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Would you rather have " Better performance Fans or Quiet Fans?"

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See I'm currently building a gaming pc, and for the moment i use my gaming laptop until its fully finished. My laptop can be really loud when I play games so im kind of used to it. My Pc will have a H100i cooling an Overclocked 3770K, running push/pull. The fans for it are the stock h100i fans on push, and Corsair Sp120 Quiet Editions for Pull. So it should be quiet enough for me. Its all up to you!

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You can have both' date=' get Noctua fans![/quote']

They're so ugly, it would be hard to ever overcome the fact that you have them in your system.

Get a case without a window so you can't see them in there, I mean unless you go to a lot of LAN parties you don't really need a case with a window any way.

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My Pc will have a H100i cooling an Overclocked 3770K, running push/pull. The fans for it are the stock h100i fans on push, and Corsair Sp120 Quiet Editions for Pull. So it should be quiet enough for me. Its all up to you!

running missed-matched fans like that really doesnt help any cause, you know..

one set is trying to rid the air as the other kinda is in the way. and i dont think the

software will let you "split" the pairs to regulate the SP(i) fans to spin down to 1450

or you'll have to PSU/mobo the SP120QE fans. the SP120PE fans will prolly be a

better match or use all SP120QE (4) fans.

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I love having a quiet PC, but after a while, I didn't care too much since I'm always wearing head phones.

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Both. I like to keep idle very quiet with basicaly everything tuned down. On load i have it so the temperatures are good and sound doesnt come throght my headset.

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I always go for performance because not many fans are really that loud that it matters. And you get accustomed to noise pretty quickly. I used to fold 24/7 with a rig literally a meter from my bed and it did not bother me. This was with a definitely loud 8800. As long as it's not any worse than that I don't care.

those 1-5 degrees can make a difference :P

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Definitely silence for me. in my first computer case, an In Win BR665, I populated all 4 side panel fan spots with Scythe slim fans, and the airflow they provided was actually quite good. But I almost never turned them on because of how noisy they were. I didn't think that the noise would matter if they performed well, but as it turned out, that was not the case for me. I couldn't stand them being on.

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Depends on how much performance I would lose but I would prefer a quiet system.

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I'd choose performance over silence. However, that doesn't mean I'm ok with jet engines in my case.

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Noise doesn't bother me at all because I usually have my headset on so performance all the way!

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I prefer high performance generally, as long as they aren't too loud. I wear a headset all the time that I'm on my PC, so I don't notice the noise unless the fans are really loud.

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Personally I would go for quiet fans.

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Noctua's always my choice

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A quiet computer is very important, but with the technology available today, there's no need to compromise performance to achieve silence.

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quiet fan all the way, at 0v if possible when idle, it is the best (love silence)

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I run my Scythe gt 1850 rpm at 750rpm (as low as it'll let me go) through a manual inline fan speed controller (here: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=17916) on my hyper 212+ cooling my 3570k at stock speeds (with turbo boost)

It's in inaudible and cools at a max of 75c with intel burn test on maximum (ambient around 20c)

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You can have both' date=' get Noctua fans![/quote']

They're so ugly, it would be hard to ever overcome the fact that you have them in your system.

paint them......
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Personally I would have better performance than bother with noise, but if its too loud to enjoy my media then there is a problem

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silence all the way, as alot of the time i'm just browsing without wearing headphones.

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I'm currently using BitFenix Spectre fans (besides the one NZXT that came with my case), and they seem to perform well and they're pretty quiet. Well, except for the 120mm that's connected with Molex because I didn't have enough headers on my motherboard. It's loud enough to drown out my GPU's fans 90% of the time. 

 

Once I get a fan controller, my rig should be pretty quiet though.

 

I am impressed that even with the 120mm running 100%... my desktop is still quieter than my laptop or my Xbox. 

 

To answer the question... I care more about performance and price than about noise. Fan noise has never bothered me.

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