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Nice, similar build to what I am doing.

Still holding out on a GPU as well.

I went with the noctua D12L, which is super silent, and a loki 850W, which is also impressively silent.

For the mb I went with a asus b650e-i, and I am sad to say I never expected to have the loudest part of a system be the motherboard.


I never even imagined coil whine could sound like this.

I imagined it would be a high pitched sound, but in this case it almost sounds like an HDD drive, not the spinning, but the seeking rattling sounds.

It does seem to be related to the power scaling, which is more noticeable under low loads.


I am hoping for a BIOS update that mitigates this, but the issues I fear will always be there.


Sharing this here to help others. I wish I was aware of it before buying it (got the parts too far apart in time, so I didn't notice it until the return period was over ... live and learn I guess).