Hi, from a quick look up of the Silencio 352 I would suggest that it is (like many cases) heavily intake restricted. Think how the area of the 120mm intake fan compares with the area of the intake slots around the front. If you open the front door (and remove all the filters) does this help the noi...

CA_Steve wrote:Welcome back.

I'll ask the obvious question: is there no room under/next to your desk for the PC?

Unfortunately not, the available space is taken up by my NAS.

In my experience without modding it (cutting the front panel, and/or maybe the top one) there isn't much to do to improve its cooling prowess . Thinking twice, without cutting anything you could try an old trick (I did it on the venerable Antec P182), you could try to place some fans nearby the hot...

I will admit that this post is bordering on thread mining :lol: I've had the system running for about 6 months now, and since replacing the front non-PWM fan with a Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200 PWM fan, the noise in normal usage has decreased to a point where it's pretty well silent. During gaming thou...

I realised (just shy of my 42nd birthday) that I had not had a new computer since 2003 :o All of my systems over the time had been cobbled together from second hand parts or cast-offs from friends. As I want to get into racing sims with friends at work, I realised I needed a decent PC. I also needed...