Hi Everyone,
I'm building my first PC, hopefully at the end of this week and I was hoping to get some help with the spec - at the moment I'm looking at:
One of my main focuses (apart from it being fast) is making it as quiet as possible, but without watercooling. My current PC while slow (AMD 64 3700+, nVidia 6600GT) is very quiet and I'm hoping to keep this around the same noise level - if possible. Ideally I'd like to also OC the processor to 3.0-3.2GHz because it'll often be rendering massive projects and that sort of OC should give pretty significant time savings.
I'm not really sure on the motherboard/hdds, I only chose those because Samsung are supposed to be quiet and the Mobo had built in Wi-Fi to save having to buy a separate card. Also I'll either be replacing all/most of the stock fans with 120mm Nexus Real Silent or Noctua 800RPM - most likely the Nexus ones since they generally get reviewed as slightly quieter than the Noctua ones and they're less than half the price.
If anyone has any advice or opinions on what to change (or if I'm missing anything?
) that would be great, thanks in advance!
I'm building my first PC, hopefully at the end of this week and I was hoping to get some help with the spec - at the moment I'm looking at:
One of my main focuses (apart from it being fast) is making it as quiet as possible, but without watercooling. My current PC while slow (AMD 64 3700+, nVidia 6600GT) is very quiet and I'm hoping to keep this around the same noise level - if possible. Ideally I'd like to also OC the processor to 3.0-3.2GHz because it'll often be rendering massive projects and that sort of OC should give pretty significant time savings.
I'm not really sure on the motherboard/hdds, I only chose those because Samsung are supposed to be quiet and the Mobo had built in Wi-Fi to save having to buy a separate card. Also I'll either be replacing all/most of the stock fans with 120mm Nexus Real Silent or Noctua 800RPM - most likely the Nexus ones since they generally get reviewed as slightly quieter than the Noctua ones and they're less than half the price.
If anyone has any advice or opinions on what to change (or if I'm missing anything?
) that would be great, thanks in advance!