Re: Quiet HDD (was Quiet cases)
On 10 Mar 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> For cases I love Antec. I recently built a system with the SX835II from
> Antec (see
> http://www.antec-inc.com/pro_details_enclosure.php?ProdID=80843). It is
> hard to tell if the PC is on despite the CPU fan, video GPU fan, dual
> fan power supply + 2 case fans. The cases are beautiful to work with as
> well (no sharp edges, nice hinged side door, etc.).
Indeed, one of those sitting on my desk right now. MB temp sits at about
80 and cpu temp at 85 or so.(it's a bit warm in my office today) Most
similar class machines in regular cheapo Aopen KX50's here sit at about 85
and 105 cpu temperature.
The part I like best about the antec cases is there is a 80mm fan mounted
in the hard drive bay. I just wish the 835 had two fans, one for each
tray that is there. I emailed antec about the availability of that, and
they haven't gotten back to me, I might need to call them.
We have an Antec 1440B over at one of our facilities, with 4 Cheetah
X15-36LP's mounted in it, and a P4 mb with a GF4 TI4600 and a raid card.
This case doesn't have fans mounted in front of the hard drives.
However, the drives run at barely above room temperature, because there
are 9 92mm fans in total pulling air from the front to the back.
Normally you have to have active cooling on a Cheetah or it will die a
quick death, but with this case, it's quite safe if you set it up right.
Even with all those fans in the case, it's not noticeablely loud.
Then again, this case is somewhere around 500 bucks, you get what you pay
for
Mike
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