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I'm new here so... Hey all! I'm new here, so I'll start posting random things - cool. Isn't it? Nah. It wouldn't be cool, so I try to stick to my Title: I'm into building a black and white 1080p (maybe 1440p later some time) gaming rig, that'll light up in all colours that I tell it too, as soon as I use my ASUS Aura on it. As well it should be as quiet as possible and from the sheer facts it should be around 38 db when it's under heavy load, right? So here's what I've came up with: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/WVpCCy Obviously the Asus Z170 Gaming / AURA is the heart around the Strix and the cases' LEDs. Theoretically the Strix should be at 0 noise as long as it's idling or as long as it's cooler than 50-60 degrees (depends on how I set it to in MSI Afterburner / CAM (by NZXT) or... you name it), as well the PSU should be quiet (pun intended) as possible. The CPU cooler shouldn't be louder than 25 db at under heavy load so... holy mother of cooling, that one is quiet! The RAM might be overkill, but their looks are overkill as well. My only concern is the CPU cooler, so if I want to OC at some point a bit more than just 300 - 400 MHZ I might need a bigger cooler.. but there's this high profile ram... Is there any non AIO Watercooler that will provide me enough cooling and RAM clearance, to overclook my CPU seriously ? What do you guys think at all about that build? Feedback is very welcome! Best greetings from Germany, Marco

Hello guys I thought you might find this video interesting. I watched this on my phone and at one point when he says "mute" my phone muted. I have the iPhone 6 plus. However, watching the same video on the pc or tablet it doesn't mute. Link

Hello guys, Long time sub of LTT, first time forum user, long post up ahead, bewarned, thank you for your patience. This will be my first build, and I intend for it to be a long-term workhorse, to last at least 4 years, hope I don't need to mess around with it too much, mostly set and forget. I value 'easy'/'simple' builds, nothing should be a 'Linus' style, improvised solution, as I said, this needs to be a workhorse. Machine should be ready before June of 2017, but after February 2017 (I am fixing my room first). Assume I do not have any existing hardware/peripherals. Willing to buy some parts 2nd hand. Here we go: 1. Budget & Location Budget: At the moment hard to say, approximately AUD $ 2.6k, all-in (including all extras). I may be able to stretch slightly. Delayed purchase of some non-essential parts is possible (for instance, extra RAM). Location: Sydney, Australia. Variety of options for parts is not too bad, but probably not as great as USA, currency-wise, we're about 72 cents to the dollar vs USD. Climate can get quite hot during the summer heat waves - my location gets 40oC+ for quite a few days every year, and many days above 35oC. I expect to be able to operate this machine during those times, with limited loss in performance. Machine location: In my (small) room. Silence is going to be quite important. I do not need a fan-less build, I do not need dead silence, but as much as possible, the decibels should be reduced. 2. Aim I am an engineering research student, so my use case is probably not the 'normal' gamer/streamer type; I shall split this up in the my 4 primary use cases: Engineering simulation: Primarily I will be running Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations (CFD) on this machine, I will run the 'big' simulations at my university facility, but some of the 'smaller' projects and most of the meshing, I will run at home. Programs I plan to run are ANSYS Fluent and CFX, OpenFOAM and if I can get the license, Star CCM (maybe)... From past experience, I will need at least 16 GB of RAM for this. CPU parallelization is also a great booster of CFD workload, in some programs more than others. Expect this machine to be working for days at a time. Engineering modelling: CAD work, not 3D animation. Primary software packages are CATIA, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk AutoCAD, Solidworks. From past experience, most decently powered PCs can do the job, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue. Engineering calculation: Programs like Matlab, and Excel. Any decently powerful CPU and more than 8GB of RAM should be enough, so I'm not concerned. Gaming: AAA titles - think Bioshock, Far Cry, Crysis, Civ 6, Metal Gear Solid V, Project Cars etc etc. I also love Skyrim and Fallout graphics mods, and will finally get to run the 'pretty' looking ones, hopefully, maybe... I'm don't *need* frame rates to be high, as long as they are > 30fps I'm happy. But I would love to run very high/ ultra graphics settings if possible, I love to look at pretty stuff. Planned resolution of ~1440p, not 4k. I do not play FPS' that often, so high fps counts not essential. Aside from all of this, I will be doing a lot of research work on this machine, so things like reading, lots of typing, more typing. haha. Occasional image and video editing. Also, Chrome tabs. Chrome tabs. 3. Monitors Space on my desk is limited, as I need to use my 15.6" laptop as well. Desk dimension is ~120cmx60cm. If I can, I would really love to run Ultrawide. Not sure if I should run 3440x1440, 2560x1080, or 2560x1440. Thoughts? As far as panel is concerned, IPS or LED is probably best, never been a fan of TN. Refresh rate doesn't need to be much higher than 75Hz?. Latency <10ms. Love accurate colours. If space does turn out to be an issue, or cost, compromise to 1080p is possible. 4. Peripherals + Others Mouse+keyboard: I would prefer a keyboard that is not mechanical, and relatively quiet. I do not mind mechanical, but the noise has been too annoying for me from past experience. The majority of my history with keyboards has been with laptop keyboards. Nothing particular for the mouse, prefer ambidextrous, simple, no extra buttons, scroll wheel essential, with click and side scroll a nice bonus. If there is a package that will also allow me to dock+charge+switch between my phone/laptop/desktop, that would be super awesome. Toss of a coin between wired or wireless to be honest. Sound: I'll use the stock motherboard sound with my existing speakers for now. Possible sound card in the far future, uncertain. Bay devices: Need card reader eventually, prefer BluRay drive as well for multimedia. Hard drive: I need storage much more than I need speed. Prepared to sacrifice SSD to save cost, CFD files can get very big and messy. Case: I don't care about looks. I care about ease of use, and silence. Best case scenario, mid-tower size. Currently looking at Define R5. Cooling is also important. Historically, dust seems to be a problem with my house and my room - dust filters and other dust minimization or ease of cleaning tricks are welcome. PSU: Don't need a tonne of power, only going for 1 GPU realistically, and non-OC CPU. Efficiency and silence will be key. I'm thinking 500-750W? OS: Will require Windows and Office. Wireless: Should need it, although nothing too fancy. 5. Why are you upgrading? I need more power for the work that I want to do. Also want to finally get a larger than 15.6" screen. Need more storage than my current laptop+ExtHDD setup can provide. 6. Extra Notes? USB Type C port on the front/top of the case is a nice bonus, planning for a new phone soon. No plans for OC of CPU or GPU. Currently unsure if GPU can help speed up the CFD simulations, or rather, what type of GPUs will speed it up - reading up on it. Small possibility of running 2 GPUs to speed up simulations, but prefer single GPU gaming. Not sure if I need ECC memory, I don't think the computers I have used for CFD in the past had it (except the big HPC server at my university), so I do not think ECC is necessary for this build. If someone here knows more, and points out flaws in my approach, I am willing to completely reassess my budget for a justified improvement in reliability/performance/silence etc. I'm not biased towards any brand, but Zen has gotten me excited, due to them likely having more cores given the similar price/power of i5s. As little RGB nonsense as possible, I find that shit annoying. Back-lit keyboard is acceptable but not necessary. Conclusion Once again, massive thanks for those who have stuck with the long post. I post lots of detail here to not waste time later. Thanks in advance for the feedback/opinions. TL;DR Need new PC build for 2.6k AUD, used for engineering simulation work and gaming. Building early 2017. Looking forward to your responses.

Hi all, As per subject I would want to change my current CPU liquid cooler (H50) with something like H105, H100i or Nepton 240M. I have a i7 3770K, I don't overclock it, I'm just looking for something to keep it cool and silent even when the load is 100% on 4 cores; the case I have is a Cosmos 1000. I use Ubuntu 16.04 and I've read that Corsair software is not supported on Linux (or better, Corsair hasn't released the USB specs hence lm-sensors doesn't properly work out of the box). I'm tempted to go for the Nepton 240M but quite frankly I'm open to any suggestion! What would you recommend and why? Thanks - I'm a bit lost at the moment...

Hey everyone, i want to change my computer case but after hours of reading several reviews i can't find the silver bullet for my problem: I'm accepting every possible suggestion that fits with the following description and personal experiences too. I require the case to HAVE: 5 (or more) bay for 3.5''HDDs Airflow oriented Silent (by silent i mean no rattling unnecessary aesthetic parts floating around). Able to house a two tower cpu Heatsink (The big ass ones, like the noctua D15) Able to house 3 fan GPU (Like G1 gaming or Strix). This i don't care about (May or may not have): Lights. Colors. Size (it it's huge i don't care). Side window. Fan controllers. Water cooling support. Aesthetics (it can be ugly as an ogre aborted fetus). Weight (it can be as heavy as a rock troll). Handles (i don't need to move it around). Fancy front I/O. Up to this day the only two i found were Corsair D900 (expensive as fuck) and Core X9 that is semi awkward regarding cable management. I'm open to every suggestion, thanks in advanced!

I bought this pc on a budget with the goal of having a near silent pc that can run all the latest games while still remaining quiet enough for music production purposes. originally everything was fine with my first gcard (msi R9270) temps were high while gaming but not too high and it wasn't too loud. eventually my graphics card died due to a power supply issue and i was given a R9290 as a replacement model however this new card is way too hot, it runs at about 95c when gaming and starts to throttle after about 3 mins of gameplay and the fan speed and level is crazy it runs at 80-100% while gaming at a max of 2000rpm this is also creating very hot ambient temps inside my case and as a result heats up my cpu and ramps up the fan speed making it very loud. Is this normal for this card? Airflow in my case is decent with some seriously good fans but it doesnt seem like enough. The aircooler i am using is very good when it doesn't have the extra heat from the gpu and i dont really have anywhere to put an AIO watercooler in this case currently. I have two options right now a) Sell the graphics card for either an older cooler model or an nvidia equivalent with hopefully better cooling. b) Upgrade my case to the silencio 652 which has space for more fans, fan controller and water cooling compatibility if needed. putting in more fans just seems counter productive. It may seem like a silly question but would more fans cause my pc to get louder or would it cool it down to a level where the fans wont need to run as hard to cool the rig? Also how much would an AIO cooling block help this situation both in terms of heat and noise? I seem to get these problems even when the side panel is off, making me think a new case wouldn't help much? Any suggestions would help if what direction to go with this rig. My main goal is to have a quiet gaming pc, Temperatures Without graphics card CPU idle at 28-30c CPU Load - 50c With graphics card CPU idle 43c CPU load - 55-60c GPU Idle -61c GPU load 90-95c My Rig MSI Trin Frozr IV R9290 X2 4GBs Vengeance DDR3-1400 RAM Arctic i30 Cooler with Corsair sp120 quiet edition attached Asrock z87 pro4 Motherboard X3 Seagate SATA Drives CoolerMaster 550 Silencio Case 1x Jetflo 120 fan 2x 120mm intake fans - silencio 120fp - 800-1400rpm - coolmaster standard fan 800rpm Intel Core i7-4790 3.6GHZ GPU EVGA 750 G2 PSU Case has 2x120mm intake fans and 1x120mm exhaust with no room for additional fans on case

Hi everyone, so the other day I got the evga gtx 1060 6gb sc (120w TDP), I thought it was going to be a silent card (my previous one was a msi gaming x, a really silent one). Lucky me found a Prolimatech MK 26 cooler which has a 320w TDP. Would that be enough to run the card without fans while gaming?

Hey guys, recently I bought RX480 msi gaming x 8g variant. The card is a beast and hell of a quiet. But the problem is that my PSU is quite shitty and very loud. It's a tracer Highlander 550w. Can you maybe suggest me a nice PSU for around 90-100eu that would fit my rx480 and would be quiet aswell?

I don't care if it's modular or not. All i want is silence and at least 8-pin connector for my GPU.

I'm looking for some suggestions for fully black or black/grey 120mm/140mm case fans that are as close to completely silent as possible (particularly with regard to bearing/motor noise). I bought Be Quiet! 140mm Pure Wings 2 PWM fans, and they made a rattling noise from the motor that was irritating from 1 meter away, so I returned them and bought Corsair AF140 Quiet Edition fans, which ended up rattling about 3 times as loud. My CPU cooler included a 135mm SilentWings 3 fan from Be Quiet! and it is 100% silent until I get close enough to nearly chop my ear off. However both Amazon and Newegg are out of stock of the non high speed SilentWings 3 fans. I considered the black Noctua IndustrialPPC fans, but they only come in 2000 and 3000 rpm, and I've heard it is next to impossible to get them truly silent. My requirements are that the fans, enclosures, mounts, and cables must be fully black or black with dark grey accents (colored stickers are fine), 120mm or 140mm, have 0 motor/bearing noise, and I would prefer to pay $30USD or less per fan (though at this point I may be willing to sacrifice my first-born child). I know I'm picky, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

These three are within my budget, which is the best for noise while moving sufficient air? I am building a HTPC in a Silverstone GD09B. Any other suggestions welcome, I prefer if canada computers has them in stock though as I plan on buying the case there tomorrow ! Thanks

Hi there! I want to replace my current build (Athlon X4 750K - based. And - actually - I was quite fond about it for quite some time. ) I've been thinking about this new build for like a month now, changing this and that every two days... Does it make sense in its current state? I'll use it for: 1) Gaming (720p with max settings, pre-2016 games bound by DX9 and OpenGL. At least for the next few months... Or years...) 2) Programming (50% web dev, no resource-consuming webgl stuff. 50% 2D game dev, nothing even close to AAA) 3) Some light content creation (audio/video/graphics. Again, nothing proffesional. And I don't really care all that much about rendering times). 4) And it'll run lightweight Arch Linux as an only operating system. ( It'll also have Windows XP in virtual machine for VS2008 and Don't Starve Together game). As in the title - it should be as quiet as possible. As for the pricing, it can not exceed $720 limit. One $ more, and I'd need to take a loan. And I hate those... Motherboard: MS-7707 CPU: Intel Core i5 2500k RAM: 8 GB DDR3 (two 4GB sticks that I already own) My reasoning: At first, I wanted to go with i5-6600K, compatible MoBo and new RAM. But then I looked around for benchmarks, and it turned out that with my needs I wouldn't notice much difference between this hi-end setup and deprecated 2500k, which can be overclocked if needed, too... Also, I have never exceeded 7GB of RAM, even in my most resource-heavy endevours. HDD: Toshiba 500GB SSD: Crucial MX300 525GB My reasoning: At first, I wanted to go with NVMe drives, but it turned out that they truly shine only with sequential RWs, like huge databases. With my intended usage, both SATA-based SSD and NVMe drive would bog down to ~300MB/s speeds. I want to make RAID-1 setup out of those two drives. After my RAID-0 burned down after 6 years of continous usage, I like to be careful around my data. I'll sacrifice write speeds, sure, but I read data way more often than I write it. And HDDs are way more trustworthy than SSDs, at least from what I've heard... GPU: Asus Strix GeForce GTX 970 My reasoning: I'm not even sure if it won't be an overkill for my needs. If someone would recommend something less expensive, while equally silent and capable of running Crysis 1 and 2 on 720p@60 maxed out, I'll happily go with it. PSU: Seasonic Platinum-460FL2 Fanless 460W My reasoning: AFAIK it's the only fanless PSU available for my market. And I don't need lot of Watts. Calculator tells me that I'll have around 100W headroom under heavy workload... Carbide 100R Silent Edition Black MID-Tower My reasoning: It's the cheapest case available with sound dampening material. It has some good reviews, too. AAB COOLING SUPER SILENT P4 PWM Rev.2 My reasoning: Cheapest whisper-silent cooler, with size just enough for the case mentioned above. Thanks in advance for all suggestions! If I'm completely wrong about this build, I'll happily admit it Cheers!

I've build myself a gaming rig, but I've found out that my 250GB Samsung Evo 850 is limitting me now, since I can't store all my games on it (duh). So... I'm looking to buy a 2TB harddrive to store all my games on (Steam + Origin library, and some other games). I have a quiet build now, so I want a quiet hdd. My case got some kind of rubber bands in the hdd trays, so I guess that will help me keeping it quiet. I've found out that the WD Blacks are pretty noisy (34dB in seek-mode), and the WD Reds are actually one of the most quiet hdd's (24dB in seek-mode). I do know that the blacks are spinning at 7200rpm and the red's at 5400rpm, but according to Western's site, that differs not more than 20MB/s. (size, rpm, max write speeds, idle noise, seek noise) (black/red/blue) 2TB, 7200rpm, 164MB/s, 29dB, 34dB 2TB, 5400rpm, 147MB/s, 23dB, 24dB 2TB, 5400rpm, 147MB/s, 21dB, 27dB Would it suck to get a RED drive for a desktop computer? Will I see (dramatic) performance in-/decreases? What would your guys advice be for a quiet build? Sources: WD Black WD Red WD Blue

Hey guys, I heard that the default fans that ship with the Hydro H100i are pretty loud (36dB). Can I use the silent Noctua Casefan NF-S12B Redux 1200 PWM 120mm fans? Or do they have too less pressure? If they have too less, which silent one would you guys advice? Thnx in advance!

Hello My name is Simon. I currently have the fans which came with the case, however I have started to notice that the noice is a little bit to high, when I turn the fans up. Therefore I am looking for new fans, which can push the same air, as the ones I got now, but which are much more quieter. The problem is that I have zero experience with fans, and after watching some videos I more lost than ever. I somewhat understand the terms of dBA, RPM, and the airflow of the fans, but that's it. Therefore I am asking for you guys help, if you have any experience with some fans, which gets the job down, meanwhile being atleast more quiet than the ones I got, I would appreciate if you would share your experience. My case is the Cooler Master Storm Tropper with: Front: 120mm Red LED fan x 2, 1200 RPM, 17 dBA Rear: 140mm fan x 1, 1200 RPM, 19 dBAn (converted to 120mm fan) Top: 200mm fan x 1, 1000 RPM, 23 dBA (converted to 2 x 120 / 140 mm

Hi, I am planning to build a new PC soon, and now I am looking for a good case to go with it. I would like to get one with a good balance between noise and cooling, I don't need a completely silent case, but I'd prefer if it wouldn't be too loud, while still maintaing decent cooling capabilities. I don't care too much about RGB, color scheme or overall design, good performance is the priority for me. Price limit is around 150$, but I'm willing to go a bit higher if the case is worth it. Hardware I'll (probably) use: Ryzen 7 3700x w/ Noctua NH-D14 (already owned) MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Gaming X Trio be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 700W (mainly a placeholder, haven't done proper research for PSU yet) Mainboard not sure yet either, but probably a ATX-Board I also have 3 120mm Noctua Case Fans which I could reuse from my old PC (can't tell exact name atm unfortunately), buying new ones wouldn't be a big deal though Cases that peaked my interest atm is the SilverStone Kublai KL07 and the Fractal Design Meshify S2. I'd be very thankful for your experiences with these or other recommendations. I also apologize for another "advice seeking" post like that, there are probably 1000s of them out there already, but I built my last PC 5 years ago and didn't quite kept up with new hardware, plus my experience with PC cases is very limited, so I feel a bit lost and some opinions would be very helpful.

This is an awesome idea I would like LTT to attempt using their own creativity. Building a spectacular DIY 'desk PC' (it can fold!)

My first custom loop. Blood sweat and cuts. Leak test for a few hours. Case didnt make it easy to build in. Drain valve in worst place. Apart from that im happy. When full system on should look good. RGB from fans and gpu block.

So, I saw a Video by JayzTwoCents, called "This is the dumbest thing I've ever done...", at this point I knew I had to try this too. Video in short: Jay attempts to get his Benchtable to Ambient Temps, using 4x480mm and a cheap Boxfan. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jay'z Setup: Ambient: 21.667°C *Heat Dissipation: 1.624W-2.696W Zotac GTX 1080ti: 26°C Intel 8700K: 82°C (No Delid) ! Cpu is not Compareable due to it being not delided ! Tested: 10min. OCCT Superposition 1080p Extreme Cooling: 4x EK 480 (38mm) + 20inch Boxfan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Heat Dissipation estimated with EK Configurator (Silent and OC) My Setup: Ambient: 22°C *Heat Dissipation: 660W-1066W Zotac GTX 1080ti Mini: 33°C (120% Power) Intel 8600K 4.00Ghz: 40°C (Delid Conductonaut on IHS, Kryonaut on HSpreader) Tested: 30min of BF4 at 1440p MAX Cooling; 1x Aquatuning/Phobya Quad 560 Extreme + 4x EK-Vardar Furious 140mm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Improvement Ideas Based on Work and Cost: -CPU Thermal Paste is not fresh and not enough (No Stock at Home) -One Vardar 140mm is only wiggling (Probably RMA) -Rock it cool Copper Heatspreader 20$ -Second 560mm Rad 70$ -Nude CNC Ncore 120$ -Phobya 1260mm submerged in LN2, and direct die block on GPU&CPU -DEATHWISH PLEASE SEND ME YOUR IDEAS!!

Hey guys and girls. I'm projecting my new build, i'm aiming for silence without hurting aesthetics because this will stay in my recording studio/editing and i need a good balance... So the build will be something like this: Ryzen 3700x Gigabyte Rtx 2070s gaming OC Gigabyte x570 aorus elite Crucial NVMe M.2 960 GB 2 x 16 GB G.Skill Trident Z DDR-4 3600Mhz Be Quiet! Power Zone 850W For cooling i will just watercool the cpu for now but in a close future i'll add the gpu. I'm thinking about using the Thermaltake PR-22 D5 pump and the Corsair Hydro XC7 block but in the radiator department a doubt came in my mind Will i have lower noise with: 480mm Rad and 4x Be quiet! Shadow Wings 2 Or a 360mm with 3 x Silent Wings 2? I'm not looking for extreme OC, just a stable and fast workstation/ gaming rig. Oh and all this in a Thermaltake Core P5 Tempered glass edition. Sorry for the long post

Hi guys What would be a good cooler for the 3700x? Would something like an Arctic freezer 34 esports duo or CoolerMaster MasterLiquid Lite 240 RGB be enough to keep it cool and quiet?

Hi. Currently have the Corsair Carbide 400C. I damaged the PSU shroud, cable management isn't so great and my CPU Cooler (NH-D15) just bearly fits (I'm unsure if it hits the side window or not). Because I will be upgrading my R5 1600 to a 3600 soon, I figured, might as well change the case while the MoBo is out of the case anyways (I would never get the NH-D15 back on while inside the case). Now I've watched many GamersNexus Case Reviews, and I thought I was set on the CoolerMaster MasterCase H500P Mesh, because of the great airflow and the 190mm CPU Cooler Clearance (current is 170mm,which barely fits if at all) The thing is, I'm pretty certain my R5 3600 won't reach high temperatures, because Zen2 doesn't overclock well & my CPU cooler is a beast. And given that I have a PNY GeForce RTX 2080 XLR8 Gaming OC (1440P 155Hz Gaming), I figured it would be better to have better airflow with the GPU (which will probably reach much higher temperatures). Looking at the following chart, I thought about the CoolerMaster SL600M (which also has plenty CPU Cooler clearance): But looking back at the CPU temps, I'm really uncertain if this will be good: ..What do you think? Is the trade-off too big to justify the SL600M? Obviously the H500P Mesh is good in CPU and okay-ish in GPU performance, but won't the noise be way more noticable? I recently took a liking in "as silent as necessary" environments. Any other ideas? The charts are from the end of 2018, are there even better alternatives now? Anything I am missing? Thanks alot!

Hi. I use custom build silent hackintosh for Lightroom + Photoshop and Hugin for panorama stitching, no games, VR etc. just mail, web browser and photo editing software. The question I have is, which graphics card would be the best for my setup? I narrowed down my choices to AMD (nVidia is not supported in latest macOS) and Sapphire Pulse has good opinions when it comes to noise, but I'm open to any suggestions. Other than performance for the video editing I worry about noice levels and a lifespan. There is a lot of graphics card out there used for mining cryptocurrency, which means they were working under 100% load all the time. No idle, no turned off for the night, just 100% load or even more if OC. Each graphics card would be faster than my integrated graphics. It's an old build (2015) based on i5 4690K and MSI motherboard H97M-G43 Intel LGA1150 H97 Micro ATX Motherboard (4x DDR3, 6x USB3.0, 8x USB2.0, GBE, LAN, HDMI, DVI, DP, VGA). Maxed out memory - 32GB. No graphics card, stock fan and procesor without OC, on factory settings from new in the Fractal Design Define R5 case. SUPER QUIET! I use this computer with 27" Eizo CG 277 monitor (2560x1440) and 21" ViewSonic for portraits (pivot mode @ 1200x1600). I don't plan switching to 4K for now. Recently I tried to upgrade my storage - SSD 850 EVO 1TB by adding M.2 970 EVO also 1TB as a boot drive and I failed. Still trying to sort this out (I ordered PCI Express adapter) but it could be not that easy as I'm thinking about dedicated graphics card, because recently I started editing some videos as well. I use DaVinci Resolve 15, very slow. I considered passive cooling with Palit 1050 Ti but nVidia on mac is not supported that well. So I have to narrow my choice to Radeon. RX 580 with 8GB of RAM would be the fastest option I can consider, but also louder than anything else. I'm not sure if I can benefit from that speed using my config (mother board has one PCIe 3.0 x16 slot (PCI_E1, supports x16 speed) and one PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (PCI_E4, supports x4 speed). I'm going to try and find out where my SSD will perform better. I can go for RX 580 4GB, which is cheaper than 8GB, but still pretty fast, RX 570 8GB (slower, should be quieter, same price as 580/4GB) or RX 560 4GB. There are even 2GB options, but that could be a bottle neck for the editing. I guess RX 480 should be also pretty good. Each of these cards is much faster than my built-in Intel Graphics and macOS use acceleration even to draw the interface, so the improvement should be overwhelming no matter what I choose. Price is not that important - all of these cards are available as used on ebay for £80-140 which is very acceptable. Thank you for your advice, vipR

Hi everyone! As you can read from the title, i'm looking for help on a completely silent workstation. The main use for this workstation would be music production, some light video editing and some photoshop with maybe a little bit of gaming here and there, but it would mainly be for producing content. My problem is just that I have no idea if this is even possible. I currently have no parts selected but I have some requirements: At least an 8 core CPU (preferably AMD) At least 32GB of RAM GPU: something like a Radeon 5700 or RTX 1050 Ti is good enough And of course, completely silent. (as little coil wine as possible as well) To me it doesn't matter if it gets a bit on the bigger side but I want something I can put together myself, I don't want to buy a pre-built workstation. I don't know if it's possible to build something like this myself, so I hope there's someone who can point me in the right direction here. thanks for any answers!

Which GTX 1070's have silent mode that turns off the fans when the GPU is within a certain temperature ? I was looking at some 1070 GPUs and most of them don't have a silent mode like most 1060's and their fans run permanently which is a thing I dont quite like.