next to silent build revision....about press the "button"

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case choice - small - good dust filtering was a toss up between that and the antect solo II, fractal r3

was gonna go i7 but decided since I was getting a MB with one click over clocking might aswell get the i5 and go for a 4.5 /4.8 oc with that cooler
should be do-able right?

I read this forum and the chip reviews and by popularity seems to be the
"bang for buck" chip

is it worth swapping stock antec fans for typhoons to shave some noise down???

got a ATI 5450 gonna use for graphics........can upgrade later if needed

HD's & DVD/CD/BR already got

if it looks ok im just gonna go for it coz so much choice can chop and change all day long but I think I'm on the right mark now
thanks
 
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was gonna go i7 but decided since I was getting a MB with one click over clocking might aswell get the i5 and go for a 4.5 /4.8 oc with that cooler
should be do-able right?
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Yep, the one click overclocking will give you 4.2GHz I believe, so for higher you will have to do it manually, that isnt difficult.

I read this forum and the chip reviews and by popularity seems to be the
"bang for buck" chip
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Yep.

HD's & DVD/CD/BR already got
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They are all SATA?
 
750W power supply is rather massive overkill... With a 5450 GPU, you could probably fit it all on a 350. Also I believe the 2500K's onboard graphics is about as good as a 5450?

But you don't sound very budget constrained, and it does give you room for any sensible single or dual GPU setup in future :)

(What do you want this PC to do, by the way? It looks like a good solid workstation, but won't play BF3 or Skyrim very well with that graphics card...)
 
Actually , I mistaken that board, the Asrock has "Turbo50" this gives you the choice of 4GHZ, 4.2Ghz, 4.4Ghz, 4.6Ghz, 4.8Ghz in the BIOS (this is for a i5 2500K, I dont know if it changes for a i7), it will sort all the settings out for you, but you still need to check for stability like any other overclock.

If you are using VM, then Hyperthreading supplied by a i7 maybe useful to you - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=287
 
ah cool just what I wanted to hear :-) do think HT is a deal breaker? i5 on a stable 4.5 should make toast of most things even VM's? gonna stick with 3tb hitachi to benefit from 6 gps
 
Mechanical harddrives dont even use all of a SATAII interface, they just arent fast enough, the only thing that needs 6GB/s is a modern SSD.
 
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Near silent build with a sealed water cooled unit does not compute. High performance means high noise.

Consider a large air cooler instead with fans at <700rpm.
 
Provided the fan stays slow like in your mini review then I suppose it could be relatively quiet. Still the pump creates additional noise while it's spinning at 3000rpm. Anything spinning that fast is making noise.

Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1850 are NOT quiet. You'd need to undervolt considerably.

Maybe it's just some people's definition of silent or near to silent is different to others.
 
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