It is designed from the ground up to be quiet. The rear exhaust fans are literally inaudible as is the PSU fan. If you use a quiet CPU fan like the Freezer 7 Pro and a quiet GPU cooling solution like the Accelero S1 w/Turbo Module, the loudest part of your system will be your hard drives. Arctic Cooling has a solution to quiet your hard drives as well and at first it scared me as I thought it would just bake my drives and turn them into $80 paperweights. . .
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