The P183 is just so ugly, especially with the door open... With door open it's not anymore just plain ugly but fugly. Antec must have hired designers from Thermalsh*t considering direction they're taking look of their cases. WD Caviar Black drive which I hear are noisy buggers. Nothing out of ordin...

I think the 4870X2 is likely to be the most significant source of noise that you will have to deal with. It's surely biggest heat source. It produces 70W of heat for doing nothing (~ same as that Nehalem CPU under full load) and 260+ W under load. If that heat isn't kicked out from case directly it...

Hard HDD mounting so HDD noises will be all over the place.
http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php ... 929&page=4
Back to the drawing board Thermaltake...

What about cases like the new B10 that feature 2mm acoustic foam on the side panels? Not enough, sure, but it's something. That 2mm is thickness of side panel, that lining Akasa Paxmate is mighty little over one millimeter thicker than that. Also new Lian Li's HDD tray system doesn't look good, met...

PC-70 is clearly old outdated design with small fans and lot of horribly restrictive fan vents in need of serious cutting. Compared to those hard HDD mounting to cage is almost minor problem. (and not much depth for long graphics card) V2x10 is lot more modern design and V2110 has also acoustically ...

you could add mass and dampen down the alu side panels and also block some of the HDD noise using Acoustipack. I think it's fair to say that something like Acoustipack should be the icing on the silence cake in most situations... Exactly, mass damping would need to be awfully heavy if for example H...

Is the harddrive mounting in it a good solution? For one thing HDDs are spaced very tightly with plastic trays blocking airflow further. (and use of lowest 5.25" bay would block any remaining HDD cooling airflow) Also as all these now so fashionable plastic trays/caddies seem to always wrap tightly...

Any thoughts on these models or should I just stick to the good old Antec P182. If that's your starting point and what you want is more space then A71 is Lian Li you want to look. I've myself had it for some time. Should have done it earlier but I try to get something written about that project int...

And 2mm thick side panels I think that's been around for some time in V-serie cases. Indeed. http://lian-li.com/v2/tw/product/upload/image/B10/pc-b10-27.jpg I wonder how good would this case be for a quiet PC? Maybe those thick side panels and noise absorption foam (albeit not very thick) could hel...

2) The bottom fan grill under the psu can't be removed with ease. I plan on sitting the case on a carpeted ground. Is it ok to do so? As for cleaning is it ok to simply turn the case on its side every now and then and vacuum? Do I have to worry about long term temp issues with my psu? You don't wan...

Xbit did mention the noise of the Black in the conclusion: And some users may not like the clacking of its briskly heads. I don't know what "briskly" heads are but I wouldn't want them clacking in my PC. Neither do I.... and I have four of these drives. One had slightly less vibration than others w...

Just remember to make difference between y and Y... Never capitalization made so much difference... :lol: If you think that's big difference guess what's the difference between AGM-86B and AGM-86C? Answer: About 150 kilotons :here. Hdparm has different meaning for capital and lowercase of most lett...

P.S.: Btw, if that utility does what it think it does (parking the drives), then it seems a bit "harsh"... Usually parking drives requires a reboot for them to come on-line again... No? Just remember to make difference between y and Y... http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_use_of_Harddisk_Pow...

I used it with air and it was very quiet and efficient but I could hear the drives (which was the only downside I found with the case). That HDD mounting look is actually misleading. While there looks to be foam/rubber insulations strips for them HDDs are still secured using screws conducting vibra...

but even more interesting is the little spec picture they have in the middle, it lists two front 14cm fans and one rear 15cm fan! Could have some interesting quiet cooling possibilities And be as quiet as car's engine with hood open. Lian Li has other actually silencing friendly cases. Look for a c...

tyeh26 wrote:why do PSU calculators add somewhere around 25W per drive?

Because it's Extreme BS calculator for selling overshooting PSUs.

Use this instead:
http://web.aanet.com.au/SnooP/psucalc.php

"DISK BOOT ERROR, INSERT SYSTEM DISK BLAH BLAH BLAH" Means BIOS can't find any drive with OS boot loader. Also in the running is that I've had a mold problem in my apartment (recently gotten rid of) and the mold infected my computers and poisoned them with evil mold spores. While spores can stay in...

Intel Burn Test or Thermal Analysis Tool would probably give entirely different readings...

What I saw some slides/photos in thread (seems to be now removed) of one forum weight is 14kg so that would mean steel frame. EDIT: Looks like official specs are up: http://forum.coolermaster.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10923 It's aluminum after all but weight (13.25kg) means it's rather thick aluminum....

3kg? WTF... Do they really expect that heavy cooler is good for use with motherboard vertically? Already PC "gaming enthusiasts" are doing their part in killing PC game markets by hyping necessarity of multiple graphic cards so do they have to do same for CPU HSFs? If they want heaviest cooler for ...

I got this one along Zalman ZM-MFC2 for Lian Li A71 built project. I was expecting it to be "digital controller" not compatible with all fans like Aerocool's older Coolpanel II which can't lower speed of some fans much any and makes them keep high frequency "electric" whining or ticking noise. (that...

92mm fan... which probably leaks big part of airflow elsewhere than toward heatsink... Now why I'm not expecting any serious performance? Seems a slightly eccentric design, but is the first cooler I've seen for Intel Core i7 CPUs. Thermalright will release LGA1366 mounting kit when Nehalem is releas...

Wouldn't Scythe Kaze Jyuni/Slip Stream be better? http://www.silentpcreview.com/article832-page3.html#SS-M http://www.silentpcreview.com/article739-page2.html#yateloon Looks just about best performing fan and also price is often very good. (ordered whole bunch of them among other accessories from Ca...

i still love my CMStacker. Do they still make them? yes i've taped up all the holes. That's the starting position for my case change project. Original STC-T01 might be still made but looks like better RC-810 isn't made anymore. (and was always rarer) With silent parts it would be silent but with ma...

Well... My first impression of Lian Li A71 is this: This isn't any "drop parts in" case as far as silencing is concerned. For spacious high performance PC case design has some very nice silencing potential but "stock condition" leaves most of it unrealized. Clearly biggest flaw from silencing aspect...

Is it going to be fileserver or just workstation/gaming PC with lot of HDD capacity?
HDDs alone won't produce much heat but if it's gaming PC with high end graphic card that'll change things.

The Coolermaster HF 932 looks intriguing... My only concern is how open it is - seems like that could let some extra noise out of the case. Very open: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/cases/Cooler_Master_HAF_932/index_2.shtml Won't leak just some extra noises but any noise components make. It ha...

Antec Atlas or Titan would probably work though neither is especially good looking. Then there's Akasa Eclipse, which looks better... Atlas can't even take E-ATX mobo and Titan looks like it has some plastic rails for attaching devices and PSU is on top getting warm air. http://www.antec.com/produc...

That pretty much means all 5.25" design... and those aren't really good for silence, especially Antec 900's holes everywhere design doesn't differ that much from plain open frame. And probably neither are those IcyDocks quiet. (at least Lian Li put there 12cm fan) Lian Li has many mid towers with 4/...

Not much spacious silencing friendly cases around when many makers concentrate to making colourful trash and rest to "thousand and one holes/remove anything more and you'll have plain open frame" cases. Lian Li has some spacious silencing friendly cases: http://www.lian-li.com.tw/v2/en/product/produ...