we're building Mike a gaming PC (recycled thread)

[noiseredux]

The computer case evga released last year or maybe it was earlier this year. It looks awesome. Evga hadron.

expensive as heck though, eh?

[isiolia]

Yes. It does include a PSU though, as it doesn't use a standard ATX sized one.

Still expensive.

[aaron]

i have a copy of Win 7 Home with a valid key i think.

[Aramonde]

He thinks Brad was making a half joke and it sorta took off as a possible real maybe thing and he's just sitting back thinking, "...wait, am I getting a gaming pc out of this?"

Didn't know Noises name was Brad

[mjmjr25]

It's actually Bart, well, Bartholomew, but he goes by Brad.

[flex wood]

Yes. It does include a PSU though, as it doesn't use a standard ATX sized one.

Still expensive.

Eh I don't think it's really that expensive since the PSU is gold plus rated. Pretty much every other matx or itx gaming case is going to run you $100 on it's own and getting a decent power supply that's even bronze rated is going probably going to end up costing more.

While we are talking cases, you guys got any suggestions? I've been looking at the bitfenix prodigies, corsair 350d (windowed of course), and that evga. I want something I can fit a full gpu into and be smaller then the corsair 500r.

[mjmjr25]

I have a Lenovo 520s, stock (4gb, 500hdd, black and silver case, 4 usb ports), would it be easy to just upgrade this - it is infected w/Windows 8 presently:

[isiolia]

Eh I don't think it's really that expensive since the PSU is gold plus rated. Pretty much every other matx or itx gaming case is going to run you $100 on it's own and getting a decent power supply that's even bronze rated is going probably going to end up costing more.

While we are talking cases, you guys got any suggestions? I've been looking at the bitfenix prodigies, corsair 350d (windowed of course), and that evga. I want something I can fit a full gpu into and be smaller then the corsair 500r.

Well, eVGA's standard ATX 500W gold rated PSU is $49.99, so it's basically $100 for the case. A lot of the popular models of matx/itx cases are around that, so it's similar. There are cheaper cases around though (Thermaltake Urban S1 for instance) that should be fine for a more budget build.

Main thing that'd make me leery about the eVGA is less the cost and more that the PSU is odd for a desktop. It may not be proprietary per se (likely a U1 server size), but it's still kind of odd to replace, and most are not going to be quiet.

I don't have hands-on with any of those size cases though. I have a Raven RV02...it is anything but small.

I have a Lenovo 520s, stock (4gb, 500hdd, black and silver case, 4 usb ports), would it be easy to just upgrade this - it is infected w/Windows 8 presently:

Eh, Windows 8 isn't all that bad, particularly post-8.1. Just have to ignore the Modern UI as much as possible

I think for the kind of stuff that's being looked at, it'd be possible to gut that and reuse parts, but not most of the core components. So it'd just cripple an otherwise working, decently modern machine.

Personally, I'd say to leave that one intact. While it's still in beta, Steam is integrating in-home streaming (also what the low end Steam Machines are supposed to do).
That machine would likely be a fine candidate for a streaming client, and let you get even more use out of a more capable gaming rig.

[flex wood]

Eh I don't think it's really that expensive since the PSU is gold plus rated. Pretty much every other matx or itx gaming case is going to run you $100 on it's own and getting a decent power supply that's even bronze rated is going probably going to end up costing more.

While we are talking cases, you guys got any suggestions? I've been looking at the bitfenix prodigies, corsair 350d (windowed of course), and that evga. I want something I can fit a full gpu into and be smaller then the corsair 500r.

Well, eVGA's standard ATX 500W gold rated PSU is $49.99, so it's basically $100 for the case. A lot of the popular models of matx/itx cases are around that, so it's similar. There are cheaper cases around though (Thermaltake Urban S1 for instance) that should be fine for a more budget build.

Main thing that'd make me leery about the eVGA is less the cost and more that the PSU is odd for a desktop. It may not be proprietary per se (likely a U1 server size), but it's still kind of odd to replace, and most are not going to be quiet.

I don't have hands-on with any of those size cases though. I have a Raven RV02...it is anything but small.

Yea I think I'm starting lean towards the windowed 350d, although if space wasn't an issue I would jump on the corsair 760t. That thing looks amazing, I'm going to cross my fingers and hope they release a smaller version of it. I don't plan on rebuilding until winter/fall but I'd like to get things figured out beforehand some what. I plan on swapping to a 780 from my 280x, the price should hopefully drop on the 780's to somewhere in the 400's and I got the extended warranty on my 280x at microcenter so I can get $350 back for it for another year and a half. I want to keep it simple with a AIO water cooler for the cpu and a fully modular psu.

[aaron]

I have a Lenovo 520s, stock (4gb, 500hdd, black and silver case, 4 usb ports), would it be easy to just upgrade this - it is infected w/Windows 8 presently:

update your graphics card and boost your ram and it'll do fine for quite some time, especially with in-home streaming coming down the pipeline.