Building a new computer

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andius Wrote:Hmm, all the reviews are saying that its a loud PSU, one of the reasons im excited about getting a new computer is that my current computer is very loud and annoying. So, I\'m trying to cut down on as much noise as possible.

Do you have any other reccommendations? I haven\'t boughten it yet, but I\'m planning on doing so very soon.

I was thinking about spending a bit more and getting this case instead, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6811129154

It does make a little bit of noise, so maybe it\'s not for the quiet home theater PC, but i can only hear it when i turn all of my PC\'s fans down to 5v..

I\'m not that fond of Antec designs myself, but their cases are usually of decent quality..

Big-Al Wrote:nvidea > ati
sad but true

If you look at it via how easy it is to increase shader performance, then yeah, maybe.. but when you compare image quality, ATi > nVidia ever since the 9600...

All i need to know is that ATi cards kill their competitors, the coding frustrations aren\'t for me

btw, Haven\'t really got an alternative for the PSU then..the CM only produces a small humm, unless you\'re gaming heavily (cpu heat rises to psu + psu is loaded) then i can hear it the rest, if i pay attention and listen to which fan it is And it has pretty good 12v rails..


edit: just checked out the images at newegg, i recognize that case, i remember myself looking at it thinking \"damn... tooo much metal.. how can that ever work?\" when i saw it at work.

I haven\'t checked out the airflow in it, but the less metal means the better for me
(keep in mind my thoughts here are biased sorta, since i noticed i went for looks instead of functionality, by sacrificing my 3*HDD bay for 1 floor mounted HDD ... (looks cool, 150gb raptor with a CCFl above it, HDD itself mounted in shock absorbing/cooling zalman bracket, which is dremeled to the floor of the case... a look from outside shows the platters spinning and the heads searching ^^)

so it could very well be a good case, im just scared of metal (less airflow / weight problem) though i should check that case tomorrow at work to see how it works..