Quiet Case?

[CapperDom]

Which of these would be a quiet computer?

Corsair 600T Or NZXT Switch 810?

 

[whatsthatnoise]

Neither of them is really supposed to be used for a quiet PC.

After all noise comes from fans. Fans can be controlled. I'd say they are pretty equally capable of being a quiet system with some time spent on it.

However, the 600T already has a fan control on board, the Switch does not. NZXT builts really nice looking, quality fan controls to fix this.

 

[amuffin]

NZXT Switch 810 is quieter, though if you are looking for quietness, get the Fractal Design XL

 

[hellfire24]

any case can be a 'quiet case' with silent fans!i would go with switch and quality fans!

 

[ddan49]

I've been looking around for the same kind of thing! The thing is that most noise (from what I gathered) doesn't necessarily come from CASE fans.. but GPU and/or CPU fans. A stock CPU fan doesn't give a lot of noise (I think), but from your budget, I'm assuming you're overclocking and have a non-stock fan. Silent case fans are generally helpful, but not if the case has a bunch of holes all over the place that allow the GPU fans to emit a lot of noise that gets through.

To solve that problem, I've seen quite a few cases with foam padding on the inside. While that may be excessive, (Fractal R3) a good idea would be to get a case that doesn't have many holes (except for the ones necessary for airflow). Commonly, a lot of noise comes out of unused fan mounts. The R3 solves this problem by covering unused fan mounts. It apparently has fairly good airflow, as well.

 

[Rugger]

The Corsiar 550D also covers unused fan mounts and uses noise reducing material to line the cover.

 

[ddan49]

Woops.. my bad. Then get the Corsair.They're a better company imo in general.

 

[CapperDom]

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