advice for a small, powerful, quiet system
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:42 pm
Hi,
My question for the impatient in the room: Does it make sense to put four drives (2x HDD & 2x SSD) in cases like the Fractal Design R4 or the SilverStone TJ08B-E or will I be shooting myself in the foot because of the effective heat+noise?
Longer story:
I need this system to be powerful (think lots of photoshop/other graphic programs), silent or near-silent, and ideally in a small, attractive case since it's going to be sitting in the living room--my priorities in that order. I was planning on going with an ATX board, but the idea of having a micro-ATX case sounds really nice because of the potentially small footprint and low profile. What I'm worried about is that given everything that I want to cram in there, I will be frying eggs on top of the case (or worse, frying eggs with ear plugs in). I don't play games so I won't be putting in any crazy graphic cards, although I do plan on overclocking a little bit (3770K at about 4Ghz). So my question is: given everything that I want to put in the system (see below), do you think a case like R4 and/or TJ08B-E will still be able to keep everything at OK temperatures and stay quiet, or am I better off with (a) sucking it up and going with a full ATX board/case, (b) going for a closed-loop water cooling, or (c) something entirely different? Any suggestions welcome!
Also, money matters...
potential micro-ATX system:
ASUS Maximus V Gene (I want at least 4x SATA3 and I'm affraid of ASRock...)
i7 3770K @ ~4Ghz
Hyper 212+ -OR- Corsair H80i -OR- other suggestions?
2x WesternDigital Red 3TB
2x SSD
Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 650W PSU
Nvidia Quadro 4000
Fractal Design R4 -OR- SilverStone TJ08B-E -OR- other suggestions?
potential ATX system (same as above except...):
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
Hyper 212+
Antec P183 V3 -OR- Antec SOLO II -OR- CM Silencio 550 -OR- CM Elite 371 -OR- Fractal Design Core 1000 -OR- Nexus Prominent 5 -OR- other suggestions?
thanks everyone!
My question for the impatient in the room: Does it make sense to put four drives (2x HDD & 2x SSD) in cases like the Fractal Design R4 or the SilverStone TJ08B-E or will I be shooting myself in the foot because of the effective heat+noise?
Longer story:
I need this system to be powerful (think lots of photoshop/other graphic programs), silent or near-silent, and ideally in a small, attractive case since it's going to be sitting in the living room--my priorities in that order. I was planning on going with an ATX board, but the idea of having a micro-ATX case sounds really nice because of the potentially small footprint and low profile. What I'm worried about is that given everything that I want to cram in there, I will be frying eggs on top of the case (or worse, frying eggs with ear plugs in). I don't play games so I won't be putting in any crazy graphic cards, although I do plan on overclocking a little bit (3770K at about 4Ghz). So my question is: given everything that I want to put in the system (see below), do you think a case like R4 and/or TJ08B-E will still be able to keep everything at OK temperatures and stay quiet, or am I better off with (a) sucking it up and going with a full ATX board/case, (b) going for a closed-loop water cooling, or (c) something entirely different? Any suggestions welcome!
Also, money matters...
potential micro-ATX system:
ASUS Maximus V Gene (I want at least 4x SATA3 and I'm affraid of ASRock...)
i7 3770K @ ~4Ghz
Hyper 212+ -OR- Corsair H80i -OR- other suggestions?
2x WesternDigital Red 3TB
2x SSD
Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 650W PSU
Nvidia Quadro 4000
Fractal Design R4 -OR- SilverStone TJ08B-E -OR- other suggestions?
potential ATX system (same as above except...):
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
Hyper 212+
Antec P183 V3 -OR- Antec SOLO II -OR- CM Silencio 550 -OR- CM Elite 371 -OR- Fractal Design Core 1000 -OR- Nexus Prominent 5 -OR- other suggestions?
thanks everyone!