How quiet are these machines?

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I've been looking at a couple of systems, here and here.

A few questions:
1. How many fans do these systems have?
2. How large are the fans?
3. Are the fan speeds easily adjustable?

The machine will be mainly used for AVCHD HD video editing, not much gaming. I want the quietest machine available so if there is another system I've missed that is available from OcUK then let me know. No limit on budget :)

My current system uses an Antec Sonata case (with Antec case fan and PSU), Zalman CPU flower cooler fan spinning at 1000rpm and a fanless graphics card. Nice and quiet :) I'd like the new system to have similar noise levels if possible.

Thanks.
 
antec nine hundred case :

Two 120mm TriCool blue LED front fans to cool hard disk drives
(doesnt identify as having speed control on these :confused:)
1 top 200mm TriCool fan with 3-speed switch control
1 rear 120mm TriCool fan with 3-speed switch control
2 front 120mm special black TriCool blue LED fans with 3-speed switch control to cool HDDs.

2 main areas to improve would be the cpu cooler and the gfx card cooling.

could also look at changing the case fans to yate loons etc.

maybe change the case to something with less fans.
 
I've got that case and cpu cooler and a single 8800gtx and have to say it's fairly noisey, even with all the fans turned right down. OCuk are doing watercooled models soon, but I think they still use the same case, so unless you disconnect the fans it'd still be fairly noisey. Thought about making your own water-cooled system?

Didn't see the option for changing cases...do maybe a watercooling kit for the cpu ans gpu?
 
Thanks for the feedback. That's made my mind up now. I'm going to build my own system so I can pick components that I know are quiet. There are quite a few options out there but watercooling is probably too advanced for me.

Things like a fanless graphics card (OK for me since I don't do any gaming) and a quiet CPU cooler will help.

I've started speccing up a suitable machine :)
 
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