@lodestar Interesting. I hope you'll report your experience, particularly comparing the more subjective aspects of how good or bad they sound at turn-on and under loads. What do you think of Arctic's fans at 800 rpm? @Abula Thanks for testing. NVIDIA's spec sheet shows it capable of up to 8k under c...

Only if it'll help you sleep better. Based on the video outputs, and from googling the video card, I'm fairly confident the max resolution is wrong on the Canadian site. But that looks pretty bad on a manufacturer's site.

Here's something odd. Output: HDMI 2.0b / DisplayPort (Version 1.4) https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GT-1030-2GH-LP-OC/Specification Display Output (Max Resolution): 2560x1600 !!!???! https://ca.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GT-1030-2GH-LP-OC/Specification Are they insane or just incompeten...

Remeber that coil/whine is not always a sure thing, in my experience its not only one component but combination of parts that create it. In a lot of scenarios happens in certain load or at a certain consumption, while i havent experience any with it, my testing has not been that much, i do check fo...

Atm im using MSI GeForce GT 1030 DirectX 12 GT 1030 2GH LP OC 2GB 64-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 (uses x4) HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card , as a filler on my threadripper build, but it will be ugpraded once Nvidia release the 2070/2080. But i can confirm no whine that i can hear on the MSI GT1...

Abula, it's not that you haven't been clear enough... I think that's more AMD's issue! haha So perhaps we have to go about it in another way: what is the highest frequency achieved by 4 X 16GB modules on the Asus Prime X370 Pro or Asrock X370 Taichi? And just as importantly, which models were they? ...

Sorry, I'm still not clear on whether RAM of higher capacity (i.e. 64GB total) will ever be capable of higher frequencies. Perhaps the answer doesn't even exist yet. asus do have something similar on their bios call Qtunning, is a striped down version of their windows fanxpert, but in my limited exp...

Wow, Abula, you are amazing. Sincere thanks for putting so much effort to make a great reference. Hopefully others will benefit too. So it seems the RAM and motherboard purchase need to be considered together. Surprising how different the QVL can be for motherboards with the same chipset. I'll be re...

For RAM I'll keep it simple and choose according to QVL and other user reports with whatever motherboard I end up with. I would like an easy upgrade path to 64GB, so I would prefer 16GB modules. However those seem to run at slower frequencies (than even their rating) and it's harder to find user rep...

The SODIMMs are double-sided. I know RAM was a headache for a while. If that's still true, then I'll just stick to the QVL of the eventual board. The Asus QVL doesn't show Ryzen working at high frequencies past 16GB+ RAM. Is that intrinsic to Ryzen or due to currently available RAM/boards? For the u...

Just an FYI: pcpartpicker.com has a tab for Canada and lists prices from 5 or 6 etailers. Also, you can throw quiet out the window if you opt for SLI/Crossfire cards..unless you are really careful with card selection, motherboard slot placement (airflow requires multiple slot spacing), and case sel...

You could consider the Arctic Cooling Freezer 33 Plus . This has twin fans that like the 0dB graphics cards stay off except when under system stress That is (silent) music to my ears. And at least this cooler is available and not too expensive. I don't game, so if I don't find a cheap used GPU bett...

@Abula thanks so much for your ideas! It's great to know silence/quiet is possible even with Threadripper. I was thinking about a Threadripper build too for the possibility of more RAM (laptop mentality, not wanting to be limited in long term), but it makes the entire build so much more expensive fo...

Welcome to SPCR. The short answer is yes. A decent build will have: - a PSU that's either passive, zero rpm at lower loads, silent fan at lower loads - A Gfx card that has zero rpm fans at idle/2D loads - CPU cooler and case fans that can be set in BIOS profile to vary speed with load and will be s...

Is it possible to have build a workstation with a powerful CPU and top tier video card that is silent at idle and light loads? Consider a system that is powered on 24/7, and sleeping within 2m of it. As a compromise and to keep costs down, I can accept sounds under load. Also, I absolutely want to a...