1. What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming, no overclocking. Want to be able to play Diablo 3 and GW2 on medium settings, and hopefully games for the next 2 years at low to medium settings.
2. What's your budget? under $1000. Trying to build something similar to the $950 X51 (8gb ram, GTX 555, intel i5) but custom built.
3. Where do you live? I have fry's but will probably buy everything from newegg, amazon and tiger direct.
4. What exact parts do you need for that budget?
CPU. Probably going to get an i5 sandybridge (after hopeful price drop on april 29th)
Ram 8gb, doesn't matter too much.
Motherboard - Don't know anything about sff mobos.
Case. Also no idea. Would like to keep it equal to or smaller than the size of an xbox 360.
PSU - know nothing about SFF psus
Graphics card - No clue about SFF gfx cards. Prefer nvidia.
HDD - 1TB or so is plenty. No backup or SSD.
5. If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? nope. have mouse keyboard and monitor.
6. What specific features do you need in a motherboard? No i/o needed. Only usb for external drive / mouse / keyboard and DVI or VGA for monitor.
7. What resolution output do you need? 720p max, but monitor isn't even that.
8. Does this system need to fit into a particular space? Carry-on bag
9. How comfortable are you with custom case design/modification and electrical wiring? Prefer not to do any of this but I can at worst case. I have a dremel if need be and I can solder.
10. How important is the noise/silence of this sytem? Coolness is more important than noise. Want fan cooling only. No water.
11. How mobile does this system need to be? Fit on carry-on bag one time. Should usually stay put though.
12. Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? Probably buy OEM Win 7 from Amazon / newegg if it works with the mobo.
13. When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Next few weeks, probably after sandybridge prices hopefully drop.
Thanks for any help. I have built plenty of PCs before but never a SFF one. My biggest fear is cooling and getting a graphics card that can handle diablo 3/gw2 on medium settings but not overheat or pull too much power from the PSU
2. What's your budget? under $1000. Trying to build something similar to the $950 X51 (8gb ram, GTX 555, intel i5) but custom built.
3. Where do you live? I have fry's but will probably buy everything from newegg, amazon and tiger direct.
4. What exact parts do you need for that budget?
CPU. Probably going to get an i5 sandybridge (after hopeful price drop on april 29th)
Ram 8gb, doesn't matter too much.
Motherboard - Don't know anything about sff mobos.
Case. Also no idea. Would like to keep it equal to or smaller than the size of an xbox 360.
PSU - know nothing about SFF psus
Graphics card - No clue about SFF gfx cards. Prefer nvidia.
HDD - 1TB or so is plenty. No backup or SSD.
5. If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? nope. have mouse keyboard and monitor.
6. What specific features do you need in a motherboard? No i/o needed. Only usb for external drive / mouse / keyboard and DVI or VGA for monitor.
7. What resolution output do you need? 720p max, but monitor isn't even that.
8. Does this system need to fit into a particular space? Carry-on bag
9. How comfortable are you with custom case design/modification and electrical wiring? Prefer not to do any of this but I can at worst case. I have a dremel if need be and I can solder.
10. How important is the noise/silence of this sytem? Coolness is more important than noise. Want fan cooling only. No water.
11. How mobile does this system need to be? Fit on carry-on bag one time. Should usually stay put though.
12. Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? Probably buy OEM Win 7 from Amazon / newegg if it works with the mobo.
13. When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Next few weeks, probably after sandybridge prices hopefully drop.
Thanks for any help. I have built plenty of PCs before but never a SFF one. My biggest fear is cooling and getting a graphics card that can handle diablo 3/gw2 on medium settings but not overheat or pull too much power from the PSU