Quietest case?

Zalman GT1000 does look impressive but £260... proberly that 5mm thick alu keeps the noise at bay....

Wonder how thick the alu is on the Lian li...possible the dual dampening panels will be equaly as effective at cutting the noise, would proberly add accoustic padding also.
 
Borg HPC Classic = no fans, no noise (passive air)
Zalman Reserator + any case of your choice = no fans, no noise (passive water)

Both heavy on the budget, both better that the GT1000.

But then sufuk is looking for quietest - not totally silent.

My first surgestion (at mininal cost) is buy some yate loons for your Praetorian.
7v mod them (or use a fan controler is electric's isn't your thing) and see the differance!

If still noisey - look at the graphic card and psu

Which ever new case you might buy - if you fill it with noisey hardware it will be loud
 
shadowscotland said:
Borg HPC Classic = no fans, no noise (passive air)
Zalman Reserator + any case of your choice = no fans, no noise (passive water)

Both heavy on the budget, both better that the GT1000.

But then sufuk is looking for quietest - not totally silent.

My first surgestion (at mininal cost) is buy some yate loons for your Praetorian.
7v mod them (or use a fan controler is electric's isn't your thing) and see the differance!

If still noisey - look at the graphic card and psu

Which ever new case you might buy - if you fill it with noisey hardware it will be loud
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cant agree more, noise components = noisy pc

foam padding could help, and suspending the hdd

btw stephan, i added to your trust. :)
 
Yeap definatly agree, its whats inside your case that makes the racket ;)

Thats why I suggest Japanese gup hdd silent boxes to kill the hdd white/grind and general hdd noise. Thermalright passive graphic heatsinks... and the New Scythe heatsink thats the biggest passive heatsink currently out there...

Think that would do the trick proberly only need 1 or 2 120mm fan blowing cool air in and towards out should be ok ;)

Thats my next plan anyhow
 
I think the main point is to go far a case that doesn't have fan holes everywhere, while these my be great for cooling they are also inefficient and do very little to block-out noise.


I have recently built a well spec'd pc (q6600 @ 3.2ghz, 8gigs ram, 3650 gpu - adding an R700 based gpu in the summer. And it was obvious that my current case wouldn't be able to handle the increased heat output, the current cases on the market weren't much better unless they had fans everywhere which would be load. Quietness is as important to me as performance - I need both!

I modified a current case I own, an Antec BQE (a discontinued case similar to the Sonita) by taping up both the front and rear fan cutouts. I compensated this with two 120mm fans in the bottom of the case which are controlled by the cpu fan via the motherboard (if that makes sense). Also by doing this it has meant that I have gotten away with having a PSU fan. I then using sound proofing I have covered everywhere that I can, and also segmented that case with high density form blocks to further absorb/ contain the noise.

It works really well and when the computer is idling it is silent (as in you get tell that it is on, unless you look at the lights). When fully loaded it is still quieter than the previous components in that case. I'm going to do a write later in the week or the weekend of what I have done.
 
Chimerical said:
Lian-Li PC-S80

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-068-LL&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=187

Apart from some £500 Zalman, this is the quietest case out there.
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the S80 is perhaps one of the worst cases I have built into. the cooling design is err... unique and simply does not work like lian li thought it should.
If you have any kind of high end hardware it will cook it alive. and to be honest... its not all that quiet


Peg said:
Zalman GT1000. I have had a few cases including Lian Li V2000, PC 25B, Silverstone TJ05 (worse case I have had by a country mile) TJ09 (rattling panels) and some of the old Coolermasters. The Zalman GT1000 is a country mile better when it comes to build quality and silence.
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The GT1000 is one of my all time favourite cases, it is perhaps the best built case ever. However... I wouldn't say it is as quiet as that. ( don't get me wrong though it is pretty good)
It can be made quiet though. The stock 120mm fan is very loud and the hard drive cage and mesh adds noise to the front 2x 92mm fans
the hard drive cage is very good though!


At the moment, in terms of silence I would have to say the original cosmos is up there.

If you either reduce the speed of the 92mm fans, or remove them altogether from a Silverstone TJ-07 you have the basics for a very very quiet water-cooled system, dare i say it... near silent :O

smogsy said:
coolmaster 832 has 12x 120mm fans holes to its very quiet even with all my hdss acessing and dvdrw and fan on 100% constant
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okayyyyyyyyyy i think you are being serious.


As others have said though, the case is not the end all be all of a quiet system. HDD's are perhaps the biggest noise maker. You probably wont notice just how loud some models can be when sitting idle... until you turn them off.

Second would be power supply. anything using smaller fans such as tagan, PCP&P etc tend to be loud enough to make every effort you make to quieten the rest of the system pointless
best bang for buck on the silent side of PSU's has to be coolermaster or Corsair.


just for the record... i didn't really find the P180 range that quiet either :S
 
R B Customs said:
If you have any kind of high end hardware it will cook it alive.
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Agreed on that point. You're not exactly going to fit a Nuclear Power Station of a Pentium 4 processor in that case without it reaching Sun-like temperatures. Airflow probably isn't great either; if I had the case I'd run it with a single exhaust fan and have every component passively cooled, thus having no airflow.

The point of these cases is hardly with high-end hardware in mind. A 45nm Wolfdale or lower-end Yorkfield would be absolutely fine, so would a dual-slot GPU (that isn't a GX2).
 
Chimerical said:
Agreed on that point. You're not exactly going to fit a Nuclear Power Station of a Pentium 4 processor in that case without it reaching Sun-like temperatures. Airflow probably isn't great either; if I had the case I'd run it with a single exhaust fan and have every component passively cooled, thus having no airflow.

The point of these cases is hardly with high-end hardware in mind. A 45nm Wolfdale or lower-end Yorkfield would be absolutely fine, so would a dual-slot GPU (that isn't a GX2).
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yea, I have found this across the board with most lian li cases...

they are all nice, very well made cases, and look class too. But when it comes to cooling * stand back lian li fans this is gonna hurt* they are generally very poor, they seem very old hat in their cooling methods. great if you have abut £400's worth of hardware inside but not too good for high end stuff like you would think they were designed for :(

Lian Li V1000 / V1100 has to be one of the poorest cooled cases of the lot IME

it is a shame as they can produce some very sleek looking stuff :)
 
Well, the HDD cooling of the Lian-Li PC-A70 highlights this. Four fan's to cool two HDD cages and provide airflow into the case is pretty archaic compared to the Silverstone TJ-09's central fan implementation. Lian Li's also usually have no cable management whatsoever, at least the TJ-09 allows you to place cables behind the motherboard tray in pictures I've seen.

Lian Li cases are designed to sit there and look nice, the V2000 series is BTX for christ sake's, things like space aren't really a selling point as there are loads of big cases around. What Lian Li do really well is offer a comprehesive range of cases for all budgets and all users. Silverstone attempt this, but don't pull it off quite so well.
 
The only thing with the TJ09 is the build quality. The mesh grill on the top of mine was loose and rattled. The side panels are too flimsy for a case of its size and suffer from resonance that is difficult to sort out. The middle fan is a bugger to change and even when reducing the voltage still makes a noise. If you could cross Silverstone design with Lian Li build quality then that would be an ideal case.
 
Always hear oddly enough that Akasa Eclipse and Lian Li/Silverstone cases do sometimes have the odd rattle, but it does look like some lian li cases designed for silence are adding special noise dampening parts in there cases :)

Hopefully more do this in the future....
 
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