Why being an Overclocker is tough.....(rant inside)

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3) Fan noise. Why? Mankind is romping around with unmanned vehicles on Mars and we still have whiny fans here on Earth.

Fast spinning fans tend to whine a lot, and air turbulence adds on to the noise. Slow RPM fans like the Panaflo L1As and Nexus are very silent.

4) Speaking of 80mm fans, why do so many case companies insist on using multiple 80mm when single 120's will do the job with much less noise.

No idea, maybe they don't want to go through all the trouble of punching a larger grill?? Antec seems to love the 120mm sizes when it comes to their mid towers (Super Lanboy, Sonata).

1) Vantec - mediocre heatsinks, the vortex requires you to manually turn it on each time you start the computer, this one is just pitiful

Yep, I stay away from Vantec stuff. The noise the Aeroflow made was irritating.

2) Thermaltake - great company 3 years ago, now they are more of a sideshow for the freakish frankenstein like products they put out

They like to exaggerate their dB ratings.