How Noisy and Hot is this build

[brollend]

HI, new to the forum, and looking for some advice on a new build I am putting together. This system is for general use and medium duty gaming (WOW, etc) . I also do some video edtiing now and then. I have a 22" flat panel monitor I will re-use.

Key attributes I am looking for are quiet and cool on cutting edge hardware. I want to be able to upgrade to next generation CPU when available. I am currently running a Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz / 915 CS / Intel MB / ATIx800xl / stock CPU HS , fan / Antec 350W PS. During heavy loads, the system is very loud and heats up the room by about 10 degrees.

Proposed system:

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (or should I wait for X38?)
CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX PS
CORSAIR TWIN2X2048-6400C4 (2x1 GB)
Dual Seagaate SATA 500 GB in RAID 1 for data protection (videos / pictures)
Windows Vista Home Premium
Liteon SATA 20x DVD burner
media card reader
Cooler Master Centurion 5 case
E6750 or possibly Q6600 (will QC contribute to heat of system?)
Not sure on graphics card. Maybe EVGA 8800 GTS but have heard this card is hot.
Thinking of a ThermalRight Ultima 90 cooler (any suggestions here for quiet and cheap?)

Thanks!

 

[postmortemIA]

Qc is bad heat wise.
8800GTS runs quiet, regardless of hotness
in gaming and most windows stuff E6750 is gonna be faster. I have quadcore at work, at most there's use for 2 cores. The hard drive becomes bad bottleneck.

 

[brollend]

THanks for the feedback. How much heat does that 8800 GTS put out? Is there much of a difference in heat output if I go with a lower end card such as 8600GTS or 7900GS?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

sounds like a pretty quiet build but i think you'll want to get a case with 2 x 120mm fans

 

[brollend]

why 2x120 fans? to keep it quiet or for better cooling? Is it configured 1 front and 1 back?

Any recommendations on a decent, inexpensive case? How about the fans? Was thinking of Sythe S-Plex SFF21F.

 

[Old Hippie]

Dual Seagaate SATA 500 GB in RAID 1 for data protection (videos / pictures

Do yourself a favor and use one of those drives as a backup. Forget the RAID.

 

[brollend]

Why? What's the problem with the RAID solution. My thinking was its totally transparent so its always backed up. What's the downside?