Inklingsaurus
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- Jun 12, 2013
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It's been a long time since I've been in the desktop world, at least since my old beloved Dell died a year ago. Ever since Bioshock Infinite came out I've had a hankering to get back into gaming, and now I'm hoping to finally make it happen.
This will be my first Mini-ITX build. I've been watching them with interest since they were a Via-only thing, and now seems like an awesome time to jump in.
Build so far:
Case: Silverstone SG06BB-Lite
PSU: Silverstone 450w SFX Modular PSU
CPU: Intel 4770k
Mobo: Asrock Z87E-ITX
RAM: 16 GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz
SSD: Intel 520 240GB
HDD: Old 1Tb from my dead computer, which hopefully still has my old files on it... somewhere...
ODD: Panasonic does-anyone-care-anymore?
The big questions that remain are:
1. Aftermarket cooling! Necessary? Classy? Ostentatious?
2. Video cards! Short ones? Long ones? Ones that are not out yet?
I likely will not be overclocking, or only doing so extremely modestly. No more than 6 Ghz on LN2.
I'll probably be pursuing efforts to make this as quiet as possible given the components, so any advice on various air cooling / closed-loop-H20 setups would be much appreciated. I've been poring over the ridiculously-huge SG05 thread, and it looks like everyone has their own take on what the best solution is.
I'll plan on updating more as things move along and once it's built. I feel like a little kid lost among you pros here, so any advice would be much appreciated! This forum has been hugely helpful in getting this together.
This will be my first Mini-ITX build. I've been watching them with interest since they were a Via-only thing, and now seems like an awesome time to jump in.
Build so far:
Case: Silverstone SG06BB-Lite
PSU: Silverstone 450w SFX Modular PSU
CPU: Intel 4770k
Mobo: Asrock Z87E-ITX
RAM: 16 GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz
SSD: Intel 520 240GB
HDD: Old 1Tb from my dead computer, which hopefully still has my old files on it... somewhere...
ODD: Panasonic does-anyone-care-anymore?
The big questions that remain are:
1. Aftermarket cooling! Necessary? Classy? Ostentatious?
2. Video cards! Short ones? Long ones? Ones that are not out yet?
I likely will not be overclocking, or only doing so extremely modestly. No more than 6 Ghz on LN2.
I'll probably be pursuing efforts to make this as quiet as possible given the components, so any advice on various air cooling / closed-loop-H20 setups would be much appreciated. I've been poring over the ridiculously-huge SG05 thread, and it looks like everyone has their own take on what the best solution is.
I'll plan on updating more as things move along and once it's built. I feel like a little kid lost among you pros here, so any advice would be much appreciated! This forum has been hugely helpful in getting this together.