Thread: Computer cases

Try here for reviews of quiet pc cases

Here is a link to one he has reviewed.

Dan's site will lead to Auspcmarket who are pretty good about that stuff, don't charge too much and ship to you as part of purchase price.

hth

Cheers,
Simon

you can buy them already set up-- PC's that is,,

but liquid coolings come a long way,, and is pretty much noob friendly these days. CPU, GPU, in one kit. easy.

www.silentpcreview.com


there are plenty about - the best ones are NOT cheap and typically not pretty!

I've got an antec sonata (over rated IMHO). A friend has a nexus which is great...

but your components as listed are gonna be loud, so not matter what the case, there will be substantial noise and heat!

even if you go water cooling, it is not silent as you will need a radiator somewhere which will have high flow fans on it.

if the 5 x SATA drives are intended for a RAID array, I'd advise you to go for a gigabit NAS box located away from your main PC area (a vented wardrobe, another room etc) where the noise doesn't matter and keep the PC with a smaller power supply, less fans, less HDD's and consequently a lot less heat and noise.

Thanks for the info, I'll check out the links etc.

I already have a 1TB RAID5 NAS array on a 1Gb switched network (at home ). The 5 SATA are for 2x250GB RAID Mirrored system disc and 3x160GB RAID Strip set for a scratch disc (speeds up photo and video editing and I have these discs in an existing system). I can cut the drives down to 3 (like I currently have) as the scratch drive could be replaced by a single 300GB unit, just thought I'd reuse them.

I'm also thinking I can cut back on the P/Supply, the full spec is 2xDVD burners, 2 to 4GB RAM, 512MB 2xDVI Video card, Core 2 Duo E6600 (Can't justify the Extreme - well maybe, I'll see), Intel D975 m/board, system mirror SATAII, scratch disc SATAII, 7 USB devices.

I realised I'm looking at power consumption a bit wrong and I can probably get away with a 400W P/S. I'll have to do my sums though and see what is safe.

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http://www.overclockulator.pimprig.com/#
download JUICE
see how you go---



I have "overclockulater" which is "Juice"s grandfather


actually I might do yours now for a giggle,,,

edit;

actually did mine,,,,
and came up with 395 watts

and I have only ONE HDD-------

(I do have a few fans though,,,)

edit2;

whoa!
add 4 more hdd's and a couple of 512vid cards
and bingo,,
well over 600 watts.

Hmmm I can't open that URL.

I run Powerchute Software to my UPS and my current PC (3.2GHz P4, 3xHDD's, 2xDVD burners, 128MB Nvidia, 3 very noisy fans, LAN, 6xUSB active) I can only get to about 263W power draw from the UPS but in theory it should be a lot more.

the thing to look out for with watercooling is that in general as soon as you connect it to your processor your motherboard and cpu warranty is void.

You will also need a fan outside of the case to cool the radiator so mostly the difference in noise won't be a lot.

I'd kind of worked that out. I notice Intel even state that the cooling fan provided with the chip must be used or else the warranty is void.

I'm starting to look at the Antec P180 case but there are a number of others I've still got to pull up specs on. www.silentpcreview.com has some great information (thanks EchiDna) and I'm going to get in touch with AusPCMarket when they open again next week.

I have noticed there are a number of water cooling systems which are just heat exchanges. So whilst you have no fan you have a very hot metal object somewhere with an electric pump (noise) in it. There are also a number of (very expensive and very heavy) thermally conductive heat sink cases too that would have the same draw back.