dkev

So you want to quiet your system. How do you do that? Buy ultra quiet fans? Sound deaden the inside of your case? Sure those will help. But I have 6 120mm fans, a 140mm fan and a 80mm fan, not including my psu fan. And it is easily the quietest system I have ever built. Why? I eliminated air turbulence.
4 of my 120's are these. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-062-_-Product
One is a Xigy stock that came with my heatsink, one is a CM standard system fan, the 140 stock with the case, and a Dell fan I yanked out of an old system.

In this photo I have 2 120's and a fan controller. The top fan is mounted in my 5.25 cage. Their is nothing to impede the air flow so at full speed it is very quiet. The bottom fan has the heavy steel mesh which is common in a lot of cases. This one at full speed is noisy. Since it is mostly for hdd cooling, I leave it on a low setting.


This is my side fan. The original window that came with my case had vents the fan mounted behind. This created the bulk of my system noise and it was high pitched. I made a new window, eliminating the vents. Now at full speed the fan is very quiet.



This is the 80mm fan I have mounted between the vid card and my psu. I removed the PCI cover plates. This allows any trapped heat in this area to be exhausted. This is a quiet fan so I run it at full speed.


My main back exhaust sits behind heavy steel mesh like the front lower, so at full speed it is noisy. This I leave at low speed. The 140 is very quiet by design so I leave that at full speed.
So I removed anything that I could that would create air turbulance and those I couldn't I left at low speed. My hsf's are mobo controlled and run at low speed. With everything on low my system is literally half as loud as my wifes which uses only 2 system fans. Hope this helps when you decide how you set up your fans for quiet running.

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Monsk

It's "turbulEnce",

Sweet build though, really clean

dkev

Ya my spelling sucks, sorry guys.

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edalbkrad

Won't the 80mm exhaust fan below your Videocard suck all the airflow against the videocard fan? and prevent the gpu fan from taking enough air?

tK FuRY

that 80mm "exhaust" is actually an intake from the looks of the picture.

On a fan note , I still have more fans

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boydyboyd

This is very true. I took a pair of industrial wire-cutters to the fan grills of my P180. Makes a world of difference.

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dham

Yea he said exhaust but its an intake.

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dkev

Yup, I have it turned around...not sure how I screwed that up. Man that fan is a pain to mount too. Anyway, no the 80mm will not over take the vid card fan (when it's pointed the right way ) , sense it is also a 80mm fan plus I'm pushing in way more air with the side 120 mount fan. Oh and thanks for pointing my total over sight out.

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Ecchi-BANZAII!!!

Your case looks far from silent...
Not to brag but my rig is silent.
How so? Well take my Scythe Quiet Drive for instance. It's making the HDD almost inaudible, so I figured that I had to change fans and tighten the case around the corner and add rubber tape on the sides just to make it even more silent.
And guess what, that almost inaudible HDD is now the piece in my PC that gives away the most noise.

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dkev

I never said it was silent. But for the amount of fans I am running it is pretty quiet. And taking the steps I took reduced the noise greatly while maintaining maximum cooling. No pc with decent air cooling is going to be dead silent. I am only after minimizing the noise. And how does something look loud?

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