Comment by nottorp

I use Noctua for the silence but I also literally don't have any of the panels attached to my case. The main panel doesn't even fit because the DH-15[1] would stick out.

My DH-15 isn't particularly silent because the fans are silent but it's so effecient that the fans barely need to spin.

[1]: https://www.noctua.at/en/products/nh-d15

> In which case they'd have silent cases with no glass panes, because those are thinner and a possible source of vibration. They may even glue (opaque) sound absorbing material to the inside of their cases.

I'd prefer no glass, but nevertheless just bought two glass cases because no alternatives that met my requirements were available:

* Fractal Design Torrent Compact - Best cooling available for a GPU-free, air-cooled CPU system. There exists a non-glass version, but it's unavailable in North America.

* Thermaltake The Tower 300 - Smallest form-factor case that will fit a 420mm AIO cooler. Only available with glass sides.

I built a PC this year in a Meshroom S V2[1]. The NF-A14x25 G2 fans I used for the AIO didn't seem so expensive when I was spending $600 on RAM, and I was happy that they were available in black.

Not every quiet PC is built in a dense box. Good airflow with big, slow fans is working for me to cool a 9800X3D and a 5070 Ti quietly under load.

[1]: https://ssupd.co/products/cases-meshroom-s-v2

I'm firmly in the I-want-a-quiet-case-which-sits-under-a-desk-so-I-can't-see-through-the-panes-anyway camp, but I sometimes wondered if glass wouldn't actually be better, since those models appear to be heavier than their opaque brethren. So I'd expect them to vibrate less, etc.