Selecting components for mATX gaming system

[jackinbox]

Hi
Following is the list of components I have selected for my new gaming rig. I'm hoping this to be a silent machine. Any suggestions to improve the noise level and performance would be great

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  CPU : Intel Core i7-4790K
  
  Motherboard : ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VII GENE
  
  RAM : HyperX Savage DDR3 2400MHz 16GB
  
  Graphics Card : EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Super Clocked
  
  PSU : [strike]Cooler Master G650M, 650W PSU..[/strike]
  
  Updated Cooler Master V650S, 650W PSU
  
  SSD: Intel® SSD 530 Series 120GB 2.5"
  
  HDD : Seagate® Desktop SSHD 1TB
  
  Case : BitFenix Prodigy M
  
  CPU Cooler : Corsair H75 Hydro Series
  
  Extra Fan : Corsair AF120 Quiet Edt. 120mm
  

 

[Moonstick2]

What resolution will you be playing at?

You seem to have fallen into the usual trap of spending high on CPU/RAM/GPU and then skimping on the PSU because it's 'just a power block'. It's Tier Three on the PSU list and so out of place compared the rest of what you're getting.

It's not going to be silent. It'll be quieter than some, yes, but not silent. If you really want silent you have to scale back some on system performance. If it were easy to build silent i7/980 gaming rigs a lot more people would be doing it.

 

[jackinbox]

What resolution will you be playing at?

You seem to have fallen into the usual trap of spending high on CPU/RAM/GPU and then skimping on the PSU because it's 'just a power block'. It's Tier Three on the PSU list and so out of place compared the rest of what you're getting.

It's not going to be silent. It'll be quieter than some, yes, but not silent. If you really want silent you have to scale back some on system performance. If it were easy to build silent i7/980 gaming rigs a lot more people would be doing it.

Hi.. Im playing currently at 1920x1080 . I did not know about the PSU. Thanks for that. And I dont mean dead silent PC. just quieter the better. I also do some robotics simulations which is quite resource intensive.

 

[Moonstick2]

A 980 is major overkill for gaming at 1080p. You'd be much better off with a 970 (even if you eventually go to a 1440p monitor it won't be far off a 980).

"Gaming" motherboards tend to be style over substance. And although personally I go for Asus boards, the RoG series do seem to have a few more duds than normal. What motherboard features do you actually need?

Normally an i7/16 GB RAM would also be expensive overkill for 1080p gaming. Whether it makes sense from a cost point of view depends on how much time you foresee it saving during simulation runs. Certainly though the i7 will only be worth it if the software responds well to >4 cores and hyperthreading.

 

[jackinbox]

A 980 is major overkill for gaming at 1080p. You'd be much better off with a 970 (even if you eventually go to a 1440p monitor it won't be far off a 980).

"Gaming" motherboards tend to be style over substance. And although personally I go for Asus boards, the RoG series do seem to have a few more duds than normal. What motherboard features do you actually need?

Normally an i7/16 GB RAM would also be expensive overkill for 1080p gaming. Whether it makes sense from a cost point of view depends on how much time you foresee it saving during simulation runs. Certainly though the i7 will only be worth it if the software responds well to >4 cores and hyperthreading.

Ok then I will select MSI GTX 970 with 4 GB . As for the simulations it requires very good multitasking capability. Which mother board and CPU would you recommend ? The OpenCV simulation I run seems to make my i5 nearly crawl. Anything better would be better

 

[Moonstick2]

It depends on your budget and what motherboard features you need and want.

I'm not familiar with OpenCV, but have you investigated why it crawls on your i5 (and which version is that)? Checked whether it is using all cores or just one? Checked RAM usage? Looking on the internet it doesn't always seem to multithread, and if your simulations are only running on one core an i7 won't help you at all. Here's an article talking about recompiling it (for Linux) to use multiple processors. It might be that you can do something similar for your current system and get far better performance, then you'll be in more of a position to judge the worth of an i7 and 16 GB.