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loooking for a mini itx silent pc to play WoW and Gta 5 no HDD or Os needed

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loooking for a mini itx silent pc to play WoW and Gta 5 no HDD or Os needed

 

 

Location? 
Case preferences?

Peripherals?

Remember to be a good citizen and choose a 'best answer' when your problem has been resolved!

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Need more specs. 500 is a skimpy build.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/H4KdJx

If he's not willing to overclock, I'd set him up with an Athlon X4 860k. Not to mention when GTA V launches, I have a feeling it's going to want more threads.

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My Setup:

 

Desktop

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CPU: Ryzen 9 3900X  CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15  Motherboard: Asus Prime X370-PRO  RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 @3200MHz  GPU: EVGA RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA (+50 core +400 memory)  Storage: 1050GB Crucial MX300, 1TB Crucial MX500  PSU: EVGA Supernova 750 P2  Chassis: NZXT Noctis 450 White/Blue OS: Windows 10 Professional  Displays: Asus MG279Q FreeSync OC, LG 27GL850-B

 

Main Laptop:

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Laptop: Sager NP 8678-S  CPU: Intel Core i7 6820HK @ 2.7GHz  RAM: 32GB DDR4 @ 2133MHz  GPU: GTX 980m 8GB  Storage: 250GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 + 1TB Samsung 850 Pro + 1TB 7200RPM HGST HDD  OS: Windows 10 Pro  Chassis: Clevo P670RG  Audio: HyperX Cloud II Gunmetal, Audio Technica ATH-M50s, JBL Creature II

 

Thinkpad T420:

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CPU: i5 2520M  RAM: 8GB DDR3  Storage: 275GB Crucial MX30

 

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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2dCQLk

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2dCQLk/by_merchant/

 

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($77.99 @ Newegg) 

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9a 57.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($39.99 @ Amazon) 

Motherboard: ASRock FM2A78M-ITX+ Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard  ($75.38 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Team Zeus Red 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($68.99 @ Newegg) 

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 270 2GB TurboDuo Video Card  ($141.98 @ Newegg) 

Case: Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case  ($39.99 @ Mwave) 

Power Supply: Rosewill 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($24.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $469.31

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-21 23:36 EDT-0400


 

The Athlon X4 860K is a great gaming CPU - not as good as the G3258 right now, but AMD allows for overclocking on all of its boards and it has 4 cores, which will help in the future when multithreading becomes more popular in games (I hope)

The Noctua cooler means that you get good, silent cooling.

The motherboard is MITX, and has most of the features you need.

8GB of RAM is standard.

No OS/HDD like you requested, and the R9 270 will perform very, very well for the price right now (with the promo)

The Cooler Master Elite 110 is a personal choice, If you're okay with going any larger the 120 allows you to use a GTX 760 (MSI has one for $179 right now)

PSU is standard fare, 80+ bronze and from a decent brand.

Remember to be a good citizen and choose a 'best answer' when your problem has been resolved!

(that way people know when a problem's been resolved)

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I had my buddy go with an older GPU (HD 6990) for around $100 on ebay, fairly certain it kills an R9 270. though it is older tech with higher power use to performance, so whatever one would prefer.

Main rig

CPU: I7 4820K @4.8GHz || Cooler: Corsair H100 || Display: LG 34UM95 || MOBO: Asus Sabertooth x79 || RAM: AMD 1600MHz 2x 4GB || GPU: Two AMD R9 290's @1050MHz core 1400MHz Memory || Case: Cooler master HAF 922 || SSD: Samsung 830 128GB and PNY XLR8 120GB SSD in raid 0 || HDD: 2x Seagate barracuda 1.5TB
Guest rig
CPU: I5 3330S || MOBO: ECS H61H2-I5 || Ram: 2x 2GB Samsung 1333MHz || GPU: Radeon HD 6970 || PSU: Antec Earth-watts 750watt
HTPC
CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 720BE unlocked 4th core @3.7GHz || GPU: low profile Geforce 9500GT || random 2x 2GB ddr2 ram (don't feel like looking) || Cooler: some rosewill cooler
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I had my buddy go with an older GPU (HD 6990) for around $100 on ebay, fairly certain it kills an R9 270. though it is older tech with higher power use to performance, so whatever one would prefer.

Is it a dual-GPU card? If so then the scaling might be an issue in a lot of games :/

Also, the PSU will probably have to be upgraded, adding to cost.

Remember to be a good citizen and choose a 'best answer' when your problem has been resolved!

(that way people know when a problem's been resolved)

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I had my buddy go with an older GPU (HD 6990) for around $100 on ebay, fairly certain it kills an R9 270. though it is older tech with higher power use to performance, so whatever one would prefer.

 

Got a HD 7950 on cragslist for 125 and it doubles the FPS on my GTX 750 Ti FTW

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Is it a dual-GPU card? If so then the scaling might be an issue in a lot of games :/

Also, the PSU will probably have to be upgraded, adding to cost.

True, but the over all price to performance is still fairly high. At very least you still get the performance of a single HD 6950, and that thing still performs well with todays standards. (Though in most newer games the 6990 is well above that level.) with the $40 - $50ish add on for an 80+ bronze 600W PSU I figured it to be a fairly good budget build card.

Main rig

CPU: I7 4820K @4.8GHz || Cooler: Corsair H100 || Display: LG 34UM95 || MOBO: Asus Sabertooth x79 || RAM: AMD 1600MHz 2x 4GB || GPU: Two AMD R9 290's @1050MHz core 1400MHz Memory || Case: Cooler master HAF 922 || SSD: Samsung 830 128GB and PNY XLR8 120GB SSD in raid 0 || HDD: 2x Seagate barracuda 1.5TB
Guest rig
CPU: I5 3330S || MOBO: ECS H61H2-I5 || Ram: 2x 2GB Samsung 1333MHz || GPU: Radeon HD 6970 || PSU: Antec Earth-watts 750watt
HTPC
CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 720BE unlocked 4th core @3.7GHz || GPU: low profile Geforce 9500GT || random 2x 2GB ddr2 ram (don't feel like looking) || Cooler: some rosewill cooler
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True, but the over all price to performance is still fairly high. At very least you still get the performance of a single HD 6950, and that thing still performs well with todays standards. (Though in most newer games the 6990 is well above that level.) with the $40 - $50ish add on for an 80+ bronze 600W PSU I figured it to be a fairly good budget build card.

That's true, but he's asking for a mini-ITX system :/ It might be counterintuitive to fit a large PSU and GPU in there...

Remember to be a good citizen and choose a 'best answer' when your problem has been resolved!

(that way people know when a problem's been resolved)

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That's true, but he's asking for a mini-ITX system :/ It might be counterintuitive to fit a large PSU and GPU in there...

xD I noticed he also said silent, well i'm sure the HD 6990 is anything but that.

Main rig

CPU: I7 4820K @4.8GHz || Cooler: Corsair H100 || Display: LG 34UM95 || MOBO: Asus Sabertooth x79 || RAM: AMD 1600MHz 2x 4GB || GPU: Two AMD R9 290's @1050MHz core 1400MHz Memory || Case: Cooler master HAF 922 || SSD: Samsung 830 128GB and PNY XLR8 120GB SSD in raid 0 || HDD: 2x Seagate barracuda 1.5TB
Guest rig
CPU: I5 3330S || MOBO: ECS H61H2-I5 || Ram: 2x 2GB Samsung 1333MHz || GPU: Radeon HD 6970 || PSU: Antec Earth-watts 750watt
HTPC
CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 720BE unlocked 4th core @3.7GHz || GPU: low profile Geforce 9500GT || random 2x 2GB ddr2 ram (don't feel like looking) || Cooler: some rosewill cooler
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