reven: how many of you guys had issues with faulty parts?
Sometimes you just get unlucky and get a DOA part and spend hours trying to figure out why your build isn't working as normal. Rare but it does happen.
timmmay: I considered water cooling. Apparently the compressor can sound like a small fridge.
What compressor?
The modern all in one water cooling packages like the Corsair H100 (H50 etc) series are pretty quiet. Just a pump/cpu block + radiator + one or more fans on the radiator. Noise depends on how fast the fan needs to run to cool the radiator.
For gaming, you're objectively wrong. Every benchmark under the sun for 90% of games (the GPU bound ones) shows a powerful GPU has a much bigger bonus to FPS than a bigger CPU. For the last 10% CPU bound games, you'd be right.
The OP specifically mentions mmo's in the first thread, those (wow especially) love more cpu power.
.. but yeah agree with the advice to increase budget or cut extras (cooler, optical drive, DIY the build) to get an i5
timmmay: I considered water cooling. Apparently the compressor can sound like a small fridge.
What compressor?
The modern all in one water cooling packages like the Corsair H100 (H50 etc) series are pretty quiet. Just a pump/cpu block + radiator + one or more fans on the radiator. Noise depends on how fast the fan needs to run to cool the radiator.
Possibly old information, I did the research a few years back. Just saying it's not silent.
The pumps are pretty close to silent on the ones I have used. With a 3 fan radiator the machine was running them so slowly you could actually see them turning, and even that was about on par with the pump. HDD noise was more offensive than the cooling noise in normal use. When it was maxed in a game it was no worse than a typical PC at a bit over idle.
My solution is to get long USB and HDMI cables and put the box a long way away from me.
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