Mini-ITX PC Build Help

  • I am looking into converting my or building a whole new PC into more of a smaller form factor since I've recently been going to lan parties and at my friend's house playing games. It's a big hassle to come back from school and walk or bike back to my house and drag a mid tower 5 blocks to my friends house. So the PC needs to fit these requirements. Thanks for replying and helping. 
  • $1500 or less
  • Small enough to either fit in my backpack or carry around 
  • Can fit an AIO 120mm or 140mm
  • Good Temps 30-70 degrees celsius
  • Doesn't need to fit a full-size GPU
  • Doesn't need to able to store a hard drive, I have a NAS. This is mainly for games.
Cases I am looking at:
  • Cooler Master Elite 110
  • Lian Li PCTU100 or TU200 or basically an ITX by Lian Li that aren't too big
  • Thermaltake Core V1

Excluding these cases: (They're a little too big, feel free to argue against this)

  • Corsair 250D 
  • Cooler Master Elite 120, 130
  • Bitfenix Prodigy
  • EVGA Hadron
  • Bitfenix Collusus
  • Bitfenix Phenom

Note: Please do not include laptops

Do you want a completely new rig, or use components from your current rig and downsize?

EVGA Hadron is pretty small - probably smaller than the Thermaltake Core V1.

Either way is fine, I would like to take my hard drive and put it in the build

Well, this isn't the most powerful gaming system, as you can probably tell by the budget.  I don't suggest overclocking in an enclosure this small, so I haven't put in an AIO in this system.  This should give you pretty respectable performance, especially for the size.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Hd9Zqs

Thanks!

Just get a 4690k its not that much more expensive

Well, it's about $40 more, depending on where you get it.

I'd take an Xeon E3-1231 V3 over the 4690k in this situation.

Well some of the low profile noctua coolers can overclock ie. u12s

that isn't a low profile cooler and definitely won't fit in a Elite 110...

this is

Noctua NH-C12P SE14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/noctua-cpu-cooler-nhc12pse14