<div class="gmail_quote">On 24 February 2012 04:01, Matt Garman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew.garman@gmail.com">matthew.garman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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They could be. Mine is not; the only fan is the CPU fan, which can<br>
only be heard if you put your ear right up to the case. I might be<br>
able to get away without a fan using a "T" series CPU (e.g. i3-2100T).<br>
Or, if I used a bigger case I could then use a massive heatsink and<br>
go fanless (I have mine stuffed in a Habey EMC-800B case).<br>
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You can have silence without being fanless. But you can easily go<br>
fanless if you give up on size (big case + monster heatsink), or if<br>
you spend the big bucks on one of those fancy cases that act as a<br>
giant heatsink. But you can get the best of both worlds (small, low<br>
price) if you're willing to have a single, slow-moving fan---and you<br>
still get silence.<br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks all for the replies, this gives me something to go off. Building my own would be more fun for sure!<br><br>Have seen a lot of messages on here about the Intel stuff over using nVidia, thanks for the tips on that.<br>
<br>Cheers<br><br>Martin<br></div></div>