Making an 800D quiet?

TomMartin · 12 Mar 2013 at 16:25

Hi,

I'm going to be moving my components over to an 800D pretty soon.

I was wondering how quiet these cases are? And what I could do to make it even quieter? Is it possible to match the noise levels of the sound proofed 550D for example? I am going to be using very quiet components and a watercooling system.

Thankyou!

ChrisUK1983 · 12 Mar 2013 at 19:40

Mines pretty quiet and I have 5x120mm fans (including a really cheap fan drawing air through the drive bays) and 3x140mm fans running at the minute with no fan controller.

Schizo · 12 Mar 2013 at 20:05

i have just put some corsair fans in my 800d and what a difference they have made,really quiet fans.

PhysicsMan94 · 12 Mar 2013 at 21:28

If you are watercooling as you said then it should be very quiet - it'll probably average out at around 30dB under load, although that really depends on what fans and PSU you will be using.

Have you considered waiting around a couple of months for the 900D though?

TomMartin · 12 Mar 2013 at 21:38

PhysicsMan94 said:
Have you considered waiting around a couple of months for the 900D though?

At length!

If it were available now, I would likely buy it just because it has 100D's more than than the 800D... but the reality is I don't really need it. I don't game, and I have no use for high end GPU's, I just want a quiet machine, with enough QUIET cooling overhead to squeeze as much out of my CPU as possible.

Very likely I'll just have a 360 rad with a few low speed fans on it cooling the CPU. So rather than wait a few months for something I DEFINITELY don't need, I think I am ready to get an 800D which is likely to be overkill as well lol.