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Renx wrote on Thu, 24 August 2006 11:04

I would get a couple 120mm Vantec Stealths for your case too if you like silent fans. They're very quiet and move a lot of air. With a fanless heatsink like that you're going to need great airflow for doing things at continuous full load.


It's not fanless...it has a fan sandwiched in the middle. Here's a pic of it while it's powered on, taken directly from the side.

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EDIT: Forgot to mention that my case also has a huge 5" silent fan in the rear, a fan in the top, and a fan in the side. That combined with the bottom and front being mesh, I would dare say this is one of the most ventilated cases you could have.

EDIT2: I stuck a crappy 1MB PCI Trident video card in tonight, just so that I could boot the system and install all the motherboard drivers etc. Besides the shitty video, the system is very nice and fast. I also updated MBM (Motherboard Monitor) to my new board and was pleased to see the temperature of the CPU is literally 30F cooler than my AMD 3000+ was (under load too,with WCG running and maxing out both cores), and the case temp is equally low. So I'm quite pleased so far with the thermal efficiency of the case and CPU cooler.
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