Help configuring ASrock M8

[xLegendary]

I felt totally in love with this case, will look awesome in my living room as my badass Steam Box. Apparently they got it designed by BMWDesignworksUSA and ASRock.

Considering the power specifications and the case size, what would be the best config for this beauty?
I wanted to keep the power consumption and heat and lowest but still be able to game most of the games at high res.

 

[lukart]

Where will you buy it? And which version? I seen newegg listing only the 450w model, which will limit your choices.. Bu you can still make a good setup...

 

[leedreamer189]

It's really cool design, but a bit bigger than I expected. Anyways my suggestion for you:

Intel Core i5-4690 Haswell 3.5GHz LGA 1150 84W Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4600 BX80646I54690
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model F3-1600C11S-8GRSL
OCZ ARC 100 ARC100-25SAT3-240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
MSI N750TI-2GD5/OC GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card
ASRock M8 Mini ITX Gaming PC 4th Gen Intel Core i7/i5/i3/Xeon/Pentium/Celeron Intel Socket LGA1150 Intel Z87 1 x HDMI Barebone

 

[lukart]

It's really cool design, but a bit bigger than I expected. Anyways my suggestion for you:

Intel Core i5-4690 Haswell 3.5GHz LGA 1150 84W Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4600 BX80646I54690
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model F3-1600C11S-8GRSL
OCZ ARC 100 ARC100-25SAT3-240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
MSI N750TI-2GD5/OC GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card
ASRock M8 Mini ITX Gaming PC 4th Gen Intel Core i7/i5/i3/Xeon/Pentium/Celeron Intel Socket LGA1150 Intel Z87 1 x HDMI Barebone

I would try at least a 270 on that config. But if your going to get the 450W maybe even better idea would be to wait till Jan for the 960 series from nv!

 

[xLegendary]

How about this one:

CPU : Core i7-4790 + Cooler Master Geminll M4
RAM : 2 x 4GB DDR3-1600 Corsair
Graphics : NVIDIA GTX970 Zotac AMP!
HDD : 1 x 128GB SSD Intel + 2TB 3.5”HDD WD

Would it be too much for the 600W?

 

[WiSK]

How about this one:

CPU : Core i7-4790 + Cooler Master Geminll M4
RAM : 2 x 4GB DDR3-1600 Corsair
Graphics : NVIDIA GTX970 Zotac AMP!
HDD : 1 x 128GB SSD Intel + 2TB 3.5”HDD WD

Would it be too much for the 600W?

You can power two systems like that...

i7-4790 draws like 50W under normal use
gtx970 draws 145W or so at max load
motherboard and the rest is not going to be more than 50W

 

[xLegendary]

You can power two systems like that...

i7-4790 draws like 50W under normal use
gtx970 draws 145W or so at max load
motherboard and the rest is not going to be more than 50W

I should be fine with a 970 card on a 450W then?
Interesting...

 

[WiSK]

I should be fine with a 970 card on a 450W then?
Interesting...

You'd be surprised at the range of the Silverstone (Enhance) SFX units: Aibohphobia ran two 980s on an X99 board using the SX-600G with juice to spare.

ST45SF-G review http://www.chiphell.com/article-4711-5.html
Although this review is in Chinese, you can see in the graph that they managed to get 44 amps out of the ST45SF-G. That's 528W. Even up to 48 amps but the fan wasn't strong enough to cool it anymore.

SX600-G review http://www.chiphell.com/article-12094-5.html
Again showing a higher capacity than rated, 58 amps is almost 700W. This is incidentally how the Dirac SFX-L unit can be rated for 650W using the same circuitry. The larger fan allows it to stay in gold rating efficiency at the higher output.

 

[leedreamer189]

From the Chiphell chart, looks like RM650 is also that'd be good to consider since Silverstone isn't as easy to get?