Are silent PC cases a meme?
Do you have one, user-kun?
Are silent PC cases a meme?
Blake Morris
Lincoln Howard
I have a fractal define r4. No, they're not a meme.
In fact, you basically have to get a "slient" case if you want want to have gaudy gamer shit.
Alexander Perry
No, they're not memes.
But case windows are.
Dylan Nelson
They are nit memes if you run stock 65-95w cpu and sub-150w gpu. If you oc cpu and run higher tdp gpu you will have to run tour fans on higher rpm to compensate and it will just be lauder than a high airflow case with fans that run at low rpm.
Jacob Cook
I have an actual silent one, not that gay bequiet trash.
Look it up, Nanoxia Deep Silence 6, the only thing i can hear is the GPU under full load but thats only during late night when everything is super quiet. All fans are CoolerMaster Silencios, some PWM some using 7v adapters.
Alexander Diaz
Silence mostly comes down to your coolers and fans and fan control settings. The case makes some difference but not as much.
Robert Davis
Is the COOLER MASTER SILENCIO 550 good?
Jayden Jackson
My current case's tempered glass spontaneously broke last year, for no apparent reason. Hundreds of shards all over the floor and inside my case. What the fuck.
Robert Richardson
Phanteks P600S FTW
Hudson Harris
well deserved, faglord
Grayson Turner
Cheap silent cases aren't that effective. When you start spending lots of cash (define r6 or darkbase 900) it works, but if you want to save money buy a cheap case and some quality fans.
Charles Butler
Depends, that one in particular I think it is a meme.
It blocks airflow too much to a point you need to run fans at higher RPM which defeats the purpose of a silent case in the first place.
Fractal's Define R series is probably the best compromise as it has larger front cutouts for airflow.
Honestly, having quality silent fans and other silent components while also fine tuning the fan curves is much more important than having a "silent case".
Jordan Kelly
just get a piece of shit case and stick dampening material all over inside and out
Jackson Wood
Bought a Fractal R5 when it came out. Houses my server now. My main PC is also in a fractal R6 Blackout. Both with no windows of course.
Kevin Sullivan
aparently if you was to normalize a silent pc case like be quiET silent base to an high airflow case at 40 DBa, the high airflow case would have better temps on the cpu and gpu, it was done by gamers nexus
Robert Lee
I have a silent case, Nanoxia Deep Silence 3, dampening mats and everything. It is very silent, nearly inaudible during desktop use, great for actually having it on your desk right next to you as opposed to somewhere on the floor, but the fans do rev up rather quickly in games presumably because the intake flow is a bit limited and the rear fan and PSU fan are the only real exits, even the top mesh is covered in dampening. I don't have a frame of reference but I'm guessing that the temperatures under load would be lower in a more open case design. Maybe this silent case is actually louder under load than an airflow case, but as I've said the benefit is that you can hear almost nothing during desktop use.
Brandon Scott
One more thing: If I were to buy a silent case again I'd make sure it's one where the entire front opens as a door to increase intake air flow under load. When I open my half-door all I get access to are three drive bays and two fan controllers.
David Walker
CM silencio 352>>> all other slient cases
You may ask why:
>no gay ass side panel window
>minimalist design
>space for a lot of fans and removable fan covers, filters etc
>can accommodate a big gpu
>can accommodate tall coolers such as the hyper 212 evo black
>front USB3 and card reader
>about 50 pounds
>good quality unlike other chinkshit cases at this price point
Nolan Miller
Shitty case, no front accessible 5.25" bays.
Ian Ward
>Optic
Dylan Lopez
There are, you just have to open the door. How often do you insert discs anyway?
Isaac Sanchez
They're absolutely pointless. My Define R4 was louder than the Phanteks Evolv X that I replaced it with. It was very slightly better at blocking fan noise (which doesn't bother me at all), yet made all sorts of humming, vibrating and rattling noises under various conditions. And the pitch of the noise was more irritating, as it lower rather than a pleasant moving of air sound.
I sit right next to the Evolv X and it's literally inaudible on the desktop, even in the dead of night with no ambient sound, with my case fans and CPU fans both running at around 500RPM. Under load it entirely depends on what graphics card is in there. The Gigabyte 2080 Ti I have in there at the moment is inaudible under load. The reference Vega 64 that it replaced was very much audible, but it would be in any case.
Alexander Allen
Those should've been 140mm fan mounts
Anthony Baker
check the silencio 652, same shit but bigger
Jayden Butler
Glass is one of the worst things for noise. Glass holds reverberations of sound a lot more than say metal. I did have a silent case before, had a nice fan controller on the outside and all sides of the case had foam to help absorb sound.
Levi Rogers
I have a bequiet Dark Base Pro 900 which I use with a custom water loop and Noctua NF-A14 industrialPPC fans, aiming for silence. The components are an i7 7700K and 1080Ti.
It fucking sucks at being silent. The fans have to idle at a certain speed or else the water gets too warm and when under load they all spin up and the entire chassis develops an annoying vibration. I've used rubber grommets for the screws, the pump is mounted on a rubber damper, the chassis itself rests on padded feet and it's still noisy under load. My old air-cooled FT02 was far quieter.
Ian Jackson
Case thread? I'm torn between a silent case or a nice NZXT
Isaiah Nguyen
I have. It's perfect. The only thing I hear is HDDs whooshing.
Justin Baker
Not in my experience. Tempered glass does little to actually block sound, but it doesn't change it either. I've never had the glass make any sort of vibration, but then I own a $200 case and not a cheap piece of shit with poor build quality. Most good quality fans have a nice white noise sound profile that's very easy to tune out. "Silent" cases turn that into a low hum that's far more annoying, even if it's technically lower in terms of decibels. And since they also all have goddamn fucking shitawful airflow, the fans have to work harder and produce more of that noise to achieve reasonable temperatures.
Silence-focused cases are a meme. Gayman's Nextass reviews have proven time and again that they do almost fuck all for noise dampening whilst raising temperatures significantly, meaning you can achieve equal silence by running a high airflow case and lower fan speeds. The actual best (and really only) argument for "silent" cases is if your card has bad coil whine, since the foam does actually dampen high frequency noise somewhat.
Adrian Ward
i wish fractal would release a new mini
Jeremiah Williams
silent cases are gay. get a high airflow case and high quality fans. better yet put the computer in a different room and run the cables to your office. I keep my desktop in the basement below my office.
Zachary Nelson
>352
lmao baylets, when will they learn
Anthony Morales
You're fucking wrong