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DPete27 wrote:8GB Kingston 1866 CL10 = $88
Gigabyte mITX GTX 960 = $240 (The ML07 will take GPUs up to 13" long, this was just the cheapest.)
SIlverstone ML07 = $90 + S&H or $95 w/ shipping at newegg.
AsRock H97M miTX w/ AC Wifi = $114
i5-4460 = $227
Silverstone 450W modular SFX = $105
That's $860 for a pretty gnarly system.
JustAnEngineer wrote:The Phanteks PH-TC12LS is only 72.6 mm tall (with 120x25 fan installed on top), but it has only 27.7 mm of clearance for RAM, etc. that is close to the CPU socket. You can see these dimensions in the sketch for step 9 of the installation instructions:
http://www.phanteks.com/assets/manuals/ ... nglish.jpg
Alas, it appears that aftermarket heatsinks are rather expensive north of the border.
Firestarter wrote:for what it's worth, I'm having a blast playing Burnout Paradise on my living room TV, using Steam In-home Streaming to stream it from my gaming PC to the Chromebox (with xubuntu+Steam) that is hooked up on the TV. What you need for that is a good LAN connection to the TV (I'd say at least 100mbps) and a computer that can run Linux and has a supported hardware H264 decoder or a fast processor. I hooked up the XBox 360 wireless controller for Windows too, works great
depending on what you want/need, streaming the games could work quite well for you!
K-L-Waster wrote:I was looking into Steam Streaming, and tried it out using my laptop to test. The game streaming itself worked quite well, as long as I used standard input devices. The problem I had was that the client machine never recognized my Fanatec wheel and pedal set. The wheel works fine when I connect them directly to the host PC and play there, but comes up completely blank on the streaming client system (even Steam Big Picture doesn't see it). I believe the issue there is that Steam streaming currently only supports Xinput devices and the Fanatec may be using Directinput or raw input as discussed here.
Which is a bummer, really, because spending $250 or so on a NUC is a lot more attractive than the price tag I'm looking at now
K-L-Waster wrote:HDD --> Not putting one in.
K-L-Waster wrote:Silverstone Slot Loading 6X Slim Blu Ray Writer $135 --> Ouch that's expensive!
DPete27 wrote:K-L-Waster wrote:Silverstone Slot Loading 6X Slim Blu Ray Writer $135 --> Ouch that's expensive!
Silverstone's product page says it's just a DVD burner. No bluray support. Just FYI.
DPete27 wrote:2) The AsRock H97 seems to be laid out almost exactly the same as the AsRock Z87e mITX which TR measured. Boy, I dunno, that almost looks like the Phanteks heatsink comes up juuust short of where the RAM would be. The fan overhangs a bit, but that's an additional ~25mm vertical clearance. My best advice there would be to get the mobo and CPU cooler first and see how they line up. Maybe you CAN reuse your Corsair Vengeance RAM...
DPete27 wrote:3) Are you sure you need a bluray drive? I just have an external USB DVD burner that I've only used once in 2 years. None of my computers have optical drives. YMMV.
DPete27 wrote:5) I'd spend the extra $20 on the gold rated PSU. Also, the bronze unit isn't modular.