Help With a Micro ATX Sysem Please

joroma · 5 Nov 2015 at 14:30

Will be used for some video editing, streaming and maybe light gaming when my son is at home.

I already have:
Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT or an Antec 550W Basiq Plus-GB power supply.
500gb sata hard drive.
A maybe working GeForce GTX 460 1024mb GDDR5 gfx and a maybe working Sapphire HD4870.

All my data/music/photos/video is held on a Synology DS212J NAS.

Am looking for a quick start up so would be buying a solid state drive for the OS (Win 10 pro) then using my old 500gb drive for other programmes and general fiddling around.

I want a small mATX case and am planning on buying a Fractal Core 1100.

So what recommendations for mATX mobo, intel cpu, memory and gfx card if mine aren't working? Would like on board graphics so the board will run without a card if necessary but want to include a gfx card in the build. Budget about £500 to £550 but this may need to be higher depending on the gfx card situation.

The Fractal Core 1100, http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/core-series/core-1100, isn't a huge case so wouldn't want a huge GFX card.

Would like it to be fairly quiet as well!

Thanks in anticipation....

mickyflinn · 5 Nov 2015 at 21:46

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Crucial BX200 240GB SSD SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (CT240BX200SSD1)= £62.99
1 x Intel Core i5-6500 3.20GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £169.99
1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £99.95
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (BLS2= £38.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 Nitro 380 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Backplate (11242-13-20G)= £169.99

Total: £552.41
(includes shipping: £10.50)

Second option is if you reuse your ram.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Crucial BX200 240GB SSD SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (CT240BX200SSD1)= £62.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4590 3.30GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £155.99
1 x ASRock H97M Pro4 Intel H97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard= £68.99
1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-90101-10P)= £249.95

Total: £549.02
(includes shipping: £11.10)

joroma · 6 Nov 2015 at 11:10

Thanks. Will look at that in more detail. Considerable difference in gfx price not fully offset by cheaper cpu. Is there a huge difference in performance for video editing? Ability for gaming is very secondary really, in fact not really essential on reflection.

mickyflinn · 6 Nov 2015 at 12:26

If yout not gaming much then get a cheaper gpu and spend the diffrence on an I7.

Do you want a gpu in the spec ?

Do you want an overclocking cpu ?

joroma · 6 Nov 2015 at 15:29

No need for an overclocking cpu. Interesting idea to spend less on gfx and go for i7. Would an i7 with a mobo with onboard graphics, such as the Gigabyte one you suggested, be any good for video editing or any gaming?

mickyflinn · 6 Nov 2015 at 19:34

joroma said:
No need for an overclocking cpu. Interesting idea to spend less on gfx and go for i7. Would an i7 with a mobo with onboard graphics, such as the Gigabyte one you suggested, be any good for video editing or any gaming?

I would try it all depends on whether you can take advantage of a gpu. You always got you gtx 460 to fall back on.

Could go for this I7 option a little over budget but 6 cores 12 threads should fly when encoding , and 16gb of ram.

NOTE this option has no onboard graphics.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte X99M Gaming 5 - Intel Core i7 5820K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***£30 Saving***= £444.98
1 x Adata XPG Z1 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit (AX4U2400W4G16-QRZ)= £79.99
1 x Crucial BX200 240GB SSD SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (CT240BX200SSD1)= £59.99

Total: £596.06
(includes shipping: £11.10)