My Personal Desktop for 2014

With all excitements from the mobile devices, we always could count on something more robust.

This is a DIY system, components are mainly form NCIX.

The main objectives: robustness and quietness.

The system

Component Product details
Regular price Money Remarks
CPU Intel Core i5 4670 $244.99 $229.99   "locked"
Mainboard Asus H87M-E $104.99 $99.99    
RAM Kingston HyperX Blu Black Series 16GB 2X8GB DDR3-1600 $170.98 $139.99    
SSD Samsung 840 Evo Series MZ-7TE250BW 250G $198.99 $165.00    
HD Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB   $99.98    
Display Dell U2412M $369.99 $239.99 $278.87 from Dell
Case Corsair Carbide Series 200R   $64.99    
PSU Seasonic M12II 520W   $89.99    
MFD Brother 7860DW $418.53 $199.99 $231.66 well, I did not get the "Cyber Monday" price which is $179.99
CPU Cooler Cool Master Hyper 212 Evo
$34.98 $28.99    
Assembly comes with a "1 year limited NCIX System Warranty"   $50.00 $55.50  
(total)     $1,408.90 $1,601.88  
Optical drive LG WH16NS40 16x Blu-Ray Writer BD-R SATA M-DISC Support Black OEM   $83.98    
  USB 2.0 module       the motherboard supports 8 USB2 ports, but only 2 present

The recommendations from NCIX

Component product reason
CPU Cooler Cool Master Hyper 212 Evo
it is better & quieter than the default fan with the CPU package
Optical drive LG WH16NS40 16x Blu-Ray Writer BD-R SATA M-DISC Support Black OEM the Blu-Ray burners are all the same, but this one could burn the new M-DISK
PSU Seasonic M12II 520W it is more robust & quieter than the one I had in mind.
  Assembly well, I was not so confident to do it myself; and it comes with a "1 year limited NCIX System Warranty"

The Experiences

Time component Issue
remarks
First day system
It has no display, the PSU and CPU fans are spining...
open up the case, make sure all cables are tight and memory modules are properly seated. fixed.

last updated @ 2013.12.18