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My first PC build in ten years, my current PC hardware is incompatible with the latest windows release. I’m aiming for quietness and reliability over power.

I’m quite excited to get my hands on some parts again. Let me know what you think! :D

  • sunbytes@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    No idea if the CPU fan is silent or what, but I’d be certain if you’re going to the effort for a be-quiet case.

    Also I know it’s expensive to go higher, but I think that video card is going to be a big bottleneck on most games that came out after it was released. But if that’s not an issue, power to you.

    I guess if your CPU will be bottlenecked by the GPU, it won’t be getting hot enough for much fan noise anyway. However the GPU fans might be loud if they’re working hard.

    • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      The CPU fan is 25.1dB at full speed, so hopefully almost silent at no load.

      I’m extremely unlikely to be playing any modern games and will using the PC mostly for music and media, although I am starting to wonder if I should have just stuck with the mobo onboard graphics.

      • sunbytes@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Modern is pretty relative when your GPU generation is 4 years old.

        Plus it’s the lowest power of all of that gen.

        I am curious how much better performance you’d get from only onboard graphics.

        If you’re using hi-res monitors or multiple monitors, it’s probably good to not be using integrated graphics, I guess.

        • moody@lemmings.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          The 5600X doesn’t have onboard graphics. That would be the 5600G, which would have about the same graphics performance as the GTX 1630.

        • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s relatively modern when my current graphics card is ten years old and also wasn’t close to top of the range back then 😅

          I’m probably just going to use one 1080p monitor for now.

          I think I should have made a post asking for recommendations of “semi silent” graphics card before I selected this one.