Okay great, that's good to know. I'll experiment with my brothers computer (which I gave to him) to see if I can make such a setup work there, before building a brand new machine for myself.

Would the NF-A12x25 PWM work well for this purpose, do you think?

I want to build a gaming system that can tackle full load and preferably overclocked CPU, but that stays silent during idle. My idea is to use the NH-D14 and a semi-passive GPU, and case-fans that turn on only when needed. The problem is, that I'm not sure what the best way to set up such a fan-logi...

Very nice post, haven't heard of this case before! How's the space for adding new fans? There's room for 3x120's at the front and 3x120's on the top but you have to remove the magnetic dust filter / noisefilter to do so (which does make quite a difference to noise output). Not sure about 140's but ...

Very nice post, haven't heard of this case before! How's the space for adding new fans?

This is my first post here - I'm very glad this forum is still active, as I want to soon build a new, quiet desktop (most important thing being that it is near silent on idle). Does the HDD's make any audible noise at all? I'm confused on this issue; some people seems to claim that one should avoid ...