How quiet is this case?
1436416
The answer to that would be quite subjective. It depends what you put inside of it. Mine is *very* quiet running a stock intel heatsink and a full sized GTX770 graphics card. Your cooling fans will contribute the most noise, generally, and the case is excellent on its own aside from any other fans you may choose to include (cpu heatsink, discrete graphics, etc)
1436417
The case comes with a large 140 mm and a medium 120 mm fan. I use the Corsair Link Kit for the CPU cooling which adds the radiator fan. The case isn't loud to begin with (barely noticable), but playing around with the settings mine becomes almost mute without thinking about the sound. As a note; the case sits on my desk, right beside me.
1436418
Hi, With the stock 2 fans that the case comes with it's very quiet, You have to also count on how much noise your video addin card makes as well. If your only going to use the cpu built in video then there's really very little noticeable sound at all. My own setup is the ( 1 ) 140 front fan I have ( 2 ) instead of the stock ( 1 ) 120 mm fan on the one side and I also installed ( 2 ) 80 mm fans in the rear right blowing right across the motherboard cpu. I also am running a Duel fan Radeon 7870 video card. With my setup I hear a low humm with the case only about 1 foot away from my right ear.
1436419
it has an open design and the sound varies depending upon how many other fans you have running. I have a corsair cs550m powersuppy and just the cpu fan running. If I'm not view a video, transcoding or compiling a program the cpu fan can be noticed but otherwise its quiet. I don't run the side fans at all as they added some noise but they may be necessary if you plan to put a GPU card in it.
1436420
It is a decently quiet case. No rattling or vibrating noises. It doesn't not have any special kind of "noise canceling" or anything, but I can tell you, it is by far the worlds best mini-ITX case.
1436421
I found the case fans to be relatively quiet. I have a Noctua NH-L9I CPU cooler and ASUS GTX760-DC2OC-2GD5 video card as the only additional fan noise. Noise measures in the 25-26 dbA range under heavy load. I have no case vibration unless the Blu-ray drive is active; HD is solid state.
193040
Not at all. I'm a huge fan of the case.Looks sleek. I do take it out of the case if I want the music to be louder.
496933
In my opinion, yes, it is relatively quiet. At least not as noisy as some others i have used.
1072268
It is very very quiet. My husband uses it right next to me daily and I never hear it. Seriously saved me from destroying his computer!
99196
It is by no means quiet. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being no noise and 10 being lightly tapping a pen on a desk, I'd give it a 7.
303771
It is quiet to me. Just a light fan noise. It is easy to forget that it is on.
923614
This card is quiet. I have an Antec 800 case, and the card isn't much louder. I'm playing planetside 2 with it, and it's not too noisey. The twin fans go a long way in reducing noise.
2216436
It's relatively quiet, louder than most laptops but not by much. And nowhere near the volume of my mechanical keyboard.
113710
i would say its a little more quiet than average ... its not silent you can still hear a noise from it but its not as bad as say a mechanical keyboard id put it a step over my laptop keyboard
513408
It is quiet on the lowest setting. I take phone calls for various clients and the phone doesn't pick up the noise. No one at my work complaints about hearing it.
1408705
It's not a lot of noise. I use a headset for work and I can hear easily without having to turn it off.
2050722
In my opinion it is very quiet. More quiet than any other fans I have had, and I am very satisfied with it.
1432799
quiet, although i have it mounted in a cabinet. I've never been aware of it.
2055778
Not too much. They are audible, by no means silent, however it's not like a plug in fan. Ill also note, my case cracked along the bottom, and the only times it's been moved were placing the pc on its side to work on it. Just saying.
1920203
It's pretty quiet, has a little hum to it, but it's not real load, hope that helps
1331167
Very quiet. I only hear it for a short time when the drives power up. A lot of the noise is the drives so get quite ones.
175485
Obviously some noise but don't consider it too noise. I'd consider it generally pretty quiet.