Computer Case and Fan

[JoshuaRossChristie]

I'm using a AIO water cooler and a massive loud case with shitty fans.  What smaller ATX case and air cooler would you suggest? I was looking at the fractal define r7 and the massive noctua fan but others suggestions are welcome

[suedseefrucht]

What's your hardware?
Do you want to cool an overclocked 12900K and a RTX 3090 Ti?
Or just an i3/i5 office PC with internal graphics?

 

For my build (see down below) I use a quiet slim air cooler and it's perfectly quiet and fine.
The loudest thing in my system is the graphics card.
So the Define R7 can reduce your graphic's card's noise, but if I would get a newPC, I would probably go for the Fractal Design Torrent Compact with a quiet graphics card like the RTX 3070/80 from ASUS and Noctua. Also I wouldn't get a HDD. It's cheap and a lot of storage but it makes noise too.

[_Omega_]

The sice of the AiO would be helpful as well 

[JoshuaRossChristie]

6 minutes ago, suedseefrucht said:

What's your hardware?
Do you want to cool an overclocked 12900K and a RTX 3090 Ti?
Or just an i3/i5 office PC with internal graphics?

 

For my build (see down below) I use a quiet slim air cooler and it's perfectly quiet and fine.
The loudest thing in my system is the graphics card.
So the Define R7 can reduce your graphic's card's noise, but if I would get a newPC, I would probably go for the Fractal Design Torrent Compact with a quiet graphics card like the RTX 3070/80 from ASUS and Noctua. Also I wouldn't get a HDD. It's cheap and a lot of storage but it makes noise too.

Likely not super overkill. Just planning on upgrading to a ryzen 7 or ryzen 9 for video editing. Probably continue to use my gtx 1660ti

[JoshuaRossChristie]

7 minutes ago, _Omega_ said:

The sice of the AiO would be helpful as well 

It's a dual fan not sure exactly if the size. It will fit in the front or top of my r5 but I want to use the built in card reader for my camera and that won't work with that in there unfortunately.

[suedseefrucht]

27 minutes ago, JoshuaRossChristie said:

Likely not super overkill. Just planning on upgrading to a ryzen 7 or ryzen 9 for video editing. Probably continue to use my gtx 1660ti

Alright.
If you are not planning on overclocking, the Ryzen 5900X needs about 133 W on heavy load.

So bequiet! Shadow Rock Slim 2 for up to 160 W, bequiet! Dark Rock Slim for up to 180 W or a similar sized Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black should be fine.

If you want to just get better fans, you could go for 3 of the new bequiet! silent wings 4 or Arctic F14 Silent if you want something cheaper.

So you wouldn't even need a new case, unless you want one.

So if you go for arctic, your PC could be quiet for like 80 bucks, if your power supply is quiet.