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Question Recommendation for silent case for i9-9900K system please

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anandtechreader

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Hi, I am looking for a silent or almost silent case to build a high-end workstation with i9-9900K and 1-2 RTX2080Ti. Between the Cosmos C700M and SL600M, which is better? Any other suggestions?
 
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DigDog said:
Two 2080 will make a lot of heat. Silent cases tend to perform worse in thermals. Are you sure you want this, for a workstation?

The SL600M won "best thermals" from GamersNexus (a respectable reviewer), and while i wouldnt touch a CM product with a cattle prod (i would go Fractal Designs instead), the SL is probably a good choice.

Check https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3397-best-and-worst-pc-cases-of-2018
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Thanks. I mentioned two 2080Ti just in case. Initially I use only one.

Yes but he mentioned that it is good for GPU cooling but not for CPU cooling. I think he mentioned that good GPU thermal is obtained by mounting it vertically. Not sure if two GPU can do that.
 
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anandtechreader said:
Thanks. I am a bit confused about FD's naming convention. Is R2 older than R6? I also cannot find full tower or mega tower in the newer? R6 series.
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Yes, the R series is numbered consecutively, do the R2 is older. Afaik the R4 was the peak of the series, i myself worked with a R3 midtower and it is phenomenal, very quiet too.
 
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anandtechreader said:
Thanks. I am a bit confused about FD's naming convention. Is R2 older than R6? I also cannot find full tower or mega tower in the newer? R6 series.
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XL R2 is a full size tower. It's older and they haven't updated it in awhile but It's still considered a silent case.

R6 would be a mid sized tower. It's going to be kind of tight in there for SLI but it could probably be done.
 
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You shouldn't have a problem with a R6 and fitting a SLI setup. You might have issues with a R6 + SLI + custom water coolling + 40+ TB RAID storage + silence.... Silence is hard with SLI in general. Silence and water don't mix (water will get you a good overclocked system that you can live with, but if you want silence, you are looking strictly at air cooling with huge heatsinks). I have a silent system (but I don't have SLI). I have it in an R4. I would have no problem upgrading to an R6 if I was building it today. But I previously stated, nothing will make SLI silent (save for a 30 foot DisplayPort/DVI cable and USB cable and putting the system in a closet).
 
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I disagree, you can do silence with water cooling, it just isn't cheap and temps will be slightly higher than if you were running fans at full temps. Have one rad for the gpu's and one for the cpu. Using a massive corsair 900D and a custom loop, you can get silence + water cooling, it's just expensive as hell.
 
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fastamdman said:
I disagree, you can do silence with water cooling, it just isn't cheap and temps will be slightly higher than if you were running fans at full temps. Have one rad for the gpu's and one for the cpu. Using a massive corsair 900D and a custom loop, you can get silence + water cooling, it's just expensive as hell.
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I can't disagree more. A fully custom water loop is still louder than air. You still have just as many or more fans than in an air setup and you also have water pumps. Even the quietest water pumps are still louder than any fan I use in my systems (including GPU fan). What water does get you is the ability to overclock more while keeping the noise levels down (air hits a limit much ooner and more so if you are going for silence).
 
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Fallen Kell is correct.

There is noway your going to get quieter then an air system on all water, if were looking at pure quiet aspect.

Pumps make noise.
Fans make noise.

You just have more things that generate noise on a custom LCS then you would on Air.
Now if were looking at a performance / noise RATIO.... then its flipped.

You can get a quieter system on Water then on AIR, if your looking at the higher end of the performance curve, because water cheats by having more then 10x the thermal transfer properties of Air alone, and you also got a lot more surface area on that radiator then you would on an Air sink, which means you get to tune down those fans a by a lot compared to air.
 
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