building queit but cool system

[watts3000]

The title says it all I plain on building a p4 2.4c or a barton 2500. I want a system thats as queit as my dells. I currently have a 1900xp thats noisy as hell 2 3 90mm case fans. I've heard they have special fans now that spin up only when system gets hot. I'm using this antec case now I have the one at the bottom of the page. I'm open to case and fan options by the way the system will house 1 36 gig 10000 rpm scci, 1 burner, 1 dvd and of course sound card video card, and nic also will have 1 gig of ram.



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[hans007]

personally i tried to do the same thing. the loudest thing in my case now is the hard drive. if yuo get components like these, and make sure you get no blowholes on your case it makes it much louder.

my old inwin v564 had one, to make it p4 3.06 intel compliant, but it made the fans inside much easier to hear since there was an open grill on the side panel.



here is what i went with

chenbro gaming bomb case (its pretty nice looking, well the front is kinda agressive, but anyhow, its all screwless, has a mesh filter in front, etc, very solid , doesnt costs too much either)

fortron 120mm fan PSU 300 watts (this is a big factor)

2 80mm arctic cooling tc-1 temp monitored fans ($3 each at svc.com)

1 arctic cooling silencer 64 socket 754 heatsink (i was building a athlon 64, this fan doesnt vibrate, cools well, but its kinda loud still at its stock speed)


1 zalman fanmate 1 speed controller, to get the cpu fan down to 1900 rpm (now its basicaly silent, and still keeps the athlon 64 plenty cool)

 

[kursplat]

you'll love this place....
good luck

 

[hans007]

check out silentpcreview.com also

 

[0roo0roo]

just stock it with panaflos. and a fanspeed controller if u feel the need. i like antec/chieftec cases with a door though, muffles optical drive noise.