Three other reviews make it a point to mention that the case is downright quiet, contrary to what one might think if you didn’t hear it first hand.
With four fans installed out of the box and room for three more, Antec manages to avoid all the noise that normally accompanies such a fan-laden box. Even the large 200-mm exhaust fan on top operates almost silently while pulling a sufficient amount of air out of the case. Overclockers will likely have some fun seeing what they can get out of a rig like this.
Speaking of the fans, you might think that the Nine Hundred would sound like a vacuum cleaner, but it’s actually the lowest-noise PC enclosure that I have here. Even when all of them are switched to the highest setting, the Nine Hundred still purrs right along. More than likely your video card and CPU fans will make significantly more noise than this chassis will.
Looking at that massive TriCool 200 mm fan from the inside reveals just how much bigger than a 120 mm it really is. Just like the 120 mm TriCool fans, the 200 mm is also adjustable with a tree position switch. I set this on medium and the fan silently pushes a ton of air. On high the fan is audible but for an overclocked system this fan can really pull hot air out of the top.
I’ve seen the case in person, but it was not turned on so I really can’t say first-hand if it’s loud or not. But right now it’s three to one in favor of the Nine Hundred being quiet despite its copious fanage.
the not very quiet in the (-) area was probably in reference to the fact that the case has no silencing to dampen hard drive vibration and it has an open window so all the noise from the CPU and video card is going to come right out
those quotes about are talking about the just running by itself.
I’ve got it and it runs cool AND quiet, period. Yes, hardrive noise is an issue for me. Antec didn’t seem to really care.
If HDD noise is an issue for you as for me Larry, try zalman heatpipe silent hdd cooler (with those lovely rubbers to dampen and decouple hdd vibrations, instead of antec’s default hdd cage (and obviously fix the front covers!!!!!).
Bye!
i’ve got his case, and even with the fan controllers all set to low, it generates a good amount of noise, much more so than your run-of-the-mill Dell/HP box.
I just recently got an Antec Nine Hundred and I was shocked as to how quiet it is considering it has four fans in it. As others have pointed out, hard drives in this case can be a bit noisy since there’s not much to dampen the noise in the front of the case.