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>Especially if it didn't need 100% fan speed to get there
Yeah it was at 1200RPM max, fans go up to 1800 I believe. It's a good cooler, I think custom Intel bracket serves it well.
>cheaper to buy a lesser board and a USB DAC
I considered that also. Picrelated are available PCI/USB DAC here and they're all worse than ALC1220 in one way or another.
>save money with a more modest drive.
Well I was scared of DRAM-less and went for Samsung Pro for games since I've had their SATA SSD in the past and they were good. Kingston is the cheapest dram-less 500GB.
>Ouch.
Yeah, there's also Corsair RM750x but it costs literally the same as ASUS TUF 850W, so.