WIN Silverstone ITX Starter Kit Competition

[Wraith]

Originally Posted by mcammidge

Massive thanks just picked up my prize from the post office today! Was wondering if anyone out there would fancy recommending me a good mobo/cpu & Graphics card for this build, im thinking either Linux steam stream or a Windows box for living room gaming

Hey so glad your happy, what is your ideal budget to fill the case?

[mcammidge]

around 300 to 400. my main build is decent so was thinking of streaming most of my games over steam.

[Wraith]

Affordable little AMD - MSI steam streamer.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£55.03 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: MSI A88XI AC V2 Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard (£68.79 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4G DDR3-1600 Memory (£45.97 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 250X 2GB Video Card (£84.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £254.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-08 19:00 BST+0100

Intel.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£142.50 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: MSI H97I AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (£77.96 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4G DDR3-1600 Memory (£45.97 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card (£99.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £366.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-08 19:08 BST+0100

I know there are loads of guys here that have done ITX builds, quite a few in the project logs.

[mcammidge]

thanks mate will take a look

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PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/xdQTxr
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/xdQTxr/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£144.97 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (£105.56 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4G DDR3-1600 Memory (£45.97 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£69.58 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB STRIX Video Card (£132.90 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £498.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-08 21:04 BST+0100

Can I do better for <£500?