Need an Extremely Small and Portable Gaming System
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@scottalanmiller Should do just fine. My personal bet is that you'll run out of CPU before you run out of graphics card. That's a mighty little i5 but it's still only dual core 15watt.
http://ark.intel.com/products/85212/Intel-Core-i5-5200U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-2_70-GHz
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It does have HT though, that's something. I was surprised by them going with a dual core CPU rather than a quad. But a lot of games just don't leverage the threads well.
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That is a very recent i5, launched just a few months ago.
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$281 recommended price on the proc.
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@scottalanmiller I'll rephrase for clarity-
That's a mighty, but little i5
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Ah ha, okay. That makes more sense. It feels to me like it will be able to do the job, at least most of the time.
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@scottalanmiller absolutely! Just as I said, should do just fine
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The vast majority of our games are older, I don't play that many current ones. It'll be used far more for last generation games and older than for current ones. More BioShock, Skyrim, Fable Anniversary than stuff that is just now releasing. But I don't want to miss out on what is out now either.
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@scottalanmiller don't even begin Witcher3 unless you have a looooooooooot of time to kill. It makes Skyrim look brief and lacking in content.
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller don't even begin Witcher3 unless you have a looooooooooot of time to kill. It makes Skyrim look brief and lacking in content.
I've got Witcher 1 and Witcher 2 to get through first!
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I would definitely be interested to hear how that machine handles games - I'm similarly concerned with the overheating potential, but I suppose using SSD vs HDD might help out with that a bit.
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Zotac has a good track record on hardware, as far as I know. They make a lot of these really small type devices. It is a lot of heat that they have to get out of there, though.
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@WingCreative @scottalanmiller
I know I started the heat thing but I assumed (incorrectly) that it was a full fat i5, not the laptop skinny variety.
Overall the 15w from that plus maybe 120w from the 960... probably won't be as terrible as I thought.
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Side note: ask how they're cooling it (cpu/gpu/whatever else)
If they use crummy 80mm/120mm you can replace with nice sexy quiet ones from Noctua
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@scottalanmiller said:
It is $799 and has an Intel Core i5 dual core proc, nVidia 970 GPU. I'll have to add memory and an SSD, no big deal there. Has quad HDMI output which is overkill but pretty flexible.
Not bad. Super tiny for what it is.
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Yeah, the tiny is what is making me so interested. I can't overstake how important weight and space savings is.
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That's very small and attractive. From an aesthetic point of view, it's very nice.
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Here's the system I'd go with: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QcMTkL : $1276.16
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$800 and it doesn't come with RAM/HDD or OS? That must be a pretty pricey video card in there?
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Maingear also makes some really small gaming rigs, https://www.maingear.com/custom/sff/spark/index.php#
