Suggestion for a new lowpower/silent build

[zirconi]

Hi guys, i'm planning for my birthday to gift myself a new lowpower and silent system   No vm, only the good old unraid with dockers. I want hevc hardware transcoding for being a little future proof so i think ryzen is out.

I'm planning an i3 8100 cpu with 8gb ddr4 ram (too expensive now to buy more)...but as a motherboard ? I need at least 6 sata and i prefer intel gigabit ethernet. 

A silent psu ?

How silent is the stock intel heatsink under very low load ?

 

Thanks

 

A.

[BLKMGK]

Why not buy a board with a slot for a SAS card? A flashed Perc 310 will support 8 drives!

[kizer]

Stock Intel on my Xeon was pretty Quit. However I'm a HUGE fan of the CRYORIG H7 CPU Cooler. Here's a few pics of what I replaced my AMD stock fan for. 

 

 

[zirconi]

Will take a look thanks

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[PSYCHOPATHiO]

I think the larger the fan the quieter the build will get, till you get into the industrial steel fans where things will shift into noise. 

Go with noctua fans and coolers or BeQuite products, also a high efficiency PSU is alway quite and a sound dampened case is recommended.

I have 2 builds and they have all of the above.

[HellDiverUK]

I just changed over to the setup in my signature - i5-8400, Asus TUF Z370-Pro Gaming board.  Heatsink is a Arctic Freezer 13 CO, which I have set to have the fan stopped in normal use using Q-Fan in the board's BIOS.  All case/drive cooling is via two 140mm Corsair ML140 fans in the front of the Define R5 case.  PSU is a very over-kill Corsair RM750, but it does have a fan that only runs at high load.

 

Its basically silent, and idles around 25W.

 

I was running a Ryzen 5 1600, with the stock cooler and it was quiet and fast too, just used nearly 80W of power idling - possibly due to having to disable C-states to make it not crash.