Try Chieftec Smart WH-01B. It's 1mm steel, large and heavy, it has 8x5,25" bays. No holes on the left side should be quite efficient at reducing noise leak out Plus Chieftec's high quality and understated elegance all around
http://www.chieftec.com/WH01.html

You probably mean in series.

Yes, sorry I keep confusing those two

fitting a 120mm fan as a front intake instead of 2x92mms I'd say that is not an improvement. Two quiet 92mm fans push the same amount of air as one single 120mm while covering larger area - which in fact is their purpose in Solo's drive bay. My case has a single Slipstream@700RPM and two Nexus 92mm...

such a nice shinny case Yes, it's nice and shiny but also scratch and dust magnet. There is a simple trick to preserve its original looks: car wax :) A simple carnauba wax will get rid of minor scratches and preserve the shine. The sooner applied the better. I've polished mine with car wax a year a...

Does you Xonar DX work without the additional power cable? I wish I could force mine to do that!

A black permanent marker is all you need to dim that blinding blue leds on a Solo Takes less than a minute and works okay.

Have you had a look at Arctic Cooling's offerings? http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/main.php?cPath=38 Unfortunately, no SPCR article available at this time, but other sites claim it is quiet and efficient: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/700/pg1/arctic-cooling-fusion-550r-psu-introduction...

A separate chamber for the GPU isn't entirely pointless. In fact, I wanted to do this in my Solo for some time now, just to try it out. Think about it - a large, passive cooler in a wind tunnel with a slow 120mm fan pushing air. This might work! This still doesn't save this AC case. The design is si...

when i had it and an 8800GTS, the 8800GTS started overheating and artifacting. i attributed it to the case. That was perhaps a rushed opinion. My 8800GTS (G80!) has been working for two years with no temp issues. Solo isn't perhaps the most breathable case, but it is just enough :) The card idles a...

Forgive my ignorance, but what are the benefits of flipping the mobo tray and the back panel upside down?

Scythe Ninja 2 has the widest fin spacing. I haven't noticed any clogging, but my Antec Solo has air filters on intakes.

Wow! I was just toying with the idea of swapping the Slipstream for Nexus, but looks like it bests Nexus at the speed I'm currently using (700RPM) by a tiny margin! And they're practically equal at other speeds :) Great news, thanks! PS. It is really hard to find Nexus products in Poland, whereas Sc...

Yes, but I think they manufacture their own fans

Hmm... that I didn't know :/ I thought they were re-branded, outsourced fans. Well then, we can only hope the R&D division is working on an improvement

That, I think, might be asking a lot of Antec. Maybe... but they shouldn't rest on laurels. If we don't ask for better fans, no improvement shall come. I think that we all agree that TriCools are suboptimal choice when it comes to case fans. Since their representative is present on the forum, maybe...

In addition to the above ideas (I partly disagree with some of them), I would like to suggest: 1. Bundling the case with a higher quality fan - the TriCools have been obsoleted by modern quality fans. Maybe outsourcing fans from YateLoon is a good idea? 2. Making a round hole in the back instead of ...

I'm glad to see that the Solo is still the best choice in the world of quiet computing. I disagree with some opinions about future updates... Unless they change it to accommodate normal video cards (10.5") they shouldn't even bother. 10.5" isn't a normal video card - it is an oversized nvidia-style ...

:D Ces , you can be very convincing... and I can be quite stubborn :) I think you've already grasped the gist of the problem here - silence is in the ear of the listener. A cooler with three fans? That might be a bit on the loud side and it is the very scenario where the Noctua takes the lead. Furth...

But at really high thermal loads, loaded up with fans, it does not appear that there is anything out there in the air cooling realm that can pull the same weight as the D14. Have you seen the SPCR's own article here? http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1018-page3.html This shows that at really hig...

I agree with quest_for_silence . It is a bit hasty to say that Noctua is the only one. There's also the Mugen 2, which ships with a better fan: the PWM Slipstream, which is on par with the reference Nexus - see the review. Noctua's fans were disappointing in the SPCR review. And there's IFX-14, whic...

I wouldn't count on it :/ You might hear some improvement, but the real saviour for you is elastic suspension. IF there's space for that in your mini-itx case.

I agree with frenchie, there's likely to be very little clearance - perhaps too little. I was thinking about doing this but I can't even squeeze my finger between the PSU and the top of the case. A straight-through PSU would be better in a Solo, because it can be ducted to the front of the case... L...

I've already written this some time ago in this forum, but I think I need to restate this: based on my experience I recommend against buying a BeQuiet! PSU. I used to have one, B5 450W. It was indeed very quiet, quieter than its successor - Corsair HX520. But just one day it simply gave a puff of fo...

I propose a simple experiment. Take two plumbing pipes with different diameters. One large (say 15 cm diameter) and one smaller (5cm). Then blow into both pipes with the same force, while holding your hand close to the other end. Come back and report what you've found out

Thank you for this review, it was fun to read. I am pleased to see that laptop companies understand the need to offer a truly portable computer, instead of pumping inches in those silly 17" widescreen computers. <rant mode on> What's with the glossy screens? :evil: It is increasingly hard to find a ...

Great news! Scythe Ninja used to define CPU tower coolers I hope they're ready to reclaim the crown.

I have owned a case with 25cm side fan in my pre-SPCR years. It was called Tacens Algeo and was fairly quiet by gamers' standards. It was also a lot nicer than this. The main problem with it was that the 25cm fan protruded about 3cm into the case, reducing its internal width. This made it incompatib...

What has been your experience? I think people tend to exaggerate when it comes to pushpins. This mounting is actually very secure - a while ago there's been a video on Youtube showing a computer with Orochi (pushpins!) installed. The computer was then dropped from about 150cm and the pushpins didn'...

4. I don't think there are any other competitive top down coolers. Yes there are: the great Scythe coolers! :) Zipang 2, Big Shuriken and Kabuto are excellent performers, all accept 120mm fans and come with very good stock fans (better than Noctua's constructions). Oh, they're also a lot cheaper th...

Thanks everyone, your opinions were very helpful!
I think I'll skip current Atom processors and look into other solutions.

Hmmm... how do you get rid of it? I think you've already got the answer :) Bump the voltage a little, or turn it a bit down, and it's gone. :D Just do it and leave it there, what's the problem? :) Other than that, I can see you've already suspended the fans. Maybe changing them to smoother running u...