chaosblade
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That wouldn't be my first choice of case in that price range (or second, or third...), but I guess since you're not actually building it will probably be fine.Wedge7 said:Antec Nine Hundred II V3 Gamer Case $129
Intel Core i5-2500K Processor, 3.30GHz w/ 6MB Cache $229
Gigabyte GA-H61M-USB3-B3 w/ DDR3 1333, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, PCI-E $84
Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Quad Channel Kit (4 x 4GB), Cerulean Blue $109
Seagate 2TB Barracuda Green SATA III w/ 64MB Cache $189
LG Super-Multi 22x DVD Writer, SATA, OEM, Black $21
eVGA GeForce GTX 570 SuperClocked 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-E w/ Dual DVI, HDMI $369
Antec EarthWatts EA 650W Power Supply Green $84
Final cost $1282
And H61/2500k combo wasn't a very good buy, if you don't have any intention of OCing you could have gone with a 2500 and it would have been fine. But you paid extra for a overclockable CPU (2500k) but bought a budget board that can't overclock it.
Another problem with that motherboard is that it only has two RAM slots. You paid for 4 sticks, so I don't know how they are going to work that out. Ship you the extra two sticks separately? They shouldn't have even offered it as an option if your board doesn't support it. 16GB is also totally overkill, 8GB is more than enough to last until you'd be ready to build again (at which point DDR4 will be around).
Not sure about the quad channel thing either, might be fine, but your CPU only supports up to dual channel mode. Not sure if different RAM supports different channel configs (so you may not even have dual channel support, meaning slow RAM) or if it's just advertising.
Sounds like it's just a bad fan, probably the bearings. Similar issue with my GPU fan, it's ridiculously noisy. Might end up upgrading it earlier than planned because of that.InfiniteNine said:Nope to all of those. I spinned it myself while the PC was off and it makes that noise when it spins.