Quiet gaming system build

BorisTheBlade

BorisTheBlade

BorisTheBlade

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HI guys, I'm about to purchase the components for my future rig that has an emphasis on running quietly. I'm looking to get the budget under £1000 and may well have to install ubuntu until I have more money to get win 8.1 unless I can find a way to instal my win 7 upgrade onto it. I had win vista oem and then upped with win 7 retail so not sure... Anyhow, I would dearly appreciate it if you could tell me of any obvious flaws/bottlenecks or more quiet/cheaper/faster (in that order of importance) alternatives to my rig plan:

4690k oc to 4.2ghz
Noctua u14s heatsink and cooler http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-000-ND
600w strider PLUS gold PSU http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-359-SV
AS Rock Extreme 4 z97 mobo http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-132-AK
Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 (low noise option) Tower
Samsung Evo 850 250gb SSD
HyperX 16gb Dual Channel 1866mhz Ram
EVGA GTX 960 SSC

Many thanks in advance
 
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Hi and welcome.

Do you have £1000 just for the tower? if you do you can do better,

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infin8 Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **WorldWide Exclusive** £281.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£12 Saving** £277.98
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £78.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £66.98
1 x Noctua NH-U14S Ultra-Quiet Slim CPU Cooler with NF-A15 Fan £62.99
1 x Antec P100 Mid Tower Silenced Computing Case £62.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £55.99
Total : £947.89 (includes shipping : ).

 
Harl0 said:
I would change your heatsink.

Check out the Coolermaster 212 Evo
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-CM
OR
If you feel like splashing out on arguably the best air cooler, the Noctua NH-D14
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-011-NC

I've recently installed the 212 Evo, very pleased indeed. Virtually silent even under heavy load.
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I did consider that one but it only houses 120mm fans, has to be 140mm minimum for me. I want to keep the fan on lower speed setting to keep noise to a minimum. Splashing out extra money is far better than the noisier alternative! The dual fan one only seemed to get slightly better results in benchmark comparisons with a fair bit more noise so that's what had me leaning towards to pricey u14.


stulid said:
Hi and welcome.

Do you have £1000 just for the tower? if you do you can do better,

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infin8 Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **WorldWide Exclusive** £281.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£12 Saving** £277.98
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £78.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £66.98
1 x Noctua NH-U14S Ultra-Quiet Slim CPU Cooler with NF-A15 Fan £62.99
1 x Antec P100 Mid Tower Silenced Computing Case £62.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £55.99
Total : £947.89 (includes shipping : ).

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Aha - I did consider the 970 but I chose the 960 due to it running much cooler and quieter with the lower power draw.

I also was close to purchasing the antec case but it comes with 2 x 120mm fans that would produce more noise for the same amount of airflow as the 140mm fans in the nanoxia running at far lower speeds...

The golden green is also something I was looking at, is it better than the strider?

I thought I would need 16gb ram, is that overkill then?

I'm gonna stick with the evo 850 due to the far higher speeds in benchmark tests across the board! :D Worth the extra £20 to have a snappier system for me.

Thanks for the input!
 
The Antec case is "silenced" so has quiet fans (with speed adjusters) and sound dampening to quiet it down.

The Golden Green is a good PSU, the Silverstone I would have no problems using myself, it's decent.

For just gaming 8GB is plenty.
 
I'm drowning in review and comparisons... You have me seriously considering the 970 now but I can't seem to find out how the noise it makes compares with the 960 and whether it's worth putting in a hotter component that draws 25 extra watts
 
I can attest to the 970 being very quiet ( my msi was ).

The main noise is from the power supply i have found assuming you use a fan controller for case fans.

I have always had the most noise from the psu in my builds.
 
So your feedback informed my build very well guys, my gratitude! The parts I ended up going with were:

Fractal Define XL R2 Titanium Case
Silverstone Strider Essential Gold - 600W
KFA2 GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infin8 Black Edition" 4096MB
Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle
Noctua d14 heatsink
Kingston HyperX Savage Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual
Samsung Evo 850 250gb SDD
1 TB WD Green HDD
Win 8.1 64 bit OEM

Saved money on the mobo bundle, spent a fair bit more on the graphics card, a few quid more on the better dual fan Noctua cooler and the same amount on the Fractal case. I bought 70% of the build from OC but sadly had to get the case and a few other bits elsewhere as OCUK didn't stock the ones I wanted, I shant say where but would have preferred to have got it all from OC.
 
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