On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 06:04:09PM +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
A friend of mine is thinking of buying one of these. It seems pretty decently equipped for the price. My only worry is the case - it has lots of large fans. Has anyone heard one of these things in action? Is it going to be too noisy for a desktop?
Well, you don't have to have all the fans connected.... even so Antec make great cases and tend to use reasonable fans. If they are too noisy just replace them with some quieter models. Even so, large fans are quieter than small fans (generally) as they spin more slowly to move the same amount of air which reduces noise levels.
I'd rather have an Antec case with a load of (at very least) half decent fans than something cheap and nasty with 1 or 2 very cheap fans that make loads of noise and break after a few months.
Adam