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Originally posted by Khledar
Yeah the quiet thing can be a bit of an ongoing saga liek Stash mentioned.
Once you get those noisy CPU/Northbridge/GPU fans out of there you start to find out that gee that PSU is loud, the optical drives really whirr, and those HDD's make a racket. All things to watch out for, some wee rubber washer type things can help with the HDD, you might need to mod your cage or a 3-5" bracket to get the washers to fir right but, it might be worth it.
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At first I thought it was my PSU (Enermax 420w jobby) since it is now getting on for 3 years old and it was a little dusty. So I cleaned it and now it's practically silent, probably was before, but it feels good to get all that dust out.
Check out more before and after pictures.
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One big tip on fans is, bigger = quieter. I have a couple 120mm Panaflo's (86oddCFM) at 12v they are normalish noise for a fan, not a scremer, but not a real quiet one either. At 7v they are pretty quiet and still push quite a bit of air, and for a nice cool breeze and near silence 5v still gets the job done.
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Snap! Though I am going to pic myself up a YS-TECH FD1238 120mm fan since they might be even better low volted. Currently I have one of the Panaflows (5v) blowing in the front of the case (I nibbled a great big hole in the front of the case) across my WD1200JB which keeps it cold to the touch. Before that thing used to get toasty.
The PSU covers getting air out of the case. There is another 5v Panaflow currently sitting on top of the heater core, lose sucking air through it. I can barely feel any breeze at all, but if I turn the fan off my CPU temps rocket up from 37c load to, well, I turned it back on since it didn't seem to be stopping once it had hit 55c and I was chicken
