Are the fans ultra quiet?, anyone recc upgrading to the Noctuas? at all?
1251022
They're still pretty noticeable, not like jet engine but still fairly audible depending on how close you are to it. I sit fairly close to it and can hear it, its not obtrusive and if you have it far away you wouldn't notice it. I would try for quieter If it'll be close by you and Noctua's are always nice, but it you have it far away I wouldn't bother.
1251023
I don't know if the fans are ultra quiet. But I run them at their highest setting (they have 3 manual settings) & I have to stand close to my entertainment center with everything else in the room turned off & no sound from any other device in order to hear them.
1251024
I was pleased with the low noise level but also depends on your fan speed control (I.e. Motherboard) settings.
1324572
They are too loud for my taste at 12v. One by itself isn't too bad, but I have 11 fans on 3 radiators (Two 480s & one 360) and they are very loud. I had to get a fan controller to find the right balance between performance and noise. They do move a ton of air, but are very loud to me. I can't imagine how loud the non quiet edition ones are. I have tried so many fans over the years and a truly quiet fan that can still push enough air through a radiator just doesn't exist yet.
986924
There's two fans on the heatsink. About 4cm diameter. They're pretty quiet and only make a noticeable amount of noise of the cpu is heavily loaded.
1855956
None here. Runs cool and quiet. I prefer to manually turn up the fan speed to keep the card a little cooler (which, in turn, generates more noise) but even then, it's more than tolerable.
1324573
I feel the noctua are slightly louder but cool marginally better. Noctua make the new industrial fans that look good but are expensive.
1238303
most of these fans run loud unless you lower the speed of the fans. access the utility app for your mother board to lower the speed and then you will see the difference. these noctua are the highest rating and durability. not sure about the corsair fans.
1422830
At the moment,I'm running 2 Radeon HD 7950s and with all fans running around 30% and can't hear them at all{including the GPU fans} I've never had to run them at 100% for any reason but I'm sure there wouldn't be that much noise from the case. I'm really please with it. Hope this helps.
200717
The fans get pretty loud when gaming. They must be doing their job because I have not had an overheat problem yet. I wear head phones most of the time so the fan noise is no problem. I usually play with every thing maxed out as much as possible with no problems yet. The only thing I would recommend is get an MSI with a larger SSD than 128 Gig, it fills up very fast with todays games and it would be worth it. That is the only thing I wish I had done, other than that this thing is awesome.
1436418
Hi, With the stock 2 fans that the case comes with it's very quiet, You have to also count on how much noise your video addin card makes as well. If your only going to use the cpu built in video then there's really very little noticeable sound at all. My own setup is the ( 1 ) 140 front fan I have ( 2 ) instead of the stock ( 1 ) 120 mm fan on the one side and I also installed ( 2 ) 80 mm fans in the rear right blowing right across the motherboard cpu. I also am running a Duel fan Radeon 7870 video card. With my setup I hear a low humm with the case only about 1 foot away from my right ear.
940111
The fans move plenty of air however the front fans were a little loud for me so I swapped them out with some higher quality ones from corsair. Was a pain so only do it if they are too noisy for you.
860857
Honestly if you have a fan controller it doesn't really matter sound wise, more or less the same but with different fans. I changed my fans out on my h100i to SP fans(loud) and I have them running slow and quiet. Temps... Meh not an issue at 4.5Ghz X99 Haswell-e ...
940104
In terms of air volume, they're not the best, they can't push that much air through the air filters and get it to the center of the case. If you mean the noise, they're almost silent so you won't have any problems with that. The back fan is very silent as well and I feel like it can push more air than the front ones. As for gaming, the interior of your case may get hot, but this depends on how good your CPU and GPU fans are. I'd recommend not removing the case fans, but adding more to the top to get better airflow.
98597
No LEDs on the included fans. The included fans are quiet enough. My CPU fan is louder than both of them. As for coolness, I have all the fan slots filled so... yes? I think its a decent case for the price. It's got enough space for most GPU's and plenty of space for cables.
199389
The fans are quiet but I also have a ssd that helps keep the noise to a minimum. Some of the fans that came with the case not longer work :-/
286214
I am running sli gtx770's and there is absolutely no noise. Also have not heard any type of coil whine and cannot tell when the fan is on unless I am looking at it through the bottom of my case.
1481711
It is pretty quiet when just doing basic tasks(surfing the web basic games). The fans will kick on when under heavy gaming and evet then it's not loud at all. Overall the MSI is one of the best laptops I have owned. Hope this helps.....
535784
I'd say decent, except for one of mines was a little bit more nosier. I replaced them with Noctuas because I already had them from a previous case.