I have an Antec P180, and I can't remember which PSU and CPU cooler - mostly from Quiet PC. I'm very satisfied with the sound level, which is usually below whisper quiet. It should be - I spent about £200 on the enclosure and PSU alone.

Good stuff Chris - sounds like it'll be a great setup

I'm sure you'll report back with your findings

Steve

Be great to see the result, hopefully you'll be happier with this one.

Post up some pics and an MP3 sample of the noise @1m

So we are up and running. The noise level is a little quieter than the machine it replaces, lots quieter than the Shuttle! Monitoring shows the CPU temp to be 34 - 35 deg C which is only about 4 deg C warmer than the room (Arctic Silver 5 doing it's stuff). There is scope to disconnect one of the two case fans I think. The top fan seems to make more noise than any of the other stuff. Still very acceptable, maybe a specialist low noise item later? Power supply is very quiet too. Exhaust air is cool all round.

Vista? So far, everything has been hassle. Even the new Microsoft keyboard I got has known compatability issues. I am yet to install any applications or additional hardware, but I feel a long road may lay ahead.

Looks nice though.

Again, thanks for everyones input.

Chris

Glad you're getting some way down the road Chris!

I know, never straightforward is it? Keep taking the tablets

Steve

Hi to all.

I am returning a Shuttle XPC case which, when fitted with a AMD6000+ CPU is just too noisy.

I am looking for suggestions on quiet cases. Anyone tried the Arctic Cooling Silentium series? Any other suggestions for something quiet with this processor?

Chris

I had a Shuttle PC case. It had a Steath 12v Arctic Cooling fan on the back.

The inside (I changed the case frame) and Mounted a HDD cooling fan. All ran really quiet.

I was tempted to try water cooling - However the case is just so small. I did see a post up on 'Book PC' a while back where a guy had tubes coming out from his case and back in.

It looked the dogs but I have no Idea if it would actually work - I wouldn't advise drilling a case randomly either

I had a Shuttle PC case. It had a Steath 12v Arctic Cooling fan on the back.

The inside (I changed the case frame) and Mounted a HDD cooling fan. All ran really quiet.

I was tempted to try water cooling - However the case is just so small. I did see a post up on 'Book PC' a while back where a guy had tubes coming out from his case and back in.

It looked the dogs but I have no Idea if it would actually work - I wouldn't advise drilling a case randomly either

SWMBOs Shuttle is virtually silent. Shame mine was not. I did consider modding it to cope, but the whole idea of buying it was for a straightforward PC.

Glad you're getting some way down the road Chris!

I know, never straightforward is it? Keep taking the tablets

Steve

Vista. What is with that bit of Sh!t:mad:

Have had to do 4 installs to try and get basic keyboard and trackball support to work without freezing the thing on bootup. Thus far Chris' PC usefulness rating for Vista: :pants:

SWMBOs Shuttle is virtually silent. Shame mine was not. I did consider modding it to cope, but the whole idea of buying it was for a straightforward PC.

Vista. What is with that bit of Sh!t:mad:

Have had to do 4 installs to try and get basic keyboard and trackball support to work without freezing the thing on bootup. Thus far Chris' PC usefulness rating for Vista: :pants:

I find vista business good, just make sure you have the latest WHQL NV drivers for anything that is theirs. They cause so many crashes on theirs.

The problem isn't vista it's thrid parties acting all surprised their XP drivers don't work properly in vista even though they had many beta versions to try.

I have an antec fusion V2 case with an asus mobo and an athlon x2 4200 energy efficient processor, coupled with passively cooled 8500GT graphics card, a dual tuner freeview card, 3 hard drives and 4G of ram... and you can hardly hear it. its set up as a media center PC in the living room (and i am typing on it now!).

i am impressed with the build quality of the case. the only down side is the flaky VFD display.

Well it all went together fine. The Antec 300 case, Triton 77 CPU cooler and Xilence PSU make very little sound, a lot quieter than my previous setup. Temperatures are very well controlled (sitting here with a 30 C CPU temp at the momemt). What is interesting is that subjectively, the whole setup makes a lot less excess heat than the old Athlon 3000 based system.

Vista? Well it looks pretty. Seems to be stable now I have all the driver issues sorted out. Performance wise, the setup is a little faster than the old system on some things about the same on others. The Samsung 1TB drive is fast, cool and quiet.

All in all, pretty happy with the result.

Chris

Really glad to hear that you've finally ended up with a setup you're happy with Chris

Steve

Another one glad to hear you finally got the system you wanted