By Darren Allan
Be Quiet certainly hasn’t been hush-hush over at Computex, in fact it has been making plenty of noise about two new PC cases during the show, not to mention some other goodies including a cooler for AMD’s Threadripper CPUs.
The firm’s new cases are the Silent Base 601 and 801, and there are no prizes for guessing that these are designed to make for a PC which keeps noise levels to a minimum.
That means you get high-grade sound dampening materials (with up to a 10mm thickness) on the case panels, and angled intake air vents at the front for quieter operation. You can have up to three Pure Wings 2 140mm fans pre-installed, and a shroud for the power supply helps keep things looking nice and neat internally.
Both cases will come in a windowed variant, and one without a window, with different highlight colors available for the front panel. The Silent Base 601 is the smaller case which can fit up to three hard drives or six SSDs, while the bigger 801 has the capacity to cope with five hard disks or eleven SSDs.
And of course the larger 801 has more space for cooling gubbins inside, and a …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components