Skylake will be out in 2nd half of this year. I highly recommend waiting for it. Haswell runs really hot because of the FIVR. I know I'm ditching my Haswell rig once Skylake is out.
Don't even start on how much I hate those review sites. The reviewer is either deaf, testing on a busy street, or both. The Bitfenix are complete garbage. They need to give me money to take them.The NF-A15 have a whiny tone at 1000rpm+ so it's recommended to limit them and overkill with the heatsink. It shines at lower rpm with good cooling, no ticks, and can drop down to 300rpm.
Noctua are one of those companies that you pay a shitload for not a lot. They're not significantly quieter than the competition and they generally don't undervolt gracefully. If I were going for a 140mm fan, I'd take some Thermalright TY series fans. They're literally identical in fan blade and frame profile to Noctua's 140mm offerings yet were significantly cheaper when I last checked. I also prefer their tone characteristics over Noctua fans. If getting the best you can absolutely get is your thing, stuff from Noiseblocker (eg. eLoops) should be a similar price to Noctua mainline products but better performing in just about every worthwhile metric.
Noctua are one of those companies that you pay a shitload for not a lot. They're not significantly quieter than the competition and they generally don't undervolt gracefully. If I were going for a 140mm fan, I'd take some Thermalright TY series fans. They're literally identical in fan blade and frame profile to Noctua's 140mm offerings yet were significantly cheaper when I last checked. I also prefer their tone characteristics over Noctua fans. If getting the best you can absolutely get is your thing, stuff from Noiseblocker (eg. eLoops) should be a similar price to Noctua mainline products but better performing in just about every worthwhile metric.So I take it that the new A series doesn't have any of the problems the the P and F series have? I might have to check them out because the P and F series were garbage.
Looking for second opinions on my current build, mainly worried if the cooling will be adequate:http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=31226947Only the CPU should ever be doing anything extremely intensive, namely video encoding/livestreaming; the GPU is for compatibility as I'll be using Photoshop, Google SketchUp, Blender, etc quite frequently and need lots of VRAM for multiple monitorsI have built and worked on several systems before but I've never done an ITX build so I'm not sure what to expect cooling wise, the Cryorig should be taking air in and the PSU fan should be pushing it out, which seems like it should work fairly well but I want to be sure cuz I put a really fucking powerful i7 in there (which I can underclock if need be)oh, and OS is Server 2008 R2
If getting the best you can absolutely get is your thing, stuff from Noiseblocker (eg. eLoops) should be a similar price to Noctua mainline products but better performing in just about every worthwhile metric.
