Some time ago, taking into account information and advice received from here, I put together a system…
- Case: Fractal Design Define R4
- PowerSupply: ( broken after a bit less than 7 years ) Sea Sonic Platinum Series 520 Fanless
- Cooling: Noctua NH-C12P SE14 - Processor cooler
- Main-board: Asus Socket 1155 Z77-A
- CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz 6MB
- RAM: 4 * Crucial Ballistix Tactical - 4 GB - DIMM 240-pin - DDR3 - 1600 MHz / PC3-12800 - CL8 - 1.5 V
- SSD: Samsung 840 Pro Series - 256 GB - 2.5" - SATA-600
- HDD: Seagate Pipeline - 2 TB - 3.5" - SATA-600 - 5900 rpm - buffer: 64 MB
- VideoCard: MSI GeForce GTX 760 (N760TF2GD5/OC)
What upgrade paths have become viable meanwhile?
The main areas of use have remained similar…
- game development( including testing ), programming, 3D modelling, image and video editing, rendering, some engineering, research, learning and such
Usability of the Current System
- In case of many real-time or interactive tasks, the GPU tends to turn on fans and get to a more noisy state quite quickly. In this case, I usually tend to stop( or temporarily switch away from -- works only in some cases ) such tasks or put the whole computer to stand-by, to cool off. This means that it has not been easy to make use of the whole capacity.
- The CPU and general cooling produce ( somewhat less ) noise all the time. It has seemed that more performance would be useful.
- It has seemed that more RAM could be useful.
CPU Socket
It seems that LGA 1200 is the latest well-compatible with this cooler.
LGA 1151 also supports DDR3 memory. However, in order to upgrade its capacity, it seems that all new memory would be needed anyhow ( if all modules would need to have the same size and there would be no more than 4 slots total ).
CPU
Have been looking at newer models with similar and lower power consumption as an estimate of what the current cooling capabilities could handle, without being louder and hopefully allowing more silence.
It is possible to obtain...
- Intel Core...
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- i5-11400F for ~123 €
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- i7-10700 for ~213 €
Have been considering at least 24 GB, for now.
Possibly, ( at least initially ) 2 modules of...
- Fury, Performance Gaming, DDR4, 16GB, 2666 MHz, 260-pin SO DIMM, CL 15, Nominal voltage 1.2 V
Possibly...
- Gigabyte Socket 1200 Z590 Gaming X ~132 €
- Asus Socket 1200 Prime B560-Plus ~148 €
I've been told that "newer video cards' noise is minimal" and "the concern of noise was actual 4..5 years ago". To what extent is this true?
For example, there has been an offer of AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT GPUs for 360 Euros ( possibly somewhat cheaper now ). Would this be useful towards quietness?
PSU
considering replacing the one that suddenly exploded with a
- SeaSonic Prime Fanless 600W Titanium
Do any combinations of such components look reasonable?
Maybe something else could have a better relationship between quietness, performance and cost.
What bottlenecks could be anticipated?
Thank you in advance!
All the best!