[damien c]

I would avoid the R9 290 and 290X cards as they have issues with the VRM temps and the ram on them and also the throttling issues that they, suffer due to poor cooling on the cards.

There are pages of people of having issues on various different forums about them.


If I was building someone a gaming pc today it would have a AMD R9 280X in it or a Nvidia GTX780(ti) dependent on budget.

I would put a 4670k in it if they were not doing anything other than gaming, but if they were other stuff then I would put in a 4770k.

I would always use a aftermarket cooler on any of the Ivy Bridge or Haswell cpus because of the, thermal issues that they have due to Intel choosing to use cheap TIM under the heat spreader rather than the fluxless solder they normally use.

A air cooler will be quiet as long as you get a decent one but a AIO Watercooler will get the temperatures down, quite abit further and prolong the life of the cpu and if you change the fans out for some quieter ones than what, comes with it the performance will be just as good but quieter.

With the cases you want one that, has high airflow and try to avoid a silence optimized case as they normally, have foam around them and actually harm the components because they increase the heat in the case.