ITX Building Help?

[OneDoller]

Before Christmas I need a $1000 mini ITX build with the following...

Core i5 or i7 "k" series 

Overclockable ITX board

Sealed water Cooling loop

8-16GB DDR3-1866 or higher

2TB HDD

256GB SSD

GTX 970

Good PSU

Optical Drive

AfterMarket Thermal Paste

Can only go up to $50 off budget

Smallest case possible (no pridogy's)

I tried everything on pcpartpicker but I cant find a combination... Anyone help?

[Geekazoid]

Before Christmas I need a $1000 mini ITX build with the following...

Core i5 or i7 "k" series 

Overclockable ITX board

Sealed water Cooling loop

8-16GB DDR3-1866 or higher

2TB HDD

256GB SSD

GTX 970

Good PSU

Optical Drive

AfterMarket Thermal Paste

Can only go up to $50 off budget

Smallest case possible (no pridogy's)

I tried everything on pcpartpicker but I cant find a combination... Anyone help?

With all of your requirements you'd be hard pressed to get all of that for $1,000 or less. You might have figured out what you can forgo to keep the build under your $1,000 budget, because I don't think you can get all of that for $1,000. I'd be happy to be wrong for your sake.

[Fate]

Give me a few minutes, I'll try and build you one

[Hyttech]

With all of your requirements you'd be hard pressed to get all of that for $1,000 or less. You might have figured out what you can forgo to keep the build under your $1,000 budget, because I don't think you can get all of that for $1,000. I'd be happy to be wrong for your sake.

 

 

Hey OP, heres a somewhat $1000 build (you can cut some more corners to save if you want) 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($207.27 @ TigerDirect) 

CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X31 69.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($59.99 @ NZXT) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($102.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: Kingston Savage 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($88.99 @ Directron) 

Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($98.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

Storage: Western Digital WD Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($69.99 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card  ($319.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

Case: Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced (Black) Mini ITX Tower Case  ($37.99 @ Micro Center) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($49.99 @ NCIX US) 

Optical Drive: Asus BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer  ($29.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $1066.15

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-28 10:14 EST-0500

 

No paste since I am not an expert on such a matter.

[Cad6500]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Py78XL Base price is $1086... and cable management would suck, but this is what I came up with

[Alurit]

there's no way it's gonna fit in a $1000 budget. just go with 8 gigs of 1600 cl9 ram, should not make a difference in gaming compared to a cl10 or cl11 1866. anyone still uses optical drives? 

[Geekazoid]

That's kinda my point though, he can't get all he's wanting for $1,000 or less. Corners are going to have to be cut.

@Hyttech

[Fate]

Left about $100 for whatever case  & thermal paste you want

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($207.27 @ TigerDirect) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H90 94.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($102.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($98.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.99 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card  ($329.90 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($33.99 @ Newegg) 

Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  ($19.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $943.08

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-28 10:19 EST-0500

[Hyttech]

That's kinda my point though, he can't get all he's wanting for $1,000 or less. Corners are going to have to be cut.

@Hyttech

Yeah I guess that is true, unless OP is banking on there being a massive sale before Christmas

[Geekazoid]

Yeah I guess that is true, unless OP is banking on there being a massive sale before Christmas

Haha yeah, well good luck with that.

[TassieTim]

yeah going to be to tight of a budget for the hardware your after

only cases i can think of not prodigy , would be Corsair Graphite 380T , Obsidian 250D or SilverStone Raven RVZ01 possible a EVGA Hadron Hydro and they wont be cheap on top the other parts

 

 

half the budget is going into the graphics card at the minium