New Gaming Rig Build

[meansizzler]

OK, planning ahead, to many choices, ATX/MATX, just can't decide, specced up so many builds but here is my latest...

Silverstone SG03
Silverstone Nightjar 500W Passive PSU
2 * 120mm Noctua 1200RPM fans running at 5V, both front intake
Core 2 Duo E6400
Zalman CNPS 8000 running at 5V
Seagate 80GB 7200.1 SATA for Windows
Seagate 160GB 7200.2 for Games
2GB Ram
Graphics Card undecided?
Soundblaster sondcard?
TV Tuner?
Pioneer 109XLS

As you can see looking for a quiet/silent system

 

[meansizzler]

Hmm quiet gaming system is a hard one tbh. Any GFX card with some meat to it, will be noisy under load.
What do you want the tuner to be able to do, ie, do you want to have freeview, dual tuner etc? What mobo do you have, coz will the card be pci, or pci-e?

I have the TV Tuner already, thanks it PCI-E, also probably run XP on this, have vista but since it won't support true EAX then it's not gaming worthy.., I was thnking about the XFX ACS SIlent Edition cards, how quiet are they?...

 

[meansizzler]

the CNPS 8000 has got a bad review form silentpc, considering it weighs only 380g, don't think it is the best heatsink out there, have my eye on the Zalman 7500 but at 900g it will put some stress on the mobo...

 

[meansizzler]

ok updated the specs...

-Silverstone SG03
-Enermax Liberty 620W PSU with Acoutic 120MM fan replacement running at 7V
-2 * 120mm Noctua 1200RPM fans running at 5V, both front intake
-Core 2 Duo E6600
-Zalman CNPS 8000 running at 5V
-2 * Seagate 120GB 7200.2 SATA in RAID 0 mounted in Scythe Quiet Drive 2.5
-2GB Ram
-8800GTX mounted with Thermalright HR-03 and 92mm Acousticfan running at 7v
-Soundblaster sondcard
-Pioneer 109XLS DCD Writer