- Mar 25, 2013
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Hi guys and gals,
Let me preface by saying that I haven't built a PC in over five years; so I am a little out of date with what tech is good and what components play well with each other. With that said, I am looking to build a mini-ITX (small form factor, in general, I guess) PC. I tried doing a search and reading some other posts, but I couldn't find specifics I was looking for, and to be quite honest, a lot of it reads like gibberish, as I haven't kept up with a lot of the new tech terminology.
I will try to be as specific as possible in what I am looking for (I for some reason can't find the sticky that lays out the format when asking for this)...so here we go:
Build: Mini-ITX PC
Budget: Would like to be at $800 or under, but I am flexible
Purpose of build: Everyday computer use (e.g. surfing the web, editing office documents, e-mail, etc). However, I do a lot of music recording and editing, and I would like to have a PC that is more than capable of handling that task. Also, I do occasional gaming (such as starcraft 2, CS, l4d, etc.)...nothing crazy like Crysis, but I would like to have decent GPU, discrete or not, and the ability to run at least two monitors for music editing purposes.
Case: As of now, the smaller the better. Is something along these lines good?
IN WIN BP655.300TB3L Black Steel / Plastic Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case
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Ram: I would like at minimum 8gb, but 16 would not be bad to have.
As far as the other components...I have no clue. Will an i5 or i7 be good enough? I definitely need to run a 64bit system, and I most likely will be using Windows 7, not 8 (I just don't want to have to deal with potential compatibility issues). USB 3.0 would be a plus, and a potential slot for a firewire or soundcard would be nice.
I hope that is specific enough, but let me know if you guys need more info. Thanks in advance for any help, and sorry for any "newbie" questions or info I gave.
Let me preface by saying that I haven't built a PC in over five years; so I am a little out of date with what tech is good and what components play well with each other. With that said, I am looking to build a mini-ITX (small form factor, in general, I guess) PC. I tried doing a search and reading some other posts, but I couldn't find specifics I was looking for, and to be quite honest, a lot of it reads like gibberish, as I haven't kept up with a lot of the new tech terminology.
I will try to be as specific as possible in what I am looking for (I for some reason can't find the sticky that lays out the format when asking for this)...so here we go:
Build: Mini-ITX PC
Budget: Would like to be at $800 or under, but I am flexible
Purpose of build: Everyday computer use (e.g. surfing the web, editing office documents, e-mail, etc). However, I do a lot of music recording and editing, and I would like to have a PC that is more than capable of handling that task. Also, I do occasional gaming (such as starcraft 2, CS, l4d, etc.)...nothing crazy like Crysis, but I would like to have decent GPU, discrete or not, and the ability to run at least two monitors for music editing purposes.
Case: As of now, the smaller the better. Is something along these lines good?
IN WIN BP655.300TB3L Black Steel / Plastic Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case
http://
Ram: I would like at minimum 8gb, but 16 would not be bad to have.
As far as the other components...I have no clue. Will an i5 or i7 be good enough? I definitely need to run a 64bit system, and I most likely will be using Windows 7, not 8 (I just don't want to have to deal with potential compatibility issues). USB 3.0 would be a plus, and a potential slot for a firewire or soundcard would be nice.
I hope that is specific enough, but let me know if you guys need more info. Thanks in advance for any help, and sorry for any "newbie" questions or info I gave.
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