What really disapointed me in Nvidia cards was the minimum fanspeed of 40% in MSI Afterburner. Afterburner is an essential tool to overclock and silence your cards. Now you can edit the bios and go through that hassle, but personally i steer clear of doing that. Furthermore i was appalled by the idl...

Bought the Noctua NH-C12P SE14 because i couldnt go for a mugen, spacewise, and didnt want 1kg dragging on my mobo. Installating went well. It fits like a charm, very snug, very secure. When I powered i up I was appalled by the fan though. I googled some more than i did when i decided to purchase an...

So I was building this new pc :) For PSU I tried to following (in chronological order, with many runs to the post office): Corsair 1200 AX: coil whine ahoy, horrible horrible, fan ok though Silverstone Strider Gold 1200watt: noisy, nasty bubbly like sound from fan, coily whiny sound from back of psu...