So, I ordered all parts meanwhile. Again, a very big thanks to all of you for your help! For your time and sharing your experience and feedback! Here now the final list: CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 Cooler: Scythe Kotetsu MB: ASRock H170 Pro4/Hyper RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB Kit DDR4-2133 GPU: MSI GT...

PSUs: They use the same fan, just have different profiles at higher loads - which won't matter with your use case as you won't see the higher loads :). The SP10 500's fan profile is flat through 180W load and then has a fairly gentle ramp with ~400rpm at 300W. The DPP11 550's fan profile starts a s...

I'm a long-time ardent customer of Asrock motherboards and, as far as I recall, I have used two Asus motherboards so far including a relatively recent one, Asus H97M-E, which is a part of my main rig. It's really hard to compare them objectively because I'm neither a professional tester nor benchma...

To make Asus work, you will need to use AI Suite with FanXpert3, their bios fan control is great on paper, but very buggy atm, contrary to their software which is to me the best in the market, just gotta put with the bloatware that comes with AI Suite. To make AsRock work, i think you could try wit...

Saulot welcome to SPCR!!! The Define S is a case more minimalistic than Define R5, but has its pro and cons over it, i would chose it if you have low needs for storage and dont need 5.25 bays, its more flexible if you are into watercooling down the road. Personally i like more Fractal than Corsair ...

Hello everybody, after my old rig served me well for eight years, I am going to build a new one in the next two weeks and this site was a great help to me. I already decided on all components, except for the case and PSU: CPU: Core i7-6700 Cooler: Scythe Kotetsu MB: Gigabyte GA-H170-D3HP RAM: Kingst...