Passive, Personal, gaming, workstation build

[DMG5760]

This build is my daily driver that sits next to the beast so this will be on 24/7 used for comin daily web searching constant video rendering some 1080p gaming any genre I probably want it small for portable not sure on that yet but I would like when not heavy load it's silent and silent or near silent when under load


One thing I was looking at was getting a hp workstation with a Xeon w3550 4/8@3ghz seams fign for what I would need but it's got only a 475watt and of corse hp likes to move pins around I was thinking of putting in a 970 for the gpu

Also I was thinking of making it passively cold and the fans only turn on when he needs to

Are i3-7 good for never shuting down except to clean or would I need to go with a Xeon system

 

[smorizio]

small cases and large gpu unless it a gaming itx or micro atx case you may have heat issue or uses a lot of small fans you hear the fan noise. look at the newer cube cases that have handles on them. micro atx size. there be slightly larger then the small itx cases but you can use standard gpu and power supply and air or sealed water coolers. look at the newer skylake -e and xeon dropping this year. work pc want cpu with more cores. more cores they can render your work faster. also look into the newer pci ssd and faster m2 ssd. for the boot drive. for the gpu in a few weeks nvidia doing paper launch for pascal. faster then the older 900 and use less power. for power supply look at platinum and gold units. newer digital units from seasonic. you be able to change the unit fan profile from inside of windows on the fly. cosair also does this on there new power supply. you pay extra for the power supplys that are fanless. as it a work pc pick up two same standard hard drive and backup software so that as you make file on one drive is saves it to the other drive. also make sure you can also back up to the cloud. standard drives now can up and die...with cloud baqckup if that happens you can pull your files back. same if there a fire on flood at work. for fan noise use 4 pin fans and mb and or fan controller to set fan speed. lok at the newer fluid filled fans for low speed and sound. newer fans should be able to run at 300 rpm.

 

[Supermuncher85]

Constant video rendering, might as well go for an x99 with a 5820k or better. Any PC can be made quiet with the right parts. Put on an NH14s and replace any mechanical drives with ssd's and you are good to go.