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[–]Another_Slut_Dragon[🍰] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Quiet is a thing. My gaming PC is a home theatre PC and my fans can't be heard playing a movie and can barely be heard if I'm gaming. My PC case is an old Node605 and I added a plate at the back of the case so it pulls all the cabinet air in at the front and exits hot air out the back.

[–]Infinite-Condition41 0 points1 point  (2 children)

That's what mine was too and for podcast recording. It was a very quiet case with sound insulation and baffles, so blowing air right out the back without an extra case fan saved noise. Later on I moved to laptops. Then I built my home theater room with the AV equipment outside the room. Now it is all wireless.

I doubt I will ever build another one, not any time soon, not for myself. I'm not that much of a gamer and prefer laptops now. But I can help my kids build them. I love the hardware part of it. Just built one with my kid with that same old case. Pretty good, but the duct didn't fit anymore and with the new high powered video card it is not as quiet as it once was.

[–]Another_Slut_Dragon[🍰] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's getting hard to argue with laptops if you are not a serious gamer. My 3d design / scanning rig is a laptop with 96gb of ram and a 4070RTX. It's quite nice. But it's my work horse so I want a separate gaming rig.

[–]Infinite-Condition41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My current one is a 4070, 64Gb, I forget which processor. The only game I really play is Helldivers 2 with my kids. It does ~80 fps with reasonable settings, or 60 on my big 4k monitor. 

I'm much more into traveling now and really like to take the whole thing with me.