tizmeinnit

Stock coolers are great until you start actually pushing your system.I use stock on my media player and its silent but the system does very little

On my main system when gaming or encoding and the GFX and CPU starts warming up the fans of course start spinning up then the stock coolers are no longer the silent dream they were when idling also using a better thermal compound makes difference

The 300D allows for a 16 cm cooler the Artic cooling freezer 7 is under 13 cm these fans also allow you to direct the air flow.

Another point is going with one stick of ram would you not lose bandwidth dual channel and all that

I always configure my machines for multi tasking. SSD for operating system then various other HDDs for other tasks for example if you were to run a virtual machine you would want it running off a different HDD to the one you run your game off. I have 4 HDDs as well as the SSD so I can fully utilise my pc and push everything 100% while running various tasks efficiently and effectively