Comment by wdfx
1 day ago
I bought this case a couple of years ago after this article was linked here.
I love it. It's beautifully engineered. Top quality. It sits at the corner of my desk proudly silent.
I'm likely about to upgrade the pc within but the case will remain a strong feature of my desk.
Do you use it as a gaming PC (or for other high GPU load activities)? And if so, what's your take on noise under load?
Edit: I guess this is a senseless question if the case really only uses passive cooling. I was assuming there would still be fans somewhere.
I despise my current PC's fan noise and I'm always on the lookout for a quieter solution.
It's a dev workstation for me.
Currently inside is an i7-9600 which I limit to 3.6ghz and a cheap 1050ti.
The CPU is technically over the TDP limit of the case but with the frequency limit in place I never exceed about 70degC and due to my workloads I'm rarely maxing the CPU anyway.
There is zero noise under any load. There is no moving parts inside the case at all, no spinning HDD, no PSU fan, no CPU fan, no GPU fan.
> I guess this is a senseless question if the case really only uses passive cooling.
Are there senseless questions?
It can be used for gaming if your demands are met by a Nvidia 1650.
MonsterLabo built passive cases that could cool hotter components, seems defunct though, sadly.
Did you have no success upgrading your fans (Noctua etc)? Still too loud? How about water cooling?
Just last week I moved from using a Noctua NH-U12S to cool my 5950X, to a ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 AIO liquid cooler (first time using liquid cooling), and while I expected the difference to be big, I didn't realize how big.
Now my CPU idles at ~35 usually, which is just 5 degrees above the ambient temperature (because of summer...), and hardly ever goes above 70 even under load, and still super quiet. Realize now I should have done the upgrade years ago.
Now if I could only get water cooling for the radiator/GPU I'm using. Unfortunately no water blocks available for it (yet) but can't wait to change that too, should have a huge impact as well.
It's an HP OEM (because I moved countries during the pandemic and getting parts where I settled was ridiculously more expensive).
The CPU is AIO (and the radiator fans are loud). The GPU has very loud fans too, but is not AIO.
It's four years old at this point and I might just build something else rather than try to retrofit this one to sanity (which I doubt is possible without dumping the GPU anyway).
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