Define R5, good silent case?

Hemanse · February 6, 2016

So lately my pc have been driving me a little bit nuts, the culprits seem to be my noctua fans, mainly the 2 fans on my NH-D14, even with low noise adapters they have this really annoying humming noise, even tho they are as clean as possible and nothing is touching them. So i feel like its time to finally change out fans and get a new case, also getting rather tired of my CM Trooper case.

The Fractal Define R5 is on sale this weekend @ around 90$ and im very much considering getting one, but just wanted to get a feel here first how good the case actually is, build quality and silence wise

DarkBlade2117 · February 6, 2016

Yeah the R5 is a nice case though you could also look into the NZXT H440 which to me looks a bit better or if you want to get a full tower, you can opt for a BeQuiet! silent Base 800 like I did.

Hemanse · February 6, 2016

3 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

Yeah the R5 is a nice case though you could also look into the NZXT H440 which to me looks a bit better or if you want to get a full tower, you can opt for a BeQuiet! silent Base 800 like I did.

Yeah those were the ones i had a look at, last 2 cases have been full towers and i think it might be time to try out a smaller one, i love the look of the H440, but i have heard that even the new version still suffers from pretty poor airflow, where as the R5 should still do pretty decent. 99% sure im gonna go with the R5 and also gotta find some nice and quiet fans, people always recommend noctua, yes they are great quality, but i would by no means call them quiet, as soon as mine go above 800rpm they are quite audible.