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[Timmy_T]

As the title says. I've spent many, many, many hours hanging around forums and watching videos, and I think I've decided on a build.

I'm in Aus for pricing. Looking to keep this as lower price as I can, as I'm a student going to uni next year. Uses are general stuff like office and browsing, with gaming in the mix, wanting decent performance at 1080p in more story driven games like Fallout and such. Basically wanna be better than consoles. Mini itx is the main thing that I want to stay, and non AMD would be nice. Anyway so far.

CPU: G3258 Anniversary

GPU: EVGA GTX 950 FTW

Motherboard: Still not sure, but itx is key. Looking at ASUS

Memory: Corsair Vengance 1600mhz 2x4gb.

Cooling: Corsair H100i.

SSD: Kingston 120gb. I'll buy a mass HDD later.

Case: Corsair 250D

Power Supply: Another thing I'm not sure of.

I think that's everything. I'm open to suggestions for everything, especially the motherboard and power supply.

Thanks!

[alexhelvetica]

What is the Kingston SSD?

[byalexandr]

250D is kinda big, I would recommend and SG05 or an SG13. The SG05 is a bit harder to build in but a little bit smaller than the SG13, but both cases are way smaller than the 250D, and much easier to carry around. Here is what I would recommend:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($64.88 @ OutletPC) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120V 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($48.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($103.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($42.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($66.89 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB Nitro Video Card  ($198.98 @ Newegg) 

Case: Silverstone Sugo SG13B Mini ITX Tower Case  ($39.99 @ Amazon) 

Power Supply: SeaSonic S12G 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  ($89.80 @ Amazon) 

Total: $656.51

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-19 08:51 EDT-0400

 

I assume you're going to OC the shit out of the Pentium. After all that's the only way to make this processor worth it's cost. I would upgrade to a 4690K down the road.

The Kingston SSD I assume you were referring to is the V300, which is such a shitty SSD it almost has HDD write speeds. The 380 Nitro is a very beautiful card, and will kick the ever living shit out of the 950. Case is an SG13, you'll be able to put in a regular ATX PSU without modding (I had to mod to fit a PSU like that in my SG05). And the PSU is short and modular with a gold rating. Plus Seasonic makes great PSUs.

 

By the way, if you ever want to make an editable list of a PC, use https://www.pcpartpicker.com/

[Timmy_T]

Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB 2.5in SSD if that helps.

[nhatduy1611]

As the title says. I've spent many, many, many hours hanging around forums and watching videos, and I think I've decided on a build.

I'm in Aus for pricing. Looking to keep this as lower price as I can, as I'm a student going to uni next year. Uses are general stuff like office and browsing, with gaming in the mix, wanting decent performance at 1080p in more story driven games like Fallout and such. Basically wanna be better than consoles. Mini itx is the main thing that I want to stay, and non AMD would be nice. Anyway so far.

CPU: G3258 Anniversary

GPU: EVGA GTX 950 FTW

Motherboard: Still not sure, but itx is key. Looking at ASUS

Memory: Corsair Vengance 1600mhz 2x4gb.

Cooling: Corsair H100i.

SSD: Kingston 120gb. I'll buy a mass HDD later.

Case: Corsair 250D

Power Supply: Another thing I'm not sure of.

I think that's everything. I'm open to suggestions for everything, especially the motherboard and power supply.

Thanks!

Look's good to me. For mini itx board asus and msi is pretty much the way to go, i will pick 1 stick of ram though since most mini itx board only have 2 ram slot so having 1 slot for future upgrade is nice since having 2 ram sticks just improve performance by a very tiny bit. I would also suggest picking up an i3 4130 too it's alot better in term of price to performance.

[Timmy_T]

Awesome, thanks byalexander, wasn't expecting that quicker reply.

Thanks for the info on the SSD, had zero personal experience with them, so thanks for saving me.

Portability isn't a major problem, I'll be chucking it on my desk and leaving it there. I did look at that case, the size is awesome, just wasn't sure about airflow and such.

Thanks again!

[jimakos234]

Budget?

Also you dont need that cpu cooler, and the 380 is better than the 960/950

The ssd now v3 is not that good.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($113.99 @ NCIX US)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i 57.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($42.66 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($66.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($44.73 @ B&H)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB Nitro Video Card  ($198.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 250D Mini ITX Tower Case  ($79.00 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $676.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-19 09:06 EDT-0400

[Timmy_T]

Budget is about $1000 AUD, obviously less is better.

[Nena Trinity]

Get a 860K or a i3 cause Pentium is awful! And well a R9 380 is what you want if you can afford it! :3

[ForsakenLive]

Don't spend over $100 in cooling with that CPU. You can get a decent OC on it even with lower tier coolers.

 

I'd advise against the Kingston SSDNow SSD, Kingston pulled a bait&switch on those drives. They basically made the product with good quality, and one day changed the production and started making slower low quality units. Old reviews and suggestions are based on the good ones, crap about the drives are the new ones. Try looking for a different drive.

 

The rest of the system seems fine. For the motherboard, there are cheap options that will allow OC, but they don't have wifi, wifi boards are more expensive.

[Timmy_T]

Kinda wanted to dive into the deep end and grab the G3258 and overclock, as I won't be doing anything CPU intensive like video or photo editing.

The R9 380 looks pretty good, never really looked into AMD cards. Cool, flashy NVidia ads must have caught me.

Thanks for the info on the Kingston SSD.

Motherboard wise, I can't find any of those boards locally. Is the Asus H97I-PLUS LGA1150 Mini-ITX Motherboard a good board?