My case isnt that good, just got it out of a computer shop, has no name are anything. Is there cases out there that some way help fans give of less noise? :?
Think ill go with that Thermalright Ultra-120.
Just thinking would i just be better making the move to water cooling?? 8O
Fry's has the Antec Solo on sale about once a month. I bought one for $40 after rebate, and a second for $20 after rebate. Into those, I am putting a Yate Loon 120MM exhaust fan ($3), replacing the 120mm Ultra V PSU fan with a Yate Loon ($3), replacing the stock HSF with Cooler Master Hyper T ($30), add a 92mm Scythe up front for intake ($12), and a Scythe mini kaze on the northbridge ($3).
Each fan will be at-or-less than 20dba, and should be fairly quiet when all is done. That's about $80 ($30 case +$3 +$3 +$3 + $12 + $30) overall in case+fans for a cool quiet system. I've already installed the CPU cooler (OCing an E6300 to 3Ghz), and the Northbridge cooler. Other fans are being delivered today.
People always talk about the overclockability of C2D, but the low power consumption is equally important. When you combine the low power consumption of C2D with the current round of heat-pipe+120MM HSF combos, you get some very quiet high-powered computing!
Looking back, I wonder why the PCs didn't go to to large low-rpm fans and heat pipes 10 years ago! It would have made the PC era much more enjoyable. Water cooling might never have evolved.