Building a smaller gaming computer

[trigun500]

I would like to make a smaller gaming PC to meet my LAN needs. I travel a lot for work but I hate Laptops with a passion.

This is what I have:

Case:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16811144161

Mobo:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813128078

Graphics:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814500006

CPU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115027

RAM:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820227298

HD:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822152102

Colling:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835128015

Please let me know if this is all going to fit in the case or not. Am I putting too much in the comupter? I've never build a PC usign a micro case so any help would be great!

 

[DSF]

All of that in a lanbox with water cooling? I'm skeptical. I don't see any reason to waste the money on a quad core anyway. Since it looks like you're planning to overclock, that's a lot of heat to exhaust from a tiny case like that.

If you do go with the quad core, DDR2-800 will overclock it just fine.

 

[MarcVenice]

You should check the cases and cooling forum. There's one guy there with a pretty powerfull, yet small build. mATX is the way to go obviously. I'd get a e8400, it will dump less heat in your case then the q6700. The Samsung spinpoint ain't bad, should run pretty cool. Videocardwise I'd get a HD4850, people might say it runs hot, but it's ill defined. The fan runs slow, thus the gpu runs hot, but the amount of heat dumped into your case won't be that different between a 8800gt and a HD4850. So buy a HD4850 instead. The ram, you can get some g.skill ddr2 1000mhz for less money, no rebates involved.

Cooling, if you ask what people think about it in the cases and cooling forum, half the people will burn you down for it, the other half will just laugh. Don't buy crap like that. You either spend a lot less on aircooling, which is also easier to carry around, or you spend a WEE bit more to get some custom parts that will spank that gigabyte setup to hell and back. But I doubt watercooling is a good idea for a setup that will be moved alot.

 

[DaveSimmons]

The Qpack2 is supposed to have an improved layout and fit longer cards but this is second-hand info I haven't veriied. Search "qpack2" at newegg for the cases.

People claim the QPack supplied PSU is garbage, so you might want to add a Seasonic or Coarsair PSU to your list.

Dual-core makes much more sense for at least the next couple of years, especially when trying to cool a mATX case. Put the $110 towards the PSU and a better video card.

Also, if you get an E8400 or E8500 you can run at stock and use the supplied HSF since they're already 3+ GHz. My E8400 is very quiet with the intel HSF.

Air cooling should be fine.

If you only need 640 GB the WD 2-platter drive is fast and quiet.