Any recommendation for a Vertical Low Profile silent case?

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osanjose
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Any recommendation for a Vertical Low Profile silent case?

Post by osanjose » Sun Nov 03, 2013 4:08 pm

I'm looking for a low profile silent case for a micro-ATX board that can be arranged vertically (just to reuse components for another old horizontal case I can not use anymore). Any recommendation for such a vertical case?

Thanks in advance

Oscar

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Re: Any recommendation for a Vertical Low Profile silent cas

Post by quest_for_silence » Sun Nov 03, 2013 4:21 pm

Which is the mobo?

osanjose
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Re: Any recommendation for a Vertical Low Profile silent cas

Post by osanjose » Thu Nov 07, 2013 4:51 am

It is a Gigabyte h55m-usb3 board (2 dual core i3 processors)

The current case also includes

AMD radeon 6670 low profile (with fan) graphics
Western Digital wd20EARS-00mwb0 Hard disk
4gb RAM
WINTV Nova TD-500 Tuner card
LG CH10LS20 Blu-ray

Thanks
Oscar

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Re: Any recommendation for a Vertical Low Profile silent cas

Post by osanjose » Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:46 am

Any sugestion?

Thanks

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Re: Any recommendation for a Vertical Low Profile silent cas

Post by quest_for_silence » Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:57 am

osanjose wrote:Any sugestion?


Sorry, AFAIK no: IME the main issue with any slim enclosure is that it usually sports a TFX/SFX PSU, which (in order to be silent) deserves a fan swap (often not feasible as they use slim fans), and/or to drive that PSU fan through an available external fan header (which your mobo doesn't have): even suitable aftermarket PSUs (such as Seasonic gold-rated TFX, or beQuiet! one) are far from being "silent", out of the box.

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Re: Any recommendation for a Vertical Low Profile silent cas

Post by osanjose » Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:04 am

Thanks anyway. :-)

Oscar

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Re: Any recommendation for a Vertical Low Profile silent cas

Post by fuzzymath10 » Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:54 am

I was quite happy with the NSK1480. There is a documented mod at the end of the review here to replace the 80x15 fan with a 80x25 one of your choice.

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