04-09-2010, 04:31 AM
Quote:Two words: Hovercraft Enthusiast.
I used to have a machine with lots of fans. I almost couldn't stand to be in the room with it, it was so noisy. My current box has two 120mm low-speed fans, a passive CPU heatsink, and one quiet fan in the power supply. If there's nothing else in the room making noise and you have a moment to stop and listen, you can identify that it's on. It's very nice.
Using low dbs fans and fan controllers can give you good air flow when gaming and quiet when not. The warmer the inside of the case is the hotter parts are going to run. So the more air you move through the case the cooler every thing will be. i currently have 4 120mm 2 cooler master and 2 generic 120mm R4-L2R-20CG-GP (1 80mm but as soon as i get me acrylic this one is gone) fans on my case and a cooler master hyper 212 and with all the fans going full speed it is a little loud but if i turn the all except the 2 cooler masters and the 120 on the hyper 212 the only fan you here is the hyper 212. But with them all going on low the temps in my case drop by 10c