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Xenostar said:
Mazty said:
Xenostar said:

Well its not locked down yet so lets say £500, bearing in mind i dont want any optical drives and i have spare SATA Hard Drives that i could use for the time being. Might even be able to use my power supply if its still rated well enough :)


What about an OS and screen?

The issue with the i7 range is that they really aren't worth the price - the i5 2500k is still the best CPU around that won't bottlekneck any graphics card out at the moment (within reason. Let's ignore the 7990). 

 

No idea how much that costs but something like that has room for expansion if you really want an i7 (imo not worth it) later on. Of course what you need to find is a decent low profile cooler. That may be tricky but I think scythe have a few good ones, as well as Noctus. 

 


Ah so these dual slot cards, just need 1 PCI slot but 2 mounting points inside the case, so they will work on an itx mobo?

Yep. 1 PCI-E slot but two mounting points at the back and obviously the card musn't collide with anything else on the board e.g. RAM but i've never seen a MOBOs have that issue