New Coffee Lake build from Jim Roseberry...

My Dell XPS 8500 (early 2012) has held up nicely. I had one PS failure, but it was just inside the 3-year warranty, so no cost. I had to replace the video card for Win10, and it's up to 32 GB RAM. Oh, and I replaced the burner with a Blue-ray one.
 
Total cost not bad at all for 6 years of service.
 
One of these days, probably sooner rather than later, it will need replacing. With one of Jim's. There's not a major vendor I would go anywhere near.
 
I interviewed with Compaq to run their quality program. The interview went poorly.  After seeing what I saw and hearing what I heard, I wanted nothing to do with them. I didn't even send the CQO a bill for my expenses. I ran hard, and ran fast. 6 months later, the CEO was gone and Compaq was HP. That was the day HP dropped off my list of suppliers.
 
And then I bought a Dell after my Sony Viao cratered.
 
In spite of using two original PC's Limited clones to host a skunkworks network in my engineering office at Motorola (PC LAN suuuuuuuuuucked).
 
Just happy to hear about your continued great experience with Purrrfect. Leaves me with a good feeling.

I wouldn't go with a completely passive CPU cooler (especially not on a CPU with six cores or more).
 
From a noise perspective (running an 8700k), there's no need to do so.
With the right CPU cooler, you literally have to put your head next to the CPU cooler to hear anything.
A condenser mic 3' away wouldn't pickup any computer noise.
 
With PS and Video with "0dB fan modes", a modern build can be *extremely* quiet.
SSDs also help in this regard...
 

Jim Roseberry
I wouldn't go with a completely passive CPU cooler (especially not on a CPU with six cores or more).
 
From a noise perspective (running an 8700k), there's no need to do so.
With the right CPU cooler, you literally have to put your head next to the CPU cooler to hear anything.
A condenser mic 3' away wouldn't pickup any computer noise.
 
With PS and Video with "0dB fan modes", a modern build can be *extremely* quiet.
SSDs also help in this regard...
 

Thks Jim , my studio is dead silent , everybody surprised , because i m a maniac in this area , sold my. Beloved vs 700 just because fan noise , using a i7 4790s passivily cooled system ...time to upgrade soon or maybe dsp ´s ...

Quick comment (and warning) on the Corsair Hydro H100i V2, which I got with my 8700K. The actual system is quiet and functional, what is NOT is the associated software (the "Corsair LINK 4"). Part of this may be the handshaking between ASUS' BIOS and the LINK 4, but here is how I found this out (and not sure if it is specific to ASUS UEFI BIOS either)...
 
After installing the LINK 4, I was doing generic tasks, and suddenly the fans kicked on like a jet engine, then kept cycling. Monitoring my CPU, the temp was spiking to over 80C and then coming back down to 30C quickly. Booting the system into BIOS gave me two shocks... first I get a message "the CPU fan is not accessible" so let ASUS fix that, then I saw the target CPU speed was 5150!!! Even folks who de-lid don't clock that high!
 
Solution... I totally disabled "Corsair LINK 4" in Services, then went back into BIOS and let ASUS bench the fans (ASUS UEFI BIOS is incredibly capable). Since then the CPU has rarely exceeded 50C, and the Corsair Hydro H100i V2 is very quiet (my computer is in a compartment, so I never hear it). I left my system at a 29% OC (in ASUS UEFI BIOS) and it handles everything I need without issues.
 
Just wanted to share that LINK 4 software is a piece of meat on my machine, the cooler is fine unto itself.