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Does this motherboard come with the remote which lets you power on from shutdown? Also, would this set up need another slim/quiet cpu cooler?
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I notice that your builds have switched from Antec to Seasonic...any reason for that?
I know seasonic makes good stuff (and starts to be come cost prohibitive above HTPC wattages) but I thought the line of Antecs that you were pushing were pretty nice
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Antec Neo Eco's arent recommended for this silverstone case
if your planning to insert an Optical Drive down the road..
the fact that it has 5.9" depth make's installing the Optical Drive a none easy task...
even Silverstone themselves recommend a PSU with depth of 5.5" or lower...
Earthwatts have that spec and seasonic i link to also...
Neo Eco's again, have 5.9" depth...
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I thought you used to like the earthwatts though?
Is the seasonic quieter/has better cooling for the case?
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i liked the earthwatts when they were built buy seasonic...
the green colored ones arent...
that being said, this doesnt mean the new green colored earthwatts are bad,
but the seasonic im linking too has an 120mm fan so, i prefer that...
seasonic FTW!!
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Just placed an order for basically this system plus 4GB RAM and a 32GB SSD
Ordered the case from amazon to for free prime shipping and everything else from newegg.
Decided to splurge on an SSD (first build using one) for the system drive. Since HDD prices are so messed up right now (slashdot article just said prices have gone up 150% with the flooding and concern for price fixing), I figured I would just stick with some leftover drives I already have at home.
I'm not a hoarder--most stuff I watch will never get watched again and I go through every once and a while for some "spring cleaning" and delete tons of stuff--so it won't bother me to keep data on a 500gb drive until prices drop.