couch-coop Smallest and cheapest build possible with recycled HW

[Super1337victim]

The Idea:

I have some hardware around and don´t use it. So I want to build a small computer for the living room.

I want it as tiny as possible and i want to use the parts i already have. 

 

Note: I live in germany, so my pricing is in Euro € 

 

Parts I have:

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Cooler: Noctua NHD14

GPU: GTX- 980 Strix

RAM: Random 16Gb DDR3 Ram 

 

Parts I need:

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Case 

CPU  

PSU

Mainboard

 

Thoughts and ideas I have:

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Case:

I tent to get the " Kolink Satellite Mini-ITX"  for 32€. It seems to be the only case that small, that fits the Strix and the Noctua cooler. I already spinned my head around the DAN-Case (Daniel the inventor) of the case even lifes in my city. But 200€ is waaaay to much for a case. 

 

PSU:

With the kolink case i would go for any cheap and solid quiet one that fits. 

 

CPU:

I tent to get an Athlon x4 880K. Because 4 cores and 80€

OR i3-6100. But it will cost 20 bucks more and the 880K has a higher score (Passmark). But i could easily upgrade on a i5 or i7 with a 1151 Board.

But I need to buy DDR4 Ram with the Skylake chip..... 

 

Oh and i know that a "cheap" CPU will bottleneck the 980 but i don´t care.

 

 

Mainboard: 

I don´t care. Any board with pcie Lane and 3.0 internal header will do the job. No wifi needed.

 

 

[DaBeggad]

you want cheapest pc and have a 980... but you dont care about bottlenecking... dude sell the fkin 980 and buy a 960 or something like that if you dont care about performance anyway

[Super1337victim]

1 minute ago, DaBeggad said:

you want cheapest pc and have a 980... but you dont care about bottlenecking... dude sell the fkin 980 and buy a 960 or something like that if you dont care about performance anyway

Nah I don´t want the cheapest. I want to keep the HW i have and make use of them in a new Build. i wan´t to start with the smallest expand. Maybe I won´t use the PC a lot.

 

I don´t want to sell the 980 used for a low price and get a 960 new.

 

And the GPU is not the point here.  

[DaBeggad]

5 minutes ago, Super1337victim said:

Nah I don´t want the cheapest. I want to keep the HW i have and make use of them in a new Build. i wan´t to start with the smallest expand. Maybe I won´t use the PC a lot.

 

I don´t want to sell the 980 used for a low price and get a 960 new.

 

And the GPU is not the point here.  

i would say go for the i3.... a thermaltake core v1 and a Asrock H110M-DGS/D3 S1151 mATX Intel H110 DDR3 ... all on amazon

[Super1337victim]

16 minutes ago, DaBeggad said:

i would say go for the i3.... a thermaltake core v1 and a Asrock H110M-DGS/D3 S1151 mATX Intel H110 DDR3 ... all on amazon

The case looks promising. Going for  1151 board with ddr3 support is a great idea. Thanks a lot  

 

[Princess Luna]

22 minutes ago, Super1337victim said:

Nah I don´t want the cheapest. I want to keep the HW i have and make use of them in a new Build. i wan´t to start with the smallest expand. Maybe I won´t use the PC a lot.

 

I don´t want to sell the 980 used for a low price and get a 960 new.

 

And the GPU is not the point here.  

Selling the GTX 980 really doesn't make much sense especially with the $ losses of selling used hardware, I believe the i3 6100 on a mATX H110m would give you the best decent performance result, a Xigmatek Calibre 600W XCP-A600 80PLUS is a an extremely cheap PSU that would still handle the system well enough, for case find any that fits your taste and the hardware.

Now if you still want like the smallest rig possible the right way to go would be a 

ASRock Intel LGA 1151 Mini-ITX H110M-ITX DDR4, in a Zalman ZM-M1 Case it would be very small but there would be RAM issue since you'd have to go for DDR4, but considering this would improve greatly your future proof already going with a DDR4 maybe it's worth considering, this machine could be futurely upgraded and will work as a "high end" console you can place besides the television and have a xbox controller connected to it.

[Super1337victim]

8 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Selling the GTX 980 really doesn't make much sense especially with the $ losses of selling used hardware, I believe the i3 6100 on a mATX H110m would give you the best decent performance result, a Xigmatek Calibre 600W XCP-A600 80PLUS is a an extremely cheap PSU that would still handle the system well enough, for case find any that fits your taste and the hardware.

Exactly what i thought with selling hardware and buying "lower end" with the money. 

 

With the idea of using DDR3 on a 1151 board I found the  ASUS H170I-Plus D3 . SO i can keep the DDR3 Ram. Use a skylake chip and will stay with Mini-ITX.

 

Case and powersupply will be no hastle to find now. 

15 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

..., this machine could be futurely upgraded and will work as a "high end" console you can place besides the television and have a xbox controller connected to it.

I hope this will be the future szenario for it.

 

Thank you guys, for your time and help. 

[Princess Luna]

@Super1337victim The Mobo does seems very promising and I do agree with it, nonethless keep in mind that Skylake is supposed to work with low voltage DDR3, if your sticks are 1.5v it will still work but it can reduce the CPU life, but if that is the case you can always try through BIOS reduce the voltage to 1.2-1.35v which will do the trick.

 

cheers!

[Quaker]

I'd suggest a Corsair 250D or CM Elite 130 for the case.

PSU: CX550M

To re-use the DDR3 RAM go for the X4 880K or some form of Intel Haswell i3, such as the i3-4170.

Motherboard - any ITX motherboard that suits the CPU.