Stori wrote:Case Steel thickness 0.84mm(approx)
Dampening material 2.8 mm (approx)
I used a dial micrometer on the Steel case and a Vernier Calliper on the dampening material.

Total thickness would be the sum of the above i.e. approx 3.6 mm to 1 decimal place

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Well... after 2 days of testing, it seems that I'm going to be able to get away with a slow spinning exhaust fan and a slow CPU fan. I'm almost disappointed that it was this simple, and that I won't get to use more of the R3's fan positioning options :P REAR EXHAUST: Included Fractal Design fan, on...

If you remove the sound dampening material (rather thin) to cut out a window, you would actually gain 3-4 mm in width. I can tell you tonight how thick the material is. Be aware that the sidepannels are really thin and "woobly", don't know if you run into stabilty issues once you cut out a window. r...

@falcon26: looks like 40% is the lowest you get, for me still barly audible at idle. 30% would actually serve me well.