Quiet PC Serenity Nano

An excellent quality fully-built quiet PC, using best value high performance components installed in the Cooler Master Elite series. This high-specification machine uses Intel’s H97 chipset and comes with a two-year fully inclusive warranty.

Our thinking behind the Serenity Nano is to give the customer the best possible options in a small package. Built around the excellent Cooler Master Elite chassis, the Serenity Nano can take on the role of virtually any type of PC. It is small enough to be classed as a media PC, while capable of being a monster gaming PC, as it can accommodate large graphics cards. It can also hold a multitude of HDD/SSDs in various combinations. For more information, please visit the product page for the Elite here.

Gaming - The best quiet / performance balance

Any air-cooled PC will always be a compromise between quietness (arising from careful cooling design) and performance (which produces heat). This situation affects gamers even more than most, because of the latest and greatest processors and 3D graphics cards tend to be the ones which run the hottest and which have the loudest fans on them.

We’ve done a lot of development work in this area to bring you the best of both worlds - virtually silent running (especially when the PC isn’t being used for gaming), and extraordinary gaming performance with great cooling design which gives total safety and reliability for your precious CPU and GPU.

Top Performance and Reliability

The PC itself doesn’t compromise on performance, and can be built pre-installed with up to 16 gigabytes of memory and an Intel Haswell (4th generation) CPU. Famous for their excellent performance/value balance, the Core i3, i5 and i7 processors are all available for this system, so just choose the best CPU that suits your needs. Regarding memory, we recommend a minimum of 4GB (8GB preferred) to ensure that the machine has plenty to spare and will always offer excellent responsiveness even when running multiple applications simultaneously.

Clean Build™ Promise

The price of many pre-built PCs these days is often supported by cash kickbacks from software companies who pay hardware manufacturers to pre-install limited or trial versions of their software and then hope that the customer pays to upgrade to the full version. The downside to this approach is that the new PC comes pre-loaded with a lot of “junkware” which bloats the operating system and can cause severe performance degradation.

Here at Quiet PC we believe that customers have every right to expect the best possible performance from a brand new PC, so every system we build comes with our Clean Build™ promise. We install the operating system (if you order one), motherboard drivers, OS updates and your choice of Internet security - that’s it. You won’t be pestered by pop-ups or nag screens and you can get on with using your new PC immediately without having to uninstall lots of junkware first. Your new machine will boot in super-quick time and will stay running quickly for many months and years to come.

Storage considerations

When specifying your new PC’s storage options using our system configurator below, you will be offered a choice of drives which vary by price and capacity. There are two primary types of storage. A conventional hard disk drive (HDD) offers huge storage capacity for a low price, but it won’t be especially fast and it will generate a certain amount of running noise since it contains a constantly-rotating spindle. A solid state drive (SSD) on the other hand, offers tremendous speed and absolutely silent operation, but it will cost more than an HDD for any given capacity.

So if you need a lot of storage space (for videos or large quantities of digital photos for example), then we would recommend an HDD. On the other hand, if you prefer silence and speed (especially boot-up speed), then an SSD would be a better choice. Of course you can have more than one drive, so you could have the best of both worlds by choosing one of each! And finally, we do offer the option of enclosing HDD(s) in an acoustic enclosure called a Smart Drive - this will significantly reduce the running noise of a hard disk.

Free hardware support and fully inclusive warranty

We offer free hardware technical support for as long as you own the machine. This support covers any hardware query or problem, including advice on maintenance and upgrades. We regret we can’t offer software support or training so we would recommend contacting the software vendor in this instance.

Our hardware warranty runs for two years and is “collect and return” meaning that you don’t need to worry about getting the machine back to us - we will instruct our courier to collect it from you on a day of your choosing, then after we have checked and repaired it we will send it back to you by express courier at our expense. In addition, unlike many other PC suppliers, we have an “open-case” policy which means you are free to open the machine and perform your own minor modifications or upgrades without worrying that your warranty might be affected.

PLEASE NOTE: There is a section on the configurator below named “PCI Express Slot”, which is because the motherboard only has one PCI Express slot. At this point you can choose any of the components shown. If the PC is to be used for gaming then we highly recommend choosing a graphics card, preferably the NVIDIA 650 Ti or higher. Of course if the system is not to be used for gaming then feel free to choose any other component type, or just select “None”. If anything other than a graphics card or “None” is selected we will presume you would like to use the Intel HD4600 onboard graphics.