On Friday 27 September 2002 11:21 am, you wrote: > Several replies to Mark Berkwitt's post seem to imply that noise level > depends on the case. I thought noise level was determined by the fans, > especially the CPU fan, since that's the big one. > > Will putting the same fans in a different case change the noise level? > > I currently have a Thermaltake Volcano 7 in a Futurecase case. The noise > level is sometimes annoying. Would moving it to different case reduce the > noise? > > Mike Knee Since most consumer cases come with power supplies and most power supplies have a fan, well, yes changing the case can make a difference. Or maybe just getting a new quieter power supply for the case you have will help. Computer noise comes from the fans and the drives - about the only moving parts in the computer. Dennis Kibbe