230mm Fans VS 120mm Fans

Apples and oranges here. You are comparing the 230mm fan on the top of the HAF with the 120mm fans on the Antec front and back instead of the 200 mm or so fan on the top of the Antec case.

I have an Antec 900 with the fans set to LOW. Good temps (Q9550 OC'd to 3.6 GHz., P95 load, 58 - 61 C.). Running the fans faster does not improve the temperatures. Good thing too. MED speed is not too bad, but HIGH sounds like freaking vacuum cleaner setting on my desk.

Smexy. $300 for a quality i7 loop. Add to that for a GPU to the loop IF you have an old GPU card.

Smexy and $$ is a diff reality.

There have been technical reviews and comparisons of the two cases. A few days ago I read a technical review and comparison of 5 pc cases. The tests involved measuring the ventilation, airflow, and cooling performance of the cases. A veriety of cpu, gpu, chipset, and hard drive temperature measurements were taken at idle and full load. The CoolerMaster HAF 932 won hands down, especially at full load. The Antec Twelve Hundred and the CoolerMaster 690 also did very well. There were two lesser known cases that did not do well. I didn't think to bookmark the review for future reference.

im undecided weather i should go with air cooling or water cooling, as water cooling is much more expensive, and i myself am a newbie, so it'd be much easier for me to stick a heatsink on and use the stock fans, btw, should i change the cases stock fans? or are they just fine

A haf 932 coupled with good air cooling is a great start for someone new. It's a great idea to get aftermarket air at less than 1/2 the cost to learn about overclocking and what ya can do.

I dunno, you tell me. Find stats on the fans that come with the case and compare it to places like this:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forum [...] p?t=202394
Look up fan reviews, work the brain............. deep stuff there on XS.

And of course you can remove the fans in the case, need a few basic tools. Some one had to put them in, you should be able to take them out............

Of course the 1200 is just as good for your needs. Each fan has a 3 way speed switch in the case to adjust the speed, but I'm sure you knew that. Antec Tri-speed fans are almost popular due to 3 speed out of the box/case.

cooler master haf is a eatx case so it's gonig to have a bit more room. From the pics it seems to support at least a dual 120mm rad uptop. I'd give the points to the cooler master haf as the better case. Although I personally like the look of my antec 1200 a lot more.

i just bought the HAF 932 case and I was also wondering if:
230mm fans make less noise than 120mm fans at same speed, but push more air

NM

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 05-10.html

Antec has a lower in case ambient temperature, but the HAF has better CPU and GFX temps. I would attribute this, at least in part, to the fact that the 1200 was tested "stock" w/o the two optional fans which are directed at the CPU and GFX card.
Acoustically, the HAF does betetr at idlke and the Antec better under load.

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