Ok, so I ordered my first computer and I should get the parts friday. I am a little nervous the I f&%$ed with choosing the parts. This is what I ordered.
I am afraid the 680 will overheat if I overclock it, or it will be bottlenecked by the i5. I went to the Tiger-Direct store and the guy said an i5 3570k actually will bottleneck a 680. Please help!
An i5 won't bottleneck your gpu by any noticeable amount. If it does, what will you loose....1/2 frames per second. The tigerdirect guy either: a) didn't know wtf he was talking about or b) was trying to upsell you.
That looks look a perfect little build, and the 3570K is a very strong processor especially when it comes to gaming, even 2 680's wouldnt be able to bottleneck it if it was Oc'd a little.
my 680 classified is relitively quiet untill it ramos all the way up which it rarely does, unless i manually do it, it also dosnt run too hot, im not sure about the signature 2 but it shouldent be too bad
It won't be horrible if you have a halfway decent case made out of actual metal with a reasonably thick side panel window. Just don't go leaving the side off, and don't expect it to be whisper quiet and you'll be okay. If you do overclock it and it ramps the fan up to about 80-100% then you should expect around 32 dB. That is pretty loud, kinda like one of those electric heater/fan towers running in the background. With most ordinary things you should expect the fan speed to remain at around 20-25 dB which is just loud enough that you could discern it over your case fans, but not so loud that it should pose any major noise problems to your speakers. And with most GTX 680s, they just suck at overclocking anyway, so I wouldn't try for very much, aside from the fact that the reference cooler is horrible at cooling overclocked cards without being noisy.
Linus had a similar build with a Titan instead of a 680. His reason for acoustics and temps. If you're concerned maybe try that? Though to be honest, im sure you'll be fine as I believe there is a vent that feeds air directly to the gpu's intake.
The case is a Bitfenix Prodigy which has exhuast holes where the graphics card sits, so should that help at all? I feel stupid for not looking at this before hand.