All of your choices are good quiet components, if you spends sometime tweaking your fan control you should end up with a very quiet setup. Some minor comments, I like more Aorus Master out of the M.2 placement (i don't use near the gpu), and better heatsink/vrms, but more expensive. I prefer the Noc...

Antec is still a fine company, the problem with them is they didn't renew much and lots of competitors develop cases with improvements that imo are worth it, like Fractal Design Define cases are to me one of the best, easy to build, lots of cable pass throughs, good area for cable management (someth...

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Lets hope we see one fanless.

I still think you have something wrong with your OS, i own a GT1030 and i have never had issues playing youtube, even at 4k or 2k or 1080p60. Even with intel 605 i have no issues. Have you tried other browsers? sometimes some builds don't play well with certain acceleration. You might be able to fix...

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Did you do a fresh install when you moved to your 3600? are you running B450 with the latest bios? usually AMD is not that friendly when other gpu drivers are installed, the GT1030 should be more than fine to handle youtube with firefox.

The only dual fan RTX2060 that i would recommend is the MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming Z 6 GB Review, if you go to triple then there is also the Asus RTX2060 Strix, but neither will be the typical msrp card.

Imo the Red Devil and Strix are the worty ones on AMD.

So: in your experience, what is the most silent hard drive at idle? No mechancial will be silent, WD greens 2tb were the most quiet mechanicals i used. Even the 3tb red is very quiet, but i can still hear its seek on a quiet night. Avoid all the helium drives, they are not as bad as blacks but the ...

The Scythe Fuma 2 is a great cooler and its very capable, the NH-D15S will be slightly better but not by much, and this way you can buy whatever ram you see on QVL List, as it will not overlap with the memory. Be sure to think if you really need the 3900x as its a hot running cpu, if you do need it ...

I would recommend to avoid enclosures with mini USB3 connector, i have broken a lot of them, USB A or USB C are fine, here are a couple of recommendations,
USB A = Sabrent 2.5-Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool-Free External Hard Drive Enclosure (EC-UASP)
USB C = UGREEN USB C Hard Drive Enclosure USB 3.1

Its a very old design PSU, that still work fine, i own two, one is still on a build that i rarely use, but still performs decently, the second i gave to a friend and we swap the fan to Noctua industrial since it had the rpm range that the orginal fan had, at idle isnt bad but once you put some load ...

The BL067 fit my Fractal R5. However, they did not fit using the rubber corners unfortunately, I had to use the hard plastic corners. Thanks for sharing the issue, for me it wasnt, i honestly never though the rubber was for case fans, i always have used the hard corners that have rubber inserts to ...

question: would it be OK if I move the exhaust fan to the front, as it's less audible there? The R5 has room for 2 intakes. This is for you to test and decide, move it and see how it goes in terms of temperature, there are cases like Raven/Fortress that are design only to use positive pressure and ...

As i said, i don't own the R5 to guarantee it will fit, but i don't see a reason why it shouldn't given it fits the R4 and R6, if you find the thread/post, ill be interested on reading the issue. If you can, share your experience with the BL067, i also didn't like the tone on the Fractals around 800...

Hello. Anyone using SilentWings 3 PWM 140mm fans on Fractal Design Define R5 case? I already have the case, now I want to buy three of those fans (two front intake, one exhaust at the back), but I'm not sure if they will fit. I don't own a R5, had R4 and own R6, both can fit BL067, and the specs of...

Abula, I assume you have those 12TB Ironwolfs now? Can you comment on their noise (were newegg reviewers accurate)? Sure, i got 2 running on a Synology DS718+, the drives are ok, but i can still hear its seek, i tested with the surveillance running so the drives never slept, they are not quiet driv...

I'm looking for a bit of guidance how to improve things, while not sacrificing CPU performance by turning off the PBO feature. What i would do first is see if the Asus FanXpert2 CPU temperature is the same as your Tctl/TDie (from HWinfo), just to reference if its accurate both in idle and load, in ...

He just released the budget roundup, ill add the the first post as well so people looking for different budget can chose which one to see.

The Best Budget CPU Cooler: 7 Coolers Tested, 1 Winner Chosen

I stumble on an interesting video, maybe someone find it useful on a new AMD build, Paul's Hardware Can You PASSIVELY COOL a 12-Core Ryzen 9 3900X? According to the review, it was able to handle it but it downclock on stress test, he doesn't recommend it, but recommends to go with 3700x for it. Reme...

Like I said I just want stock speeds on everything, I just want everything to work, and be as silent as possible. i need PSU, MOBO, RAM, and FAN combo, otherwise im paranoid that something will not work with each other. This is what i would do, but as a warning i overspend a lot of the time, so its...

But I admit the LG Gram also looks attractive. It might be less powerful, but then again, that also means less noise, and it's probably still going to be way more powerful than my old Macbook. (30%-60% according to https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8565U-vs-Intel-Core-i7-2760QM/m5...

I've taken my question to the NBR forums, but no reactions there yet. So far the SPCR forum is turning out to be more useful to my quest for the perfect laptop. :(, sorry you didn't get suggestions there, i hoped they were more options there. Btw i still think the LG 17'' is your best fit, i see us...

A new king, TechPowerUp PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Devil Review Gaming noise levels with the default BIOS are incredible, only 31 dBA is a monumental improvement over the AMD reference card, making the Red Devil quieter than the majority of NVIDIA RTX custom-design cards at the same time. Once...

TechPowerUp Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Pulse Review Gaming noise levels with the default BIOS are massively improved over the AMD reference, now reaching parity with NVIDIA. If you want to go even quieter, the "quiet" BIOS delivers extremely impressive noise levels that rival even GeForce RTX custo...

One thing to keep in mind is there are lots of business oriented laptops, specially from DELL, LENOVO and HP, and in most cases these laptops are more rugged and durable laptops, backed with better warranties, but at the same time they are no thin or quiet as a standard for this segment. LG breaks t...

I been a fan of Seasonic for a long time, but a manufacturer that has done very good PSU over the last decade has been Superflower, its a brand that its not that well known in the US, but has been the OEM for some resellers like Rosewill, and more recently EVGA Supernova line. I stumble on a review ...

TechPowerUp ASUS Radeon RX 5700 XT STRIX OC Review On ASUS NVIDIA STRIX cards, only the "quiet" BIOS has the fan-stop capability; on their AMD 5700 XT STRIX OC, both BIOSes shut down the fan in idle, which is much better. Gaming noise levels are massively improved over the AMD reference, now reachi...