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To test the acoustic performance we will be doing everything we can to reduce the noise emitted by other components, for instance we won't have any mechanical hard drives plugged in, and we will be using onboard graphics to avoid the use of our AMD 6450 graphics card.
We will be temporarily turning the Antec 920 fans off by simply unplugging them, leaving us with just the sound level output from the case fans as our PSU runs nearly silent.
Due to the inbuilt fan controller we ran this test twice once with it on the low setting and once with it on the high setting. We repeated each test to ensure accuracy.
This is an impressive result, with low settings noise emissions are hardly noticeable with a very faint fan whirring sound in the background.
Increasing the speed of the 120mm fan only raises the sound-level to around 34 dBA. That said, turning the top 140mm fan up to full-speed greatly increases noise emissions.
I like their products, they are always well priced.
I like windowed cases, but my routing skills suck so id need to put a lot of time and effort into it. which is why I have never bought one :p
It isn’t a bad case, but I used the ordinary one and I dont think its a very pretty looking case. I suppose the price point means they need to cut some corners.