Recommend Me a Low Power Budget Build - Page 3

Not if you don't overclock and stick to the TDP rating of the board.

BUT the phases on the board need to be of reliable quality.

Very good job

Real small plus real good:

i5 3470 w/ ASRock B75 Pro3M
4x 4GB G.Skill NT/KVR (Value RAM clocks well)
Any full-size PCI slot GPU you desire - as long as it doesn't have heatpipes that stick out a lot.
Any regular SATA DVD drive.
Any regular SATA HDD (you can have up to two HDDs in this small wonder)
FSP450-60GHS or the Silverstone ST45SF.
Inwin BK644 Chassis (it's a really tiny mATX chassis. You'd think it's a mid-sized mITX chassis.)
CoolerMaster Vortex Plus.
Replace the whiny, crappy Blademaster on the Vortex with something good, like a Delta with PWM or the like. These are powerful fans that will run waaaaaaaaaaaaaay down low thanks to the excellent fan control on the Nuvoton IC that Asrock loves to use. If Level 1 in the BIOS isn't enough, there's a custom mode ranging from 1-255 in which you can enter the ideal value of fan speed.

Might be a little costly; and you can replace some of the parts if you want to lower the costs.

i3 3220 w/ ASRock H71M-DGS (this is the entry level board - tiny but really cost effective. Downside is that it has only two RAM slots, something I personally would recommend against if you do memory intensive work.)
Seasonic SS-300SF or similar SFX sized power supply. I know the Inwin BK in Europe and America comes with a default FSP300-60GLS PSU which is very much adequate for your needs as long as your graphics card has a single 6-pin PCIe connector. Although it isn't 80PLUS certiified, it's a solid PSU which will do rated capacity with no problem. The FSP450 was suggested initially, to cater for better GPUs should you want them.

Or the very last cost saving option (which I would really recommend against) is ditching the Vortex Plus for the stock cooler.
Yes, I understand that the BK is engineered to work IN CONJUNCTION as well as IMPROVE the airflow of the Intel stock cooler and subsequently the chassis - but given the wimpy size of today's Intel heatsinks, it's something you wouldn't want to risk because you want quiet.

However, that does not mean you've lost all hope. ASRock has LGA775 mountings on their motherboards and so if you can find a decent, socket 775 heatsink from the Pentium D, early C2D or C2Q era which is huge and has a copper core - buy it, clean it up and use it. They cool way better than the modern, low-profile solutions.

Hope this helped.
Edited by Volvo - 9/13/12 at 5:03am

The FM2 boards look great, I see motherboard manufacturers are really stepping up to the plate with the quality. You can see it in the new boards: most of the mATX already feature VRM cooling (huge step up from AM3+ platform boards), Biostar introducing an 8+2 phase, etc.

Yeah an H80 will fit any motherboard

You just gotta make sure the rad gets enough clearance to be mounted properly inside the case

good build XD but just a try bro

PCPartPicker part list

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($118.24 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($49.98 @ NCIX US)

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($39.00 @ Newegg)

Storage: Hitachi 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($35.99 @ NCIX US)

Video Card: HIS Radeon HD 7870 2GB Video Card ($199.99 @ Newegg)

Case: BitFenix Merc Beta (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ NCIX US)

Power Supply: XFX 550W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($44.99 @ NCIX US)