Silent i5 Build Spec

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Bought a Saphire HD5770 over xmas after a little bit of research and it looks great on my new 32" Samsung B650 but my CPU is maxing out so lo0king to upgrade.

It's got to be quiet (been lurking the Silent PC Review forums) and will be doing a bit of gaming and music production to push it and general browsing and HTPC use.

Budget is about £1000 (saving some would be good), not goin to overclock and i need to buy Win7 64bit in with that too.

What do you guys think of this?-



Not sure on the RAM, just picked a decent brand. Might get 8GB.

Have a Sythe Ninja for a cooler if i can get a 1156 adaptor and got a couple of drives to swap in from current machine.

Really want the SSD for performance.

is there an i7 vs i5 debate to have?!!

 

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thanks will read some more mobo reviews. Think I want ASUS as have had to rma a gygabyte in the past. will look at the one for £108, dont suppose it matters if i'm not going to OC or use 2 GFX cards.

The Corsair is modular too

 

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unfortunately i didnt get the vapor x just the HD but it has a "stand up" cooler rather than a full cover, i think the fan is bigger which reduced noise. I leave it on auto which runs at 30% and i cant hear it over the PSU which is the noisiest part of current setup.
The gfx card gets noisy when u ramp it over 40% but i've hammered it and it hasn't ever got to that point during a game (maybe i'm doing something wrong!)

I bought a 3rd party fan for the Ninja and a Zalman fan controller and drop the rpm to about 600. The temps are fine but I up it in the summer and when gaming. (C2D E6400 no overclock). I'll do the same on the i5

Will consider replacing new case fans and applying controllers but my mate has same case and it's so solid it should drop the noise to tolerable levels. I'm only looking for comparative silence when watching films, not like i'll sleep next to it!

Have a Sonata II case and it rattled and resonated really badly so i suspended my HDDs on elastic as recommended on SPCR and it sorted the issue right out.