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I'm planning on buying a new case the fractal design define r5, and wanted to know, how much louder would it be having the window? i want to make the pc as quiet as i can cause i will be getting open back headphones and will be using noctua industrial 2000rpm fans, noctua cooler strix 970 sli and a ax860i all for silence and only have 2 or 1 fan running when idle or under little load, but i really anted to know if the side window would make it much louder.

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Your PC will not be quiet with Industrial Noctuas.

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you mean having the window on versus off?

on will make it much quiter.

 

having a window versus have a solid plate?

not much difference.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Your PC will not be quiet with Industrial Noctuas.

i will be using a fan curve on asus x99-a and will have them ramped all the way down to 500rpm or as low as they can go and off and when they ramp up only let the go to about 1000rpm, but if it doesnt work ill find another solution :)

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I'm planning on buying a new case the fractal design define r5, and wanted to know, how much louder would it be having the window? i want to make the pc as quiet as i can cause i will be getting open back headphones and will be using noctua industrial 2000rpm fans, noctua cooler strix 970 sli and a ax860i all for silence and only have 2 or 1 fan running when idle or under little load, but i really anted to know if the side window would make it much louder.

get consumer tan and brown noctua fans and put them on a fan controller. 980 would be better for silence than two 970 as it is fewer fans and less heat output

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If you want to see your hardware, then a window. Your not gonna notice much of a difference with noise.

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having a solid plate vs having a window

the difference is really negligable.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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get consumer tan and brown noctua fans and put them on a fan controller. 980 would be better for silence than two 970 as it is fewer fans and less heat output

ill be running dual 4k monitors for editing and gaming and other stuff and recording so want best fps and smooth gameplay

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get consumer tan and brown noctua fans and put them on a fan controller. 980 would be better for silence than two 970 as it is fewer fans and less heat output

and  if i do get tan and brown ones, ill be getting a white case (if possible) to go with white desk, cause IMO the tan and brown suits white much better than black

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i will be using a fan curve on asus x99-a and will have them ramped all the way down to 500rpm or as low as they can go and off and when they ramp up only let the go to about 1000rpm, but if it doesnt work ill find another solution :)

Right, but the whole reason for their existence is their high rpm. If you want them for cosmetic reasons, I would get lesser expensive black fans.

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Right, but the whole reason for their existence is their high rpm. If you want them for cosmetic reasons, I would get lesser expensive black fans.

i already have a couple industrial fans (not installed) so id rather get the same fans just to make the fan curve easier to make and make all the fans the same because im ocd like that

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