Congrats on your build. If the cooler touches and compresses the foam a bit - it's ok. It provides a little more stability if you have to move the case :) If it's compressing the foam so far that the case door is compressing/bulging against the cooler, then not so ok. No bending, but when you take ...

well folks, it finally happened.

https://de.pcpartpicker.com/b/frBPxr

many many thanks for helping me do this! One more question: it seems the top of the cpu cooler actually touches the dampening material of the side of the case. It still fits though.. I guess that's okay the way it is?

Have fun with your build. Thank youuu! and since I have you here; ESD wristband: yay or nay? (edit: yes I know there's probably a bunch of threads on this already, but I'm just asking your personal opinion) Edit 2: ooh.. and I can't figure out if the thermal paste that comes with the stock cooler (...

Update: I went with the define mini in the end btw, the parts will be arriving soon

OK, I made a slightly updated pcpartpicker list CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (€194.00) CPU Cooler: Scythe Kotetsu 79.0 CFM CPU Cooler (€35.40 @ Amazon Deutschland) Motherboard: Asus H97M-PLUS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€93.00) Memory: Crucial DIMM 8GB DDR3-1600 Ballistix Sp...

CA_Steve and quest_for_silence... your patience knows no bounds. I have the Silencio at 210 x 451.5 x 505.0 mm (volume of 47.8 ) and the R5 at 232 x 451 x 521mm (54.5 volume) so... yeah, you're right, it's only a bit smaller. It's a good bit cheaper though. (€70 vs €110) That's very interesting abou...

balance this with the size of the case also, rather than just getting the one that has the lowest dB without considering anything else. Maybe we're getting you wrong, maybe you're biased in favour of the TJ-08E. Let's try an incorrect comparison, just for fun: TJ-08E (Intel Core i5-750/HD6850): 20d...

but how good is 25 to begin with? Anything over 20dB is no good (quietness-wise), anything over 30dB is plainly loud. Okay, then the question becomes how quiet would my build be using the TJE, compared to the 25 recorded under the header "System Measurements: Load (Asus EAH6850 DirectCU)" that mean...

Mats wrote:I give up.

ok.. I don't mean to be so stupid about it... but it doesn't seem unreasonable to take into account what I actually need and balance this with the size of the case also, rather than just getting the one that has the lowest dB without considering anything else.

hmm.. it does also though. The TJ08-E with the 180mm stock fan got an editors choice award Did you even look at the numbers? That review is 3.5 years old, and they think 25 dBA is okay. Compare that to 17 dBA on the GTX 980 system. I do, but how can I tell that they're under a comparable load? So t...

I follow the customer reviews at geizhals, of course. :) The closer to 1 the better. yeah, that's true. I'm an odd mixture so I'm actually not culturally that german, so the 1 being the best grade is counterintutive to me :P Just look at the system reviews here at SPCR , how many of them has a 180 ...

Oof, I'm back from my hiatus. Holy cow - 25 euros for a case fan...this just gets back into the tradeoffs of more expensive case or retrofitting a cheaper case with better components. :D well.. yes, though if it's true that I can get this AP182 fan to run slower and therefore quieter than the includ...

...and I wouldn't bother with the GTX 970 for 1080p. If you were upgrading to 1440p, sure. :mrgreen: don't tempt me! ___________________ It's impossible to talk about the SilverStone Precision PS07 without comparing it to the Temjin TJ08-E. The Temjin is superior in both thermal and acoustic perfor...

Sorry for the delay, I'm entertaining a visitor atm, rather cut into my internet time. You didn't mention the year of the rMBP build. In any case, note that the mobile intel i5 is a dual core 4 thread CPU, while the desktop i5 is a 4 core 4 thread CPU. Anyway, you get a feel for how much horsepower ...

Welcome to SPCR. Thanks! :) Eve Online is a pretty old game - I doubt that it requires much in terms of modern hardware. Heck, you can prove it yourself by benchmarking it on your rMBP. What's the CPU and GPU utilization when you set the display to 1080p? ...and what's the specs on your rMBP? my rM...

Hello there good people of the silentpcreview forum. I've been on here often, but now I think I'm ready to ask for advice. I need help picking parts for my first build. purpose: 1080p gaming, particularly EVE Online, light video editing, and everyday email/web/spreadsheets stuff, and maybe some othe...