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I've seen sites with windows keys for as little as £20, but that sounds WAY too good to be true. Could you link to a trustworthy one? While that motherboard looks cool AF imo, why did you pick that one over the one I originally posted? I've never really known the difference on motherboards aside from I/O to be honest. Thanks for the advice so far!

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor £287.99 @ Aria PC Motherboard MSI - X470 GAMING PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard £128.86 @ Amazon UK Memory Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory £129.98 @ CCL Computers Storage Samsung - 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive £112.74 @ Aria PC Case NZXT - H500i (White) ATX Mid Tower Case £99.98 @ Box Limited Power Supply EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply £85.47 @ Scan.co.uk Operating System Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit £82.97 @ Laptops Direct Other RX480 from current rig Purchased Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total £927.99 Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-11 12:12 GMT+0000 My processor (i5 3570k) seems to finally be dropping below minimum requirements for games and I think I'm getting CPU bound in others (civ 6 I'm looking at you), so I'm finally taking the plunge on a (mostly) new rig. Problem is I've been out of the game for a while, so a little ignorant of recent developments. Therefore, I come to seek help from you guys! I'm roughly targeting £1,000. This will be used primarily for gaming, while also being used for music production and light video editing. I'll be playing at 4k. I'll need a copy of Windows, but I already have all the other peripherals required. I'm pulling an RX480 8GB and probably a hard drive from my current rig, so that's why they're not in this build. There's a couple of things I'm unsure on though:-How good is the stock cooler? While I'm confident in its cooling ability, how noisy is it?-How much do speed and latency affect memory of the same capacity? Should I just go for the cheapest sticks from a reputable manufacturer?-Is the PSU sufficient to run this? At most, I could see myself adding a couple hard drives down the line, but probably won't ever mess with a second GPU.

My favourite part was when you got to the (lack of) side buttons. Was like "holy carp they actually listen to me!". Shame about that speaker though

All of the fans are the stock fans that came with the case, apart from the HSF that came with the processor and the stock cooler on the GPU. Like I said though, the case fans are turned off at idle.

I have a 3570k and a Sapphire 4870 in an NZXT Phantom 410. All the fans are stock. However, even at idle, I can hear the fans over my mechanical keyboard. I use the software from my motherboard to turn the case fans off at lower temperatures. Is the intel stock HSF really that loud? If the HSF is the culprit, are there any cheap (ideally <£30) coolers that you would recommend? Semi related question: My GPU is at 55-56c at idle. Is this normal? MSI Afterburner says the fans are at about 23%