Mini ITX Gaming PC build.

Antixx · October 25, 2016

Hey everyone! Long time lurker just made an account tonight and wanted to get your opinions on my semi budget gaming build

1. Budget & Location

Budget:$1100 US

Location: Pennsylvania 'murica

2. Aim

1080P gaming on my bedroom 42"(107cm) Panasonic flatscreen TV. I usually sit within 5ft (1.5m) of my TV when I played on my XB360 (yeah I know I've cleaned up though) so the shortcomings of tiny text on game menus that are not optimized for such a screen aren't as much of an issue. I plan on playing from the comfort of my fold up camping chair (eventually gonna just buy a recliner for my room). Games I'm going to be playing are Mechwarrior Online, DOOM, Fallout 1/2/3/NV/4, Battlefield 1, WoW, and anything Bethesda wants to shove down my throat in the Elder Scrolls universe!

3. Monitors

Just the 42"(107cm) TV and maaaaaaaaybe a 27"(68.5cm) 4k monitor in the future if decide to move it to a desk.

4. Peripherals

As far as peripherals go I was looking at the ROCCAT laptop keyboard (mechanical) with a matching TYON 16 button gaming mouse as well as an Xbox controller for emulated old school games. It's going to run Windows 10 which I already budgeted an install thumb drive into the build.

5. Why are you upgrading?

I'm posting this from the only PC (if you want to call it that) that I own, which is an HP 13x360 laptop which has an AMD A8-6410 with R5 graphics. I swear my TI-89 in high school had more gaming power than this lethargic hunk of crap.

Now that that's out of the way my Build components are as follows

Case: Silverstone RVZ02B Mini ITX slim case

Power Supply: Corsair SF450 Gold certified 450W SFX

Motherboard: MSI Gaming Intel Skylake B150 Mini ITX

Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Gemini II M4

Memory: Crucial 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2133 MT/s 288 pin non ECC

OS Drive: SanDisk Z400S 256GB SSD

Storage Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM

Graphics card: EVGA GeForce GTX-1060 6GB single fan 6.8"(173mm) GPU

I've watched a few videos on the Silverstone case and read up a little bit as well. I think that the shorter GPU should leave enough space for the 3.5"(88.9mm) Standard HDD. I plan on this thing taking up the empty space the Xbox used to in my entertainment stand. Also seeing as it's taking the place of the 360 I have a bunch of DVD's that aren't available digitally and I was wondering what kind of slim blu-ray optical drive I can use for this case.

According to userbenchmark.com it gets aircraft carrier rating in both desktop and gaming categories and a yacht rating in workstation. So what do you guys think? Do I have a winner here?

October 25, 2016

just keep in mind that you cannot oc on an b150 board

Antixx · October 25, 2016

To be honest I've never been really comfortable with overclocking. So that won't really be an issue to me.

brob · October 25, 2016

The Gemni 2 M4 cpu cooler is a touch too tall to fit in the specified case limits.

There is little point in going with an unlocked cpu when the motherboard does not support overclocking and the case does not support cpu coolers that would allow for overclocking.

Consider: an i7, different memory, and a different cpu cooler.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($293.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i 33.8 CFM CPU Cooler ($38.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI B150I GAMING PRO Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($76.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Sandisk Z400s 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.49 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB SC GAMING Video Card ($259.99 @ B&H)
Case: Silverstone RVZ02B HTPC Case ($64.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Corsair SF 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $944.21
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-25 09:37 EDT-0400

Antixx · October 25, 2016

That actually makes a lot of sense. Kinda shows how I haven't built a PC since about '06 lol

I've tinkered with the list you provided though and thought about maybe dropping back to an i5 and upping the GPU with the savings. How's this look?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($214.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i 33.8 CFM CPU Cooler ($38.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI B150I GAMING PRO Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($76.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Sandisk Z400s 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($43.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.49 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Mini ITX OC Video Card ($384.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Silverstone RVZ02B HTPC Case ($64.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Corsair SF 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $964.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-25 12:12 EDT-0400

brob · October 25, 2016

3 hours ago, Antixx said:

That actually makes a lot of sense. Kinda shows how I haven't built a PC since about '06 lol

I've tinkered with the list you provided though and thought about maybe dropping back to an i5 and upping the GPU with the savings. How's this look?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($214.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i 33.8 CFM CPU Cooler ($38.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI B150I GAMING PRO Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($76.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Sandisk Z400s 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($43.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.49 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Mini ITX OC Video Card ($384.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Silverstone RVZ02B HTPC Case ($64.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Corsair SF 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $964.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-25 12:12 EDT-0400

A reasonable option. My only thought is that a 256GB ssd would be much better. Perhaps drop the Noctua cooler and use the stock Intel to squeeze a larger ssd into the budget.