I just bought a Fractal R5 and ASUS STRIX GTX 960 - the R5 does come with the one fan in front, and it's super quiet.

I haven't had a chance to do heavy-intensive gaming on the 960 yet - for day-to-day use the card's fans are completely off, or extremely low so it's also silent or quiet.

-Ted

Thanks for the good advice, people! I finally got all my parts delivered last weekend, and have had this baby running smoothly for a little while. In the end I couldn't get the Scythe CPU cooler at a reasonable price in Canada, so I switched to the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO. The 212 is a huge beas...

Thanks guys, this input has been super valuable. :D In the end I'm planning to go with Fractal R5 case Intel Core i5-4690K Scythe Kotetsu 79.0 CFM CPU Cooler MSI Z97S SLI Plus ATX LGA1150 Motherboard G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (extra RAM since I do photoshop/gimp fairly...

Thanks, Steve. I have 2 24" 1680x1050 monitors, bought ages ago. A nice new 28" would be great but I haven't been able to justify the purchase with these 2 still working so well. Maybe once I have the final price list of everything else together I'll price new monitors. Probably nothing crazier than...

Hi experts, I've built my fair share of pcs, but have been out of the trade for about 5 years, also this will be my first time aiming for silence as a high priority. I'll be moving over my 120gb ssd drive and 2tb wd green from another pc. After looking at some of the gaming builds on this site, I pu...