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What about the SPCR EDITOR'S CHOICE POWER SUPPLIES? Ok, the be quiet wins over the antec one by quite a bit now that i managed to find a 530w be quiet(30£ cheaper than the antec as well) (cant find a 400W for some reason) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Be-Quiet-BN106-Power-Supply/dp/B002JWLN5S/ref=sr_1_3?...

A couple of years back I'd have bought a F2380. just found one on amazon for 140£-still worth it? thanks for the link-havent visited that one before. I was also thinking about getting a cheaper ish one rather than spend much more not to get much more. Ideally a 25-27" monitor would be great but the...

Why such a high-capacity PSU? Did you look at the Be Quiet one I listed? Yes, thanks for the suggestion, i did. It turns out 7£ cheaper vs the antec one (on amazon) but has no reviews (and not rated on spcr, but i might have missed that one). Thats pretty much the only reason why. The antec truepow...

(assuming such an AV even exists) I can't recommend an AV since I don't use any but I would start by giving a good look to Microsoft's. It's their OS, they've got the funding and they're the only ones who have a real incentive to make a genuinely unobtrusive and reliable AV. Ye i turned it off- the...

Hm, I don't know. The scenario you described with just a few background processes should not bog down a modern dual-core CPU (and your T6500 is one). ye-just looked through it- it is the antivirus that wants to scan everything (avast, so shouldnt be a resourse hog). I have tried avg and avira, i fi...

You still weren't entirely specific what you want. Office/Latex needs next to no CPU power, are you unhappy with the T6500's performance in those kinds of applications? What do you mean with games like COD4? I am not happy with the performance of my system when I have more than a couple of things g...

Bottom line: if you can't quantify your requirements properly, you won't get good advice. -I have outlined my requirements-office tasks, some light gaming(cod 4 at full hd and older), web , thats it. I may want an i7 but only need something that is better than t6500 (my laptop cpu). I dont want to ...

So what will you be doing? It will essentially be a work computer (office tasks, latex document publishing, some vm machines and some gaming (cod4 ish at hd res.) One other requierment is that it has to be quiet when operating- not to the point of quiter than an hdd, just audible over a ticking clo...

[quote="kuzzia"] then the Noctua CPU cooler is way overkill. A Scythe Mugen 3 is much cheaper and can easily cool an FX-4100, even overclocked. And the stock fan can be controlled via the PWM-controller (to run virtually silent) that any modern motherboard has. ] Ye the problem is that the scythe he...

Hi all, I am a total beginner at system building (this will be my first one) and I want to do it right and build a silent one to start off with. I have read through most of the silencing guides etc etc on spcr and have picked components almost exclusively from the spcr recommended list. I am very aw...