Major system upgrade need ideas - help!

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Hey guys, I would be really grateful for your opinion on a system build.

My current computer is destroying itself and is long due an upgrade.

My main requirements are being powerful enough for gaming, good sound and being as silent as possible.

Ive never built a system from scratch but have done a bit of upgrading, I recently installed a high end 850w power supply (i bought a corsair one that said it was quiet :/) and have a Nvidea 560ti (thinking just getting a second in sli would cut it for a year or 2?)

As i would say they are good to go, all I need is a good motherboard, CPU, RAM, SSD, with a normal hardrive aswell, a sexy case and a relatively good sound card.

Looking at spending about 500-700 on just those bits so any recommendations would be great! (may be able to push higher if the gains are worth it)

I also stumbled accross an asus motherboard that you can control with your phone/tablet with an app? Anyone have any experience of this as I use my computer for music A LOT and this would be really useful.

Thank you in advance you lovely people! I look forward to seeing some great build suggestions.
 
But can you get an air cooled system near silent? my current build sounds like a typhoon jet taking off, its ridiculous! What would be a good silent case/ case fans/ cpu fan?

Im thinking of getting an i5 bundle with motherboard and cooler around the £400 mark (great tip about next chips, thanks!) not too sure i would want second hand considering the build will be worth over £1k (probably snobery on my behalf!)
 
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