05-18-2008, 11:05 PM
Quote:Regarding the cases, even a somewhat loud computer today is so much quieter than the things people were building about 5 years back with 80mm and sometimes even 60mm fans all over the place. The first time I tried to POST my new system, I forgot to plug my monitor to the power outlet, and the system was so quiet that I thought it had failed when it was actually still running.
I really like the idea of a really quiet case, and the Antec Sonata III even has rubber gromit mountings for the drives to isolate any vibration noise from them. Great idea.
I also hope to use the new computer as a HTPC to stream HD stuff to my 42" plasma TV, and having a quiet system will help with that. I even bought a really long DVI <> HDMI cable and audio cables for it from monoprice.com.
Just out of curiosity, what were the rest of your computer parts and would you have changed any of them if you had to do it again?