking for?

For RAM, i've got a stick of 8gb ddr3 1600 somewhere from my old system, so I might recycle that. For a budget GPU I was considering an ASUS Radeon r7 360, what are your thoughts on it? I've never built an AMD based pc so I don't really know the components.

Also, what cases would you guys suggest? Could a Thermaltake Core v1 work?

Thanks in advance for the help.