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Hey guys, so after 4 days of trying to decide this myself, I've decided do let you folks have your input! The choice is between a AIO cooled MSI oriented build, and a Noctua NH-15 cooled ASUS/EVGA oriented build. The specs are: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Sania/saved/R6HcCJ and http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Sania/saved/JHyhP6 as you can see they are very much alike, main difference being more fans on the NOCTUA one along with another CPU cooler obviously.
(The PCpartpicker states a larger price diff than what I will have since I live in Denmark and hardware prices are very skewed here)

So yeah, any opinions? Feel free to suggest something completely different if something i picked is pure sh*t.
note that my main concern is the H100i leaking, and the NOCTUA NH-D15 being ugly as hell.
 
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Maybe buy on ebay a cheap amd 6990 or a cheap graphic card. you will probably regret buying the gtx 980ti and realise that after only 2 MONTHS you could get the gtx "1000" :love: being 10 times better than the gtx 980ti for almost the same price with only 14Nm much colder, and an outstanding 16GB of memory (Not a clue)
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Hey Sania. Sweet build.

I woulld definitly do some changes one your build: First I would take an i5 6600k If its only for Gaming, the difference from the i7 to the i5 would be so minimal once you playing that it isnt price --> performance worthy. I would with this extra money invest in the new Samsung 950pro ssd (REALLY fast). Now the GTX 980ti is sweet but there is the new pascal release coming very soon, if you would have a cheaper graphic card lying around, it would be much smarter to invest those 600Euros on the new platform. If you like silence you should go for the Noctua cooling. I Watched some benchmarks between the noctua and the corsair. giving the price difference the noctua is around 5 degres difference from the corsair. but the corsair is about 50 euros more expensive and 20DB Louder. (I hate noisy systems) I am working on a List I think would be better bis gleich.

Edit: Are you going to do some overcloock with this build ??
 
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WIll be overclocking and will be doing video/picture editing, hence the I7, I thought about waiting for pascal too, and I might even do that, problem is that my current build i running on its 4th year and when it was bought it was already a little outdated, so i really need some fresh stuff :)
 
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I made a new list I think would fit better for having the best money performance system:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/hsn3hM

If you wont overcloock you dont need a super expensive motherboard.
the Gigabyte Z170-HD3 its a strong choice: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/best-intel-amd-motherboard,review-33054-2.html

I changed the SSD
the processor
the ram
and aswell a 750 watt PSU 850 is really killer for your sytem.

the noctua fans you chose the NF-S series those fans are more case oriented, you need to watch out if they are the right for you, if there are some thin case fans I would recommend you take more static pressure fans like the NF-P series. (They are the all around balanced) http://noctua.at/en/which_fan_is_right_for_me

Edit: Im so sorry for my english... Im right dead now I worked like hell yesterday.
 
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Fans will be for case, and also the PSU is incase i get myself a second 980TI. I dont really see why i would pick 4x4 instead of 2x8 ram sticks. And as stated overclocking and editing will happen therefore the mobo/i7. I will get an m.2 eventually, so that is also not something i worry about right now. Thanks for your suggestions, but these arent quite the ones I'm looking for, trust me when I say I've done my own research, and was simply uncertain between the two builds, and if i may have skipped something that simply is bad. :) I really want to pressure that I appreciate you taking time to put it together, but it just isn't what I'm looking for.
 
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Go with the AIO cooler. It is quieter and better performance. Corsair is a good company and won't put out a product that is just going to leak all over you computer. Noctua is a great product but is ugly as hell...so won't use their product.

If you really want an iron clad aoi cooler, check out the Predator by EK. It doesn't get much better than that. But, its about $70 more than the best thing Corsair has to offer:

http://www.ekwb.com/predator/
 
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:p ups my bad for the ram I meaned 2x4 GB was just meaning the series of ram. Nvm . So yea I would go for the MSI build but use the Noctua fans instead. and not the NF-A14 but the noctua nf-p14 pwm. and still use the super fast samsung 950 pro
 
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Maybe buy on ebay a cheap amd 6990 or a cheap graphic card. you will probably regret buying the gtx 980ti and realise that after only 2 MONTHS you could get the gtx "1000" :love: being 10 times better than the gtx 980ti for almost the same price with only 14Nm much colder, and an outstanding 16GB of memory (Not a clue)
 
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