What do you guys think about my PC build? I want to know I'm making the right choices for the parts before getting them all and being disappointed when it's not what i wanted it to be. It's not supposed to be a super gaming computer but I want it to perform for the money.
Why the 2.5" hard drive? The S340 has space for two or three regular 3.5" hard drives. Also, you could get a nice air cooler for the price of the Kraken, and it might actually perform better. Switching the cooler to a Noctua NH-U9B and the hard drive to a 1TB WD Black comes in at just about the same cost.
Thanks. Any other suggestions that would give me the same performance as the Noctua? I can't really get around the colour of it and I do want to make the system look as nice as possible but if that's my best choice, I'm obviously not going to sacrifice performance.
I don't want anything too fancy. I'm trying to use mostly a black and white colour scheme with the white NZXT S340 and the black and white Gigabyte motherboard. But I'm not going to choose form over function.
I'll consider it. I still don't have all the money I need anyways so depending on how quickly I can make it I might wait a little longer and get better parts.
I think I want to stick with the AMD CPU simply because of the price and from what I've seen it's pretty close to the i5. And how does the Cooler Master compare to the Noctua? Because if they perform almost the same I would like to change to the Cooler Master for the looks.