Also check out the Radeon HD 7750 Sapphire Ultimate, it's cooled passively, so completely silent, and is about as powerful as that 650.

OK guys, thank you, I feel safer going for the caseless build knowing that I can always resort to the wire solution if I have interference problems!

Interesting. Does anyone know whether something like this do the job, with 1.5mm holes? The computer will be near speakers and monitor..
http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/12098599 ... sbar&cbt=y

Hmm, this is actually a concern for me.. It would completely defeat the purpose of this build if it caused interference with my guitars or microphones. Will have to re-think this, possibly with a macho HR-02 as the CPU cooler so that the whole thing fits inside a Fractal R4, which I hear is about as...

What do you mean by EMV? Electromagnetic... ___ ?

While googling it I found something rather amusing: http://www.emfblues.com/3-Hole-EMF-Prot ... ction.html

I think I'll go the route of custom-building, in order to show off that heatsink and preserve as much airflow as possible. Something as simple as laying the components flat and putting them between two layers of plexiglas, separated by 'stilts' could work..

Thanks for the comments, everyone. Changed the RAM to this one, it looks like this is the lowest-profile stick I can get from my retailer: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/16gb-(2x8gb)-corsair-ddr3-desktop-pc3-12800-(1600)-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-11-11-11-30-15v Also changed the mobo to this one, becau...

Hey there! First post here. I'm overdue an upgrade of my audio recording computer, and ever since discovering the existence of the (ridiculously large) NoFan CPU heatsinks, I've become obsessed with the idea of a completely silent, completely passive build. Below I've pasted the components I've chos...