Efficient rig thoughts?

[scole of TSBT]

I'll keep my trusty GTX 750 Ti in that rig... sucker barely generates any heat

Love those GTX 750ti's. They run quite and as stated very cool.

The GTX 1050 and 1060 will supposedly be released in Q3. Neither GPU will have a PCIe power connector.

[zombie67]

Get yourself an i7 NUC.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...-overview.html

[c303a]

I'd try a I7 6700 without a video card. You can always add it if needed.

[John P. Myers]

Gigabyte Brix is a great choice. Can get up to 4 cores/8 threads with 128MB Iris Pro graphics (can crunch Collatz and such on the on-die graphics processor).

Most (if not all) models include VESA mounts so you can attach it to the back of your monitor. This way it takes up no desk/floor/shelf space at all

[zombie67]

Gigabyte Brix is a great choice. Can get up to 4 cores/8 threads with 128MB Iris Pro graphics (can crunch Collatz and such on the on-die graphics processor).

Have you checked out the new i7 NUC? Completely different form factor. Not sure what I think of it yet.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...-with-nuc.html

Anyway, a bit more expensive than the brix, but also a bit faster CPU.

[DrPop]

Wow! Those things are tiny. And to think I thought the Mini ITX rig I built for my bro a year ago was small. OK, I'll have to check into these, might be worth it not to mess with a build and just use what they have...strange to think that way, but kind of neat.

[zombie67]

An no 3.5 or 2.3 inch HD. The SSD is a stick of gum now.