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    Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    I've seen a few cheapish ones around the £60 mark. Not after anything special, was going to get a Coolermaster Elite 120 ITX Case and build a cheap i3/5 system for budget gaming.

    Anyone own/recommend a board?

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    Looking for a couple of USB3 ports and enough room for a decent GFX card (nothing like a dual card setup or anything)

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    Don't have a m-itx rig myself but the cheapest one that Scan sells is the MSI B75IA-E33 and it seems to be a decent enough basic board from this review on tweaktown. No overclocking though on B75.

    The ASUS H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard is £63 but i really don't like their new gold colour scheme and can't find any reviews either..

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    Agree on the B75 based ITX model. Closest to the desired £60 while still having native USB3.0 support.

    By the way I don't think under a budget gaming system he was ever planning to overclock ;-)

    EDIT: or if you are all right with a third party USB3.0 controller, this could be a option too Asus P8H61-I.

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    Nice one, will check them out when I can get away with it at work. Next question (probably belongs in the CPU section) 3220 vs an i5 big performance gain? Looking at ~90 vs ~140 £

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    Go used, either here or eBay. £100 can buy you a Ivy Bridge i5-3470. Worst case, you can always have the lowest i5 and it would be still below your minimal £90.

    EDIT: Go to eBay, Advanced search and Sold Auctions for i5-3450 and some of them sold around £90. i5-3330 around £80.

    Novatech as a eBay seller is quite good (got some i5 and i3 for sale as well as some Pentium CPUs).

    Or you can always look at the following graph (used Google translate) and see for yourself the difference > Effect of processor performance in games.
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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    Nice one will check them out!

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    If you are not going for a K class chip, you might as well buy a MoBo which supports undervoltage.
    At the same performance less heat and consumption ) make sure you stress & test it.

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    Had to google undervoltage to see what it's all about - indeed looks to be the go - % wise is there any rough starting points? 5% under then Prime95 it?

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    Undervoltage should mean that you still run the chip on the stock frequency but at lower voltage (lower either in idle or at load/turbo or both) thus achieving lower consumption and temperatures.
    You probably read about underclocking where you lower the frequency of the chip as compared to stock values thus achieving lower consumption & temperatures due to lower demand.
    Can try both. But with undervoltage you don't loose performance.

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    Ahh SORRY!!!
    Just fully understood you post!!!
    I would say take the smallest steps so youty know exactly when to stop.
    Lower the voltage by the smallest possible amount>restart> go yo OS and do something.
    Do this till you experience ANY instability then scale back and do some testing (like OCCT or Prime95) for a short time to establish general stability. 5-10min on the short tests and 12h and over for the long tests.
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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    try to find the cheapest ASROCK H61MV-ITX (lowest price i've seen was £40) and you got yourself a good cheap mini-itx board, its really good for your money if you add i5-3330 with it

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    Despite the size, that thing would be still a beast, and after a bit of tinkering a LEAN toned beast on diet (due to hopefully heavy optimization).

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    I've been looking around even more, have 'possibly' widened my search to m-atx as the Fractal 1000 case may be small enough, looks nice enough (not that it really matters now-a-days to me - although I did love my Lian Li PC7)

    http://www.scan.co.uk/products/fract...et-fan-w-o-psu

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    I'm intrigued - what are your other component choices, particularly graphics card? If you're looking for gaming on a budget it's hard to go wrong with an A10 6700 or 6800k (although there are less "good" FM2 mini-itx boards available)...

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    I'm intrigued - what are your other component choices, particularly graphics card? If you're looking for gaming on a budget it's hard to go wrong with an A10 6700 or 6800k (although there are less "good" FM2 mini-itx boards available)...
    Perhaps vs. an i5, but A10/i3 prices are fairly comparable, coupled with the fact that it really needs fast ram it might be swings and roundabouts. Suppose it depends on budget though, right down the bottom end, A10 vs i3 +£50 GPU makes a lot more sense.

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    Re: Any recommendations for a Mini ITX board?

    Quote Originally Posted by herulach View Post
    Perhaps vs. an i5, but A10/i3 prices are fairly comparable, coupled with the fact that it really needs fast ram it might be swings and roundabouts. Suppose it depends on budget though, right down the bottom end, A10 vs i3 +£50 GPU makes a lot more sense.
    1866MHZ and faster RAM can be often had for similar prices to 1600MHZ stuff ATM.

    TBH,an Athlon II X4 760K and a HD7730 GDDR5 makes more sense than spending the extra on a Core i3 and a similar GPU I suppose.

    Bagnaj97 uses one for his Steam Box/LAN rig with an HD7770.

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