You might check out the pricing of the be quiet! Straight Power 10 550CM. It's an always on fan, but it'll be inaudible. Extra soundproofing - about the only uncertainty will be your hard drive. What's the make and model? I will check it out. Seems like onlye the 500w CM version is sold here. I thi...

I don't know about the Dell. No problem, I googled some more and it seems like people that get a blurry picture with any 4k monitor on 1080p just has the wrong settings, for example with scaling in Windows. "What are the other vendors available to you?" I live in Sweden but we have quite a lot of o...

Another benefit of Nvidia over AMD with the current gen cards: AMD doesn't idle their memclock when you have 2+ monitors attached. So, that adds significantly to idle/2D power use. 4k gaming: Heh. These are probably two of the very few games that may run ok with just a GTX 960. Most everything else...

Welcome to SPCR. For similar performance but a quieter card that uses less power, I'd replace the R9 380 with an MSI GTX 960 Gaming. What are your apps/games/monitor resolution? Thank you, I will change that. My main monitor runs at 1920*1200 and my second monitor at 1920*1080. I only play at my ma...

Hi! This is my first post here on SPR. I have build many computers and know all the basics. But I have not build many silent PCs (just one, a HTPC). Now I want to build a quite powerful PC and then it is more challenging to make it on a low noise level. I don't need a totally silent PC. I plan to ov...