After finishing up their full sized quiet gaming system Silent PC Review upped the difficulty by shrinking the system down to a Mini-ITX board. The system recommendations do have one thing in common, the quietly powerful ASUS STRIX GTX 980 but that is about the only similarity. The i5-4690K is cooled by a Silverstone Argon AR03 and powered by a fanless Seasonic X-520 PSU. Kingston HyperX Genesis DDR3-1866 has a low profile to keep it out of the way in this small build and the M.2 SSD also takes up very little room. The motherboard they chose was the ASUS Z97I-PLUS and these components are all housed in the Rosewill Legacy W1-S. They offer many alternatives for each component, catch them all in the full review.
"A quiet system in a smaller form factor is our followup to the Quiet ATX Gaming Build Guide posted in the last couple of weeks. It is another high performance rig, but still quiet enough to be just about inaudible even atop your desk. Your family will never know that you're gaming on this machine unless your sound effects are on speakers and they can see the action on your monitor."
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OOhh thanks for posting this!
OOhh thanks for posting this! 🙂
It was interesting to read
It was interesting to read how they struggled to keep everything quiet and still cool enough to prevent the GPU fans from speeding up to 100%. The site is called “Silent PC Review” for a reason.