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I don't have too many experiances with them. I will be building two into my project phantom build for the rad they go from 800-2000rpm i think. generally i think nzxt has well performing products, however as mentioned my experiance is limited.

would nzxt's fans fit your build? the white ones i mean. Otherwise if black in black is ok, maybe the aerocool shark, at 1500rpm they have 96 cmf iirc (the 140mm version), at ~30db they aren't too Quiet, yet at 7v they are meant to be around 16db with 50cmf.

Sitrep. Well I recieved 3 more fans yesterday. (Two more are cancelled as they would take ages to come). And the extra four black sata 3 cables are in the mail, just like the bluray burner and a second mx100 512gb for raid. I can't really start building till sunday when a friend has time. if I'm honest I was hoping for a tiny bit more enthusiasm, I know it's not the flashiest build, But Ok.

Yeah it's not the perfect build, hope you like it more when it's completed

Well so far so good, everything that i received seems to be in one piece. I'm still waiting for a few parts, some more fans etc. first off I need to do a test run to see if everything works, then will come the actual building

Main Components: CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4,0 GHz (Devils Canyon) CPU Cooler: NZXT KRAKEN X61 AIO LC 280mm MB: ASUS Z97-Pro Wi-Fi, Intel Z97 RAM: Team Group Dark Series Grey, DDR3-2400, CL11 4x8GB SSD: Crucial MX100 2,5 Zoll SSD, SATA 6G - 512GB HDD: 4x6TB WD Caviar Green PSU: Antec EarthWatts EA-650, 80 PLUS Platinum CASE: NZXT Phantom 530 Midi-Tower – Black FAN: 8x Aerocool Shark Black Edition Fan 140mm Black (Of which, in all likely hood only 7 will be used) 3x Aerocool Shark Black Edition FAN 120mm Black (Of which 2 will be used for the case) 1x NZXT 200mm White 2x NZXT 140mm White (2000rpm version comes with the X61, Will most likley not be used) 1x NZXT 140mm White (1200rpm version comes with the case, will most likely not be used) ODD: ASUS BC-12D2HT 5,25 Zoll SATA Blu-ray OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit SP1 GPU: N/A (for now) Sponsors: My Own Wallet The idea behind the Build The idea has been around for quite a while. Sadly, I already couldn't really put together my last build myself, due to my dwindling fine motor skills and I see no reason why I would expect it to be any different this time around. As a result there of I didn't spend too much time thinking about computers for a while. However when the SFR was revalued I realised that the time was right. Thanks to my truly shite fine motor skills, I will be relying on my close relatives and friends to help me doing the actual building of the system. I know what needs to be done I began fiddling with my first computer when I was 10 and by now I'm 23, but sadly my body is really letting me down so as previously mentioned I will be relying on some help for the actual building of the rig. What I'll be using it for, is mainly as a multimedia center together with a 100hz 46” Samsung LED TV. I'm slowly getting sick of having to take my Laptop into a different room each time I want to use the TV. Each time that I do so it's a lot of work and since I'm in a wheelchair If I drop an external HDD, which there is a real chance of, that's quite a loss. I also plan on using it as form of a personal home wide cloud and as a general storage system. Since it will be located right next to the TV, it can't really have too many LED's, although I like builds with lots of LED's. A PC shaped disco ball would be way too distracting. Which is also why it needs to be reasonably quiet, I doubt I can make it really silent, but I'll give it a go. As I don't really have fine motor skills, or a usable reaction time, I don't really plan on using it for gaming, for the time being at least. Other than a few good oldies from my past such as Empire Earth, Age of Empires 2, Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader, Sims 3... and so on. Which I'm hoping the Intel HD 4600 GPU can handle. Since this is the first post to this build I wont go on about all the components, most of them I picked very carefully I wish I had put more thought into the PSU, but I'll give an explanation as to why later on if the reason isn't obvious. The visuals will be pretty simple other than the NZXT cooler the build has no special LED's. Which in of it's self nearly kills me, I love over the top whacky builds that look like an aliens mother ship has landed on earth and is trying to hide. So basically it will just look like a normal NZXT Phantom 530. since it will look so basic I have no idea if anyone will care, but I thought I'd give it a go. There will be Pics so don't abandon ship quite yet, if you haven't already done so. So far I have received the four HDD's and I just received three packages I have yet to open. (they look like they're in good shape so fingers crossed that all is well.)

Nzxt x61 kraken though you may want to switch the fans theyre quite loud

I'd spend the extra 30.

TY I get what you mean. For me I just realise that the potential loss would be signifficant and the gain in speed would not be that big. Also it adds another 200+$ to the cost of the build, and I am limited in the ammount of Sata ports That I have available. And a phantom 530 only has one dedicated 2.5 at the back. I count 1 pro, 2 if you count the wow factor and 4 cons, 5 if you count my rationalisation.

it depends, I doubt there will be a huge improvement, if you care for the intel gpu, ít may save you some energy savings. other wise I'd expect a slightly lower tdp over all and maybe 5% better performance.

Ok thanks for the input, I think I will stick with one ssd. twice the chance of data doesn't really appeal to me. I think I came to a similar answer when I first created the blueprints for the build, but I thought I'd ask so again thanks for the help.

Thanks for the quick replies. As it Is I've never RAIDed a drive before it would really interest me. However it does somehow come down to how much do I stand to gain. It still isn't free, it would still cost me just shy of 200sfr. And I’ve already gone overkill on the CPU, RAM and cooling already. However 1100mb/s read and 1000mb/s write speeds are tempting.

Hi guys, so I’m currently buying and constructing my latest rig. For this rig I ordered a 512gb Crucial MX100. And originally I had no intention of getting a second one and using a RAID0 array, mostly due to a lack of SATA III ports, I'm a slight storage junkie, I already nave 4 6tb drives and a Bluray reader using 6 of the 8 SATA ports, but should I reconsider? I won't really be gaming on it (at least not much) as I have no fine motor skills and a truly atrocious reaction time. So any thoughts? Was my first inclination right, or should I reconsider? Thanks a lot for your thoughts.

Wow great work ALXAndy I'm loving the attention to detail, very nice!

Am I the only one here from Switzerland?