Alaric
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I'm looking for suggestions for a quiet case. I'll be shuffling parts around this year and decided to move my TV tuner card and W7 to a HTPC/general purpose browsing rig and use the Skylake rig for gaming and higher performance needs.
So. Since the new build will be in the living room and on most of the time I want a quiet case. I'll probably (eventually) spring for Noctua fans and either a Noctua cooler or 240 AIO. It will be a 2500k at stock with all the quiet and power saving stuff turned on to keep heat down, but the HD 5450 VGA is fanless and the TV card puts off a fair amount of heat, so airflow also needs to be adequate to good. Quiet, good airflow, and has to take an ATX mobo. Smaller is good, cable management is important, don't care about windows (no windows is probably quieter), don't need or want RGB (sacrilege!), and $200 or less. Attractive would be nice, unobtrusive is interchangeable with attractive so either way on that.
Anyone have anything to say about Fractal Design's quiet cases? Or any others out there I may not be aware of. Thanks, guys. The refrigerator white $28 newegg bargain bin box it will be in at first has to go, though. LOL
edit: Also open to colors besides black or white (except beige).
So. Since the new build will be in the living room and on most of the time I want a quiet case. I'll probably (eventually) spring for Noctua fans and either a Noctua cooler or 240 AIO. It will be a 2500k at stock with all the quiet and power saving stuff turned on to keep heat down, but the HD 5450 VGA is fanless and the TV card puts off a fair amount of heat, so airflow also needs to be adequate to good. Quiet, good airflow, and has to take an ATX mobo. Smaller is good, cable management is important, don't care about windows (no windows is probably quieter), don't need or want RGB (sacrilege!), and $200 or less. Attractive would be nice, unobtrusive is interchangeable with attractive so either way on that.
Anyone have anything to say about Fractal Design's quiet cases? Or any others out there I may not be aware of. Thanks, guys. The refrigerator white $28 newegg bargain bin box it will be in at first has to go, though. LOL
edit: Also open to colors besides black or white (except beige).
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