Recent content by magogian

Thanks, geofelt. Those are very helpful comments. Interestingly, the Noctua NH-D15 is more expensive than the AIO I include in my build.

Hi folks, Thank you for your time reading my post. I much appreciate any help. As background, I work and game from my home office. I have a desk with two screens (Dell P2419H). Currently, my work laptop is connected to a Dell D6000 dock on my desk. That dock uses a USB 3-C to connect my laptop...

Thanks, Lafong. I appreciate you taking the time to help me with this. I'll give the points you raised further thought. I hope you have a great day! I now need to figure out how to share my 2 monitors and peripherals (connected to a docking station) between my laptop and this new desktop . . .

Good point re: secondary graphics capability. I'll think about that more. Regarding the cooling, I plan to OC and want the cooler to be quiet. My understanding is this liquid cooler is good for OCs and is very quiet. But I didn't research many air coolers.

Thanks! My understanding is the KF drops the integrated graphics, which isn't needed when I have the discrete GPU. Otherwise, performance is supposed to be identical and KF just cheaper.

Hi folks, Thank you for your time and help. As background, here's what I'm looking to do: Build a decent, quiet gaming desktop. I have a budget of ~$2,000. Here's my PCPartPicker link: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3FnLkJ I'm trying to optimize for "quiet" performance. (I've built my last two...