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For the final fan test we attached the blue Noctua ‘Ultra Low Noise' Adapter which Noctua rate at 7.9dBa for this fan. The fan slows down to around 1,000rpm.
As expected temperatures rise by another 10c or so on the processor while the Sapphire card temperatures increase by another 1c under load. These are still well within safe parameters and we can't even tell the system is on.
Again we had to hold our breath and maintain still movement to get our final measurement of 16.2dBa. Obviously the PSU and other ambient noise is adding a little to our reading but this was as low as our equipment was able to measure in this room. Even with our ear to the chassis we could hear nothing at all. The Silverstone PSU is clearly also very effective.
That is one of the most creative reviews ive read in a long time, great testing and very very interesting for me personally.
That is wonderful. Noctua are my favourite company, wish they did a budget range however, but I can’t see that happening
This is why I love this site. the news is sometimes gossipy and funny and the reviews are some of the best online and not to be taken lightly !
I have no idea how you come up with all these ideas, but keep them coming, this is a great concept idea and one which a large audience will love.
Well that was a most enjoyable read and another high praise for Noctua. they do deserve it though. They should be giving you shares in the company Zardon, you must have sold them a few thousand coolers by now 🙂
Any ideas of stores near Paris for one of these?
they are around £40 in the UK, which is quite expensive as always for a cooler of this size, but that noctua for you, the ferrari of the cooling world 🙂
I would like that system myself, wouldn’t cost a fortune to build it either. I worked out a price list.
CPu £180
Motherboard £110
Cooler £40
Chassis and PSU £150
graphics card £100
Not bad value really for a silent, system 🙂
Add £100 to that for memory too Flo. would work out about £700.
Folks, thumbs up from me!
I found this web site just few days ago and quickly became my favorite!
Found it last week, here a couple of times a day for these reviews. brilliant.
Gotta love testing like this, so useful and not many sites do it, its all performance, overclocking, performance.
Noise is my main concern now, I want a small PC on my desk to do my work, something powerful enough to handle rendering and light gaming, but something I dont even know is on.
Just described this system and I am going now to order ALL the parts online to build it the same. (might go for Corsair memory though)
would it be possible to do the same with a 1055T Zardon? same price as 655k but 4 more cores?
I think anything under 25dBA is basically quiet anyway isnt it? 16.2db? thats incredible. I had heard on another site that silverstone were using a really efficienct PSU in this, that is basically silent until its loaded to about 500W, which isnt giong to happen with a single GFX, well unless its a GTX480.
655k seems great for low power cool running performance systems. with HT, it has four cores anyway so should be fine for the majority of tasks.
This was really really good reading Kitguru, so practical and not impossible or requiring tons of modding work either.
This SG07 (Star Gate 7 😛 ) is very very interesting case…
I just got a mod idea – this “Penetrator” fan looks very promising; Corsair H series or CoolIT self-contained water cooling is also very interesting solution; so if there is 180mm radiator combined with self-contained water cooling setup, can lead to a very promising solution…
So nice powerful ITX board combined with this case, super-duper GPU and the water cooling solution that I just dreamed of… well, I’ll just keep on dreaming… 😀
Hey Jordan, thats a brilliant idea. maybe another article for Zardon to handle for us later !
Or another mod:
Keep the “penetrator” but somehow attach H50 or CoolIT ALC to it.
Zardon, I guess you have the components… 😉
[sigh] I wish I could have the financial means… :-/ I would do it my self…
mmmm. wonder how you could mod the H50 to fit to the 18cm fan…….. possible probably.
Obviously the h50 or coolit products would be generating a lot more noise however, but temps would be much better. completely different article though I think.
H50 would probably fit in this if you could mod a bracket for the radiator to connect to the fan system in the chassis. Would mean you could get huge overclocks with not much noise, certainly wouldnt be 16dBa though. maybe 23-26 (still quiet).
excellent article, good read
Extremely good article. As I’m on the edge on buying a SG07 I really want to now all about the cooling options. Specially for the Zotac board.
Scythe Rasetu and Noctua CP12P SE14 would be lovely if fitted.
The case will not fit the Noctua NH-D14 because of the height considering that the NH-D14 has a 160mm height and the 180mm fan on top has a height of 32mm it will be in the way of the fan. It is your choice to take the 180mm fan off, wish they made it 3mm or 4mm taller.