You're allowed to live,I just disagree with it.Originally Posted by Rart
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You're allowed to live,I just disagree with it.
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All of you bitches are worrying too much about noise. Try to keep your cpu temps within 25 °C of room temp without having to spend a lot of money and cutting a hole in your case. Everything makes noise, refrigerators, air conditioners, shitty background programming that the significant other watches, and even the 12-year-old girl whose cries for help have been insulated by layers of duct tape can still make a ruckus.
Get passionate about something else besides noise reduction. Are you going to spend the rest of your lives sound proofing everything? Spend some time in the quietest room on earth, where you can listen to all the movements in your body, then tell me about your noise issues. On second thought, it would still be boring, so cancel that reservation.
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P.S. I didn't actually read most of it, so if I am by chance off context, get in line for a lick of my balls. Yeah, my balls, my floppy, noisy balls.
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It's a personal preference really but noise wasn't one of the main reason I advocate for air cooling over cheap liquid cooling. After all most coolers will pretty much sound the same if you attach a good solid fan to it rather than a shitty one more concerned with flashy LEDs and having the highest max rpm (ie the type Idol would buy).
I think it's certainly worth keeping in mind for GPUs though as they can produce a lot more heat. Buy a reference design AMD 290 or 290X and you'll have your own personal blow dryer with you everytime you turn on your computer.
an alchemist?
Raise your hand if you object to being blown.
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I don't think Intel makes a 7670. Do you mean the i5-4670K? If so, I'd definitely support the decision to grab that CPU with the idea of gaming in mind. It's a beast.
If the PC will genuinely be used primarily for internets and gaming, 8GB is likely still enough RAM, though you'll obviously want/need newer sticks for the motherboard you choose. I chose to go with 32 gigs as I use PS CS6 and Premiere Pro a lot and there's a pretty solid benefit there. If you don't regularly run something that would utilize the additional RAM, skip it. You can also go back and buy another 8GB stick later on if you feel your needs have changed.
As for cases, the Cosmos 2 seems like the definition of overkill. I guess if you just like it then fair enough, but otherwise why get a case that can hold thirteen hard drives and 4-way SLI? Not to mention it's size alone. That Level 10 case looks like a dusting nightmare.
I love the Fractal R4 case I picked. My runner-up was the Corsair 550D. I even gave serious consideration to the Silverstone FT03. I suppose a lot of what you decide on these days depends on whether you care about cable management or not. It was important to me but if you don't care at all, then I'd prob just reuse the case you already have. After you take everything out of it, take it outside and give it a real good dusting with some wet rags and compressed air and shine it up again before you start putting new parts back in.
The SSD will almost certainly be the most noticeable change. Sometimes when I install small apps and such, I sit and wait for them to show up on the screen after double clicking them, only to realize a few moments later that they installed so fast, I literally didn't even see anything on the screen. Excellent technology. I patiently watched Slickdeals.net for a few weeks until I saw a price I liked on the Samsung EVO. Great drive.
As stated, I grabbed the EVGA 760GTX Superclocked card. I thought it was the best bang for the buck but if you're going to be doing some considerable gaming you may end up going a bit better than that.
There's a gillion motherboards to choose from. If you're focused on gaming I'd say any of the Z77 or Z87 boards would be a good fit. They have a wide range of prices so you'll have to look at what you want. The Sabertooth I purchased certainly has more than what I needed but I also really liked the look of it so I was willing to shill out a bit more than I prob should have. I'm very happy with it tho and the BIOS on it is exceptional.
As for the H100i, I'm ...sorta happy with it. It does it's job really well and that's the important part. It makes more noise than I'd like but it isn't quite what I'd call "loud". It likes to rev up for like 1 sec every few minutes or so for seemingly no apparent reason. It's a fairly popular thing to swap out the fans with Noctua fans to silence it, but I'm not ready to let go of my all black interior just yet. Unless you're planning to overclock or just want the look of the H100i, the stock cooler should be OK. I knew I'd be overclocking and that's why I went with it. I'm at 4.5GHz and staying very cool.
Last edited by Skiz; 05-16-2014 at 09:41 PM.
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The Scythe Slipstreams are pretty solid fans that are completely black.
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There's a few different choices out there that I've found. Some quite pricey. Scythe Gentle Typhoons, (you also mentioned the Slipstreams which I hadn't seen before, so thanks) Noiseblocker eLoops, Noctua NF, GELID Solutions. The Antec TrueQuiet Pro 120 Low is supposed to be the best but I don't think they attach the right way to work with the H100i. Noctua is also supposed to have a line of black fans sometime here in Q1, so I'm being patient for those.The Scythe Slipstreams are pretty solid fans that are completely black.
Last edited by Skiz; 01-15-2014 at 04:24 AM.
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I could blame the mistake on my own stupidity but we both know that it's really the nerd's fault for not giving tech things proper normal names like Harold and Esmeralda.
Anyway please ignore my flip answers and know that everyone with the obvious exclusion of Rart , has my sincere thanks.
Now please forgive me as I'm just going to ignore all advise sage or rart-like and just get two of anything that is really expensive and pray to the God of mammon that it's fits together and/or works.
Although let's be real and I will be well satisfied if it simply looks cool and impresses people who don't know anything.
I'm also going to attach baseball cards to the fins of the fans like you do on the spokes of a bike wheel so I can dream I'm riding an Indian motorcycle and not having a conversation on Twitter with a 12 year old who's pretending to be 27.
I assume this is what Steve McQueen would do in the same situation.
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