New HAF 932 owner... Too loud?

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Raycaster

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.Ran into a great deal involving a HAF932 Case and Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 motherboard. I was kinda rushed buying the case but it looked big enough to work with and great for cooling.

My question I guess regardless of what I put in it... Is it loud? I had a lot of 120mm fans in my old case and it was quiet. Are those monster fans quiet? or should I think of replacing them with good 120mm fans?

Thank you for your time.

I have a few other questions but will post in the appropriate forums.
 
Yeah the point of the big fans is they can run at low RPM and slower fans mean less noise. My HAF is extremely quite, so quite in fact that one of my HDD's in the loudest part of my coumpter.
 
Thanks for the reply guys.

It's kinda of funny as I seem to have come full circle with cases. I remember buying my first case to house a Pentium 100, it was a stupid big steel case built and weighed like a tank. Since then every case has got smaller and smaller till this.

Showing my age with the Pentium 100 remark I can safely say noise is now my number one concern with new builds.

I have 2 240mm rads and a full watercooling setup sitting in the closet but real hope it isn't needed. One day I may become bored and install it but its very low on my priority list especially if not overclocking.

Overclocking to gain 30% on a new system that is already over 400% faster than my 2 year old system is.. well.. perhaps a winter job :cool:
 
They are super quiet. In fact, the loudest fan in that entire case ended up being the stock fan that came with my Xigmatek heatsink.
 
My heatsink and power supply fans are competing for loudest fan in the case, and the noise level is still very quiet.
 
Great replies about the noise level of the case, I guess no need to replace and fans with quieter ones.

I noticed the major knock against it was the lack of any filtering. Has anyone "MacGyvered" decent looking filters into the unit or do most people just have a can of air close by?
 
Raycaster said:
Great replies about the noise level of the case, I guess no need to replace and fans with quieter ones.

I noticed the major knock against it was the lack of any filtering. Has anyone "MacGyvered" decent looking filters into the unit or do most people just have a can of air close by?
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After upgrading to a GeForce 470 my old Thermaltake Tsunami case wasn't cutting it any more. Yesterday I picked up a HAF 932 at Microcenter for a good deal and all my max temps are down by 15-20c! I was also wondering if there is anyway to add in filters on the intakes. I'm pretty sure in about 3 months its going to need a cleaning.
 
I replaced all but the top fan with 120mm's at 1800rpm and it is still quiet, video card at 100% is louder then all of them

I couldn't even tell the computer was on when using all the stock fans
 
vasta said:
I replaced all but the top fan with 120mm's at 1800rpm and it is still quiet
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You live in cargo ship's engine room or what? Time to get your hearing checked.
1800rpm fan is as quiet as highway in front yeard. (unless it's 80mm/smaller with very little airflow per rpm)
 
Love the HAF 932. Fans are quiet. One was replaced with a rad a two 120's but still very easy on the ears.
I thought Frozencpu had filters?
 
Well, I can't speak for the 932, but my 922 is much quieter than my previous case (2x120mm 1x80mm).

As for dust filters, I just vacuum the fan openings every other week and blow it out once a month. Keeps it pretty clean... though, yeah, filters would be nice.
 
The HAF 932 stock fans are silent, I have this case sitting on my desk right now

When I got this casing, I've actually tried powering up all the fane without assembling my system yet with another PSU, just to test and its dead silent. My system only gotten a little noisy when put everything else in including a annoying GeForce 9800GTX (thinking of replacing its cooler with those massive 3rd party heatsink ones.)

As long as your other components are quiet, you can easily build a silent system with this casing
 
The last rig I built was a dual P-III in an Antec case and it was as loud as an old airplane most of the time. I recently finished an i7-920 build with an ATI 5970 inside the HAF-922 and if it weren't for the LED in the front, I wouldn't know it was on most of the time. Even the Dell P4 I just retired for the new one was louder.
 
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