Having only a stock, non-gaming laptop at school really limits my ability to adequately enjoy games at school, so I'm looking to build a really tiny mITX rig to throw on my desk, or under it, and have something with substantial power.
So far I was looking at pairing an i3-3225 with the ASRock Z77E board, a set of the Samsung RAM everyone here loves (and I already have a set of in my home desktop), and the ASUS GTX 460 in my desktop as well. Now I just have a few questions, as I'm not too familiar with Intel's performance on the lower end. Would this set up be enough to play GW2 at Medium (let's assume 1080) at <30 FPS?
For a case I was looking at the SG05 with the 450W PSU already in it. It seems to be the smallest mITX case I can find, and it comes with a PSU, which would help offset some of the cost. I live near a Microcenter so the CPU and mobo would be ~$240 out the door. I don't think or know if I need to upgrade to the 3570K, but please list all options you can reasonably come up with.
Edited by Nhb93 - 11/7/12 at 8:43pm
So far I was looking at pairing an i3-3225 with the ASRock Z77E board, a set of the Samsung RAM everyone here loves (and I already have a set of in my home desktop), and the ASUS GTX 460 in my desktop as well. Now I just have a few questions, as I'm not too familiar with Intel's performance on the lower end. Would this set up be enough to play GW2 at Medium (let's assume 1080) at <30 FPS?
For a case I was looking at the SG05 with the 450W PSU already in it. It seems to be the smallest mITX case I can find, and it comes with a PSU, which would help offset some of the cost. I live near a Microcenter so the CPU and mobo would be ~$240 out the door. I don't think or know if I need to upgrade to the 3570K, but please list all options you can reasonably come up with.
Edited by Nhb93 - 11/7/12 at 8:43pm
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