Building a new, quiet PC

[Akubane]

oh? I was just making an assumption based on the number.

 

[gurusan]

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[Peter.Cort]

lol? and no cause if that were the case then you wouldn't need any drives for raid 0.

im pretty sure you need atleast 3 drives to do raid 5.

 

[decibaL]

you need 4 to do raid 5

 

[Black Falcon 921]

If you are looking for a quite case from what I understand this it the most quite case out there right now.



Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER COSMOS 1000 RC-1000-KSN1-GP Black/ Silver Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail

 

[Akubane]

i've got the cosmos.

its Dead silent.

almost too quiet.

 

[enthusiast1917]

ok guys, made new revisions to my build based on ur comments, tnks for all ur help. heres my final decisions

CPU: Q6600 /w g0stepping
CPU COOLER: Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme
MOBO : Asus P5K
RAM : 4gb (2x2gb) supertalent
GFX: Leadtek 8800gt 512mb
Sound card : Audigy 2 ZS 5.1
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint T 500GB / 2X Samsung Spinpoint T 250GB
O/S: Win XP pro 64bit
PSU: Zippy 500W
CASE: Thermaltake Tsunami

I've decided noiseness isnt a huge factor anymore, im getting the tsunami for a great deal too

i've heard a lot of raid discussion on this thread, im not sure what it is, but would i benefit from a faster hdd in any way if i buy 2x 250gb samsung spinpoints and ask the PC tech (whose building my pc ) to 'raid' them for me? cheers

ill specifically ask for the q6600 with gostepping, as it seems to be a huge overclocking advantage. hope to reach 3.0ghz++ with my q6600 with low temps . (again, gonna ask the PC tech to o/c for me, i've tried reading newbie guides to overclocking, have absolutely no idea still, also the element of breaking something really gets to me. tnks for all the help.

 

[Invisible]

change the samsung to a seagate 7200.11 32mb cache 500gb
its double the warranty of the samsung plus an extra year and double the cache
and the audigy isn't necessary unless you have nice speakers

 

[enthusiast1917]

done

CPU: Q6600 w/ g0stepping
CPU COOLER: Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme
MOBO : Asus P5K
RAM : 4gb (2x2gb) supertalent
GFX: Leadtek 8800gt 512mb
Sound card : Audigy 2 ZS 5.1
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 SATA2, 3.5LP, 32MB, 7200RPM
O/S: Win XP pro 64bit
PSU: Zippy 500W
CASE: Thermaltake Tsunami

also, im recycling the audigy 2 ZS from my old pc, so is free

hopefully the pc tech can o/c my cpu to the 3.0ghz + levels, would be nice.

 

[gurusan]

Looks like a great build, but buying XP at this point in time is a bit of an odd move.