Cheap, quiet ITX PC for Plex/light gaming needed

[gopher1369]

Hello all,

Currently using a Gigabyte Brix as a Plex server, but looking to replace it with something a little more capable so it can also double up as a secondary gaming PC (nothing strenuous, able to play MMOs and RTS games), I have some ideas already, but wanted to see if anyone has any better suggestions.

Requirements are:

Small, as it's sat on a cramped desk.
Quiet, it's in our bedroom so has to be inaudible so we can sleep with it on
Efficient/low power, as it's on 24/7

So far I've come up with:
Antec ISK 110 case
Asus H110I-PLUS D3 motherboard (it's very cheap here in the UK)
Intel Pentium G4400
Noctua NH-L9i CPU cooler
4Gb DDR3 1600, whatever is cheapest.

Drives (1Tb Hdd and 128Gb SSD) and OS will be recycled from the Brix. Does this sound good, or does anyone have any better suggestions?

 

[Mattz982]

Do you wanna buy it or build it?

 

[sadams04]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor (£85.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (£83.50 @ More Computers)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£35.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For £0.00)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For £0.00)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card (£146.95 @ Aria PC)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case (£33.74 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£35.46 @ More Computers)
Total: £421.62

 

[gopher1369]

Do you wanna buy it or build it?

Definitely build.

@ Sadams04 thanks for taking the time to read, but your build is not quite what I'm looking for. I asked for low power/efficient, your list is definitely not that. Although that is a good price on an i3, I'll definitely take a look at that.

FYI I already bought the ISK110 case, found one cheap (£23) on Ebay. Now I can't decide on whether to go with Kaveri, Haswell or Skylake.

 

[Mattz982]

I think this should handle it:

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/M4jkMp
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/M4jkMp/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor (£51.36 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i 57.5 CFM CPU Cooler (£25.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus H81I-PLUS Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (£49.99 @ Novatech)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£17.63 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: OCZ Trion 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£62.85 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Toshiba 1TB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.96 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £245.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-14 17:01 BST+0100

That pentium could probably overclock too, but I don't see the point in it really for Plex