Following the relatively successful build for myself, I want to build another m-ITX system for my girlfriend. As she lives in uni halls and has many many stuff, it's going to have to be tiny though. She currently uses a laptop too so it definitely can't be too big. Being a student, I don't have millions either and would like to have a budget set, I guess the most important thing is the case really as it controls what I can use and what I can't.
As it's mainly for uni use the main tasks it would be for is just to web browse, play music and stream video online (thankfully uni internet is amazingly fast). However, I would like to be able to play a game called League of Legends on it at possible 1920x1080 (1080p) or at least 1680x1050 with max settings. Now my current system (i3 540 + 6850) runs it fine obviously but I was wondering what the worse graphics card/processor combo I would be able to use is. It says the recommended system requirements are a 3Ghz processor (single core I assume) and a 8800GT or equivalent card. I'm guessing this is for 1280*1024 res though.
I'm definitely going with a WD Caviar Green 1TB disk along with an SSD (probably OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB as that's what I have on hand right now but may sell it and get a smaller SSD to spend the money on other parts as it's rather overkill for this system).
This leaves the CPU/Motherboard, graphics card and case choice. For RAM, I'm defo going 4GB as it's so cheap in the UK and we won't need more than that.
Now the CPU is dependent on the motherboard, I could probably get away with a E8400 and a mini ITX 775 board (not sure if they have full PCI-E 16x slots though) or I could gra b a Gigabyte H55N-USB3 along with the cheapest i3 I can find (exactly what I have in my build right now) or the last option would be an AMD ITX board along with a dual/triple Athlon II core.
The graphics card would be dependent on the case and vice versa but I would want a nettop style case. I've noticed that there is a half height 5670 low profile card as well as single slot 5750s (which does have dual slot coolers). I don't think I can get away with anything lesser in power though. I'm not too familiar with the nettop style cases so not sure what I could use, but I know the Antec ISK cases (or whatever they're called) are in the right direction.
Anyways, thanks!
As it's mainly for uni use the main tasks it would be for is just to web browse, play music and stream video online (thankfully uni internet is amazingly fast). However, I would like to be able to play a game called League of Legends on it at possible 1920x1080 (1080p) or at least 1680x1050 with max settings. Now my current system (i3 540 + 6850) runs it fine obviously but I was wondering what the worse graphics card/processor combo I would be able to use is. It says the recommended system requirements are a 3Ghz processor (single core I assume) and a 8800GT or equivalent card. I'm guessing this is for 1280*1024 res though.
I'm definitely going with a WD Caviar Green 1TB disk along with an SSD (probably OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB as that's what I have on hand right now but may sell it and get a smaller SSD to spend the money on other parts as it's rather overkill for this system).
This leaves the CPU/Motherboard, graphics card and case choice. For RAM, I'm defo going 4GB as it's so cheap in the UK and we won't need more than that.
Now the CPU is dependent on the motherboard, I could probably get away with a E8400 and a mini ITX 775 board (not sure if they have full PCI-E 16x slots though) or I could gra b a Gigabyte H55N-USB3 along with the cheapest i3 I can find (exactly what I have in my build right now) or the last option would be an AMD ITX board along with a dual/triple Athlon II core.
The graphics card would be dependent on the case and vice versa but I would want a nettop style case. I've noticed that there is a half height 5670 low profile card as well as single slot 5750s (which does have dual slot coolers). I don't think I can get away with anything lesser in power though. I'm not too familiar with the nettop style cases so not sure what I could use, but I know the Antec ISK cases (or whatever they're called) are in the right direction.
Anyways, thanks!