Hello, I have been in search of silence for a while since my old Dell broke. Anyway I currently have a Shuttle (supplied by Burtie) which is fairly loud as I have stupidly sensitive ears. I have now bought a new case, motherboard, CPU and PSU. I have a few questions:
1) I have bought a 3500+ Newcastle Socket 939 CPU (I know Winchester is better but I couldn't resist at £125 including postage), it is second hand but is the full retail version with warranty. I don't think I will be overclocking but at stock speeds is this around the same as a 3200+ Winchester chip? How quiet will the stock cooling be? I don't have the money really for anything really quiet at the moment but I am just asking.
2) I have bought a Nexus 350 Watt PSU which is the silent version: (
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...tml?NEX-PSUS35)
Will this supply all the components with the power they need?
3)My 6800GT MSI is very loud, I know I can fit an Arctic cooler but I would lose my 3 year warranty and so is obviously not good, is there any way of shutting it up?
4) I have never set a complete computer up before and have never installed an AMD CPU, is there any advice tips on what I could do to make the whole procedure easy and safe? I have fitted things like graphics cards before but not fitted stuff like a CPU or a motherboard to a case.
5) I have two partitions on my 250GB Hard drive, one is for Windows and the other for Games and applications, would I only need to format my Windows partition or would I need to format the whole drive?
Anyway, here are my system specs for the PSU to handle:
Antec SLK3000B Case:
www.silentpcreview.com/article210-page1.html
MSI Neo 2 Platinum Motherboard (Socket 939)
NX6800GT 256mb MSI
Maxline 2 250GB Hard Drive with 8mb Cache
1GB (2 x 512mb) Twinmos PC3200
Audigy 2
Philips DVD+RW Drive
LG1710B TFT
Creative 5.1 Speakers
MX700
Nexus NX3500 Silent PSU
So if anyone was to answer any of these questions it would be of great help as I'm quite worried about the prospect of fitting everything due to the only motherboard I tried to fit before was into a Dell computer which I successfully burnt, many thanks, Alex