Spec me a £1500 (ish) gaming PC that is quiet please

implosiveturnip · 20 Jul 2015 at 16:14

YOUR BASKET
1 x Palit GeForce GTX 980Ti Super Jetstream 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (NE5X98TH15JB-2000J) £529.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £259.99
1 x Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e Gen3 8Gbps x 4 Solid State Drive (MZHPV256HDGL-00000) £129.95
1 x Seasonic X-Series 750w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £126.95
1 x MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £89.99
1 x CableMod SE-Series KM3, XM2, XP2/3, FL2, XFX Cable Kit - Black / White £69.95
1 x Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 CPU Cooler £65.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX321C11T3K2/8) £59.99
1 x NZXT Source 340 Midi-Tower Case- Black Window £59.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Premium Modding LED Strip - Connect White 60cm £25.99
2 x Noctua NF-P14s REDUX PWM 1200RPM 140mm Quiet Case Fan £13.49 (£26.98)
Total : £1,462.25 (includes shipping : £13.75 Ex.VAT).

To be fair, you could get essentially the same performing build for around £300 less than what I've specced. I just wanted to spec a pretty build

To save cash, drop to the i5 4690k (don't *need* an i7 for gaming), get a standard SSD (not an m.2, though that particular drive is silly fast), Drop the LEDs and the sleeved PSU cables, move to a cheaper PSU (plenty of viable options around the £60 mark), get a smaller and cheaper cooler (prolimatech 81?), drop down to a more budget motherboard and go for cheaper case fans.

avoidconfusion · 20 Jul 2015 at 17:23

Love the colours on that board! Colours aside is it a good performer? I think I want the Gigabyte G1 980ti because I heard it is so quiet even under heavy load.

Would love a combo of white and ice blue in general!

implosiveturnip · 20 Jul 2015 at 18:52

The palit is cheaper, quieter and performs within a couple of fps of the G1. I can speak first-hand on the quietness of the Palit- I'm running one in my main rig and even at full load with a moderate overclock, it's practically inaudible.

I could try a blue and white spec lol, my old bitfenix rig was blue and white, looked classy.

avoidconfusion · 20 Jul 2015 at 19:05

Would the Palit fit into that case though? Also what is Palits support like?

implosiveturnip · 20 Jul 2015 at 20:08

It should fit in without issue. Here's my attempt at a blue and white build. Bear in mind the cooler comes with dye for the fluid, so it wouldn't be red as it is in the image.

I have no idea what palit's support is like as I've never used them, but I noticed they do tend to offer longer warranties than other manufacturers. I know their reference cooled cards come with a 5 year warranty - I think the super jetstream comes with 3 years

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 980Ti "Hall of Fame 8 Pack Approved Edition" 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £575.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £179.99
1 x ASRock Z97 Extreme6 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £142.99
1 x Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e Gen3 8Gbps x 4 Solid State Drive (MZHPV256HDGL-00000) £139.99
1 x NZXT Noctis 450 White Full Tower Chassis £109.99
1 x BeQuiet Straight Power 10 700W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £96.95
1 x CableMod B-Series SP 10-CM Cable Kit - Blue £69.95
1 x Raijintek Triton AIO Water Cooling Solution £62.95
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £55.99
Total : £1,452.49 (includes shipping : £14.75 Ex.VAT).

avoidconfusion · 20 Jul 2015 at 20:14

Nice! I dont mind the silver on the Palit so would probably still go for that. I prefer the H440 case though!

implosiveturnip · 20 Jul 2015 at 21:27

go for it, everything should fit really. The noctis is just a h440 with a different skin if you will.

avoidconfusion · 20 Jul 2015 at 21:38

Think I also prefer the white Motherboard haha

dacads · 21 Jul 2015 at 17:00

How about this?

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 980Ti "Hall of Fame 8 Pack Approved Edition" 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £575.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e Gen3 8Gbps x 4 Solid State Drive (MZHPV256HDGL-00000) £139.99
1 x MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £89.99
1 x NZXT H440 Midi - Tower Case - White £89.99
1 x XFX XTR 750W '80 Plus Gold' Fully Modular Power Supply £79.99
1 x Avexir "Sabranco" Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit - White Light £67.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £58.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn White CPU Cooler £39.95
Total : £1,429.37 (includes shipping : £13.75 Ex.VAT).

Another case you can consider is the Fractal Design R5, which also comes in black or white.

P.s What are you going to do with your current PC? Selling it could be an option so you can at least re-coup some money, it's not a bad build after all.

avoidconfusion · 21 Jul 2015 at 17:34

Cheers mate!!

I will definitely be selling my current PC, either as a whole or in parts... still undecided...

Would it make sense to wait for Skylake before I order by the way?

dacads · 21 Jul 2015 at 17:38

Might as well as it's only a few weeks away, not that it's going to offer much of an improvement anyway, but better to buy the latest tech right

avoidconfusion · 21 Jul 2015 at 22:10

By the way, when you order a system and ask OC to build it, do they do the cabling really nicely and can you also ask them to do some "modding" like switch different coloured PSU cables in etc?