Well, I mucked up the pictures, but I did a little work on the old system today. I moved the main tower into the bedroom (that’s my silver Lian Li case). While trying to sleep, I realized the thing is actually a little noisy with the fans I had in it. Well, I replaced my case fans with these Arctic Cooling 80×38mm fans from SVC, and I replaced my stock CPU cooler with this Silent Whisper cooler by Sunbeam. For as cheap as these things were, WOW, it’s a lot quieter. I think one of the keys is the isolation on the case fans. Now the loudest thing in there is the chipset cooler (I really hate those things), so that’s the next adjustment.

Oh, not only is the noise down, but I’m about 4 degrees C cooler than I was stock. So far so good for a $20 CPU cooler.