Fuzzy....none of your pics is showing...

Yeah, it's like we're denied permission or something.

Even the bits in the pics are quiet.  I can't even see them they're so quiet.

Is that better? I've even removed the corrupt smilies. Forgot how shite this site is...

Snazzy machine, now that we can see it!  

Holy mackerel is the video card encased in a giant heatsink? Pretty nice setup indeed.

My old thing is near enough to silent.  The only time you hear fans is at boot...then everything just goes back to idle.  One of the advantages of having a bigger PSU than you'll ever tax. [not to mention a serious case that is its own heatsink] ...

Very cool (no pun intended).

I very much like quiet PCs.

I'll take a slight hit to max perf to get a quieter PC any day.

I would take the extra performance myself.

A very nice machine indeed, Fuzzy.  Looks real nice.  However, I'm not too worried about fan noise, etc.... gotta have some sound to remind me that I'm alive.  

Seriously, my Coolermaster Cosmos II and Thermaltake Level 10 cases are very quiet, despite each having several fans and HDDs.  In the Cosmos II the OS runs on a M.2 SSD and the HDDs are generally idle unless I need to use one.  In the Level 10 the OS runs on a M.2 SSD mounted on a PCIE card... mobo doesn't have a slot.  Again, the HDDs are idle and silent unless I need to use one.

Anyhow, congrats on a nice build.  

There's a difference between quiet and silent. Despite how quiet HDs are, I can still hear them  

Thanks to the case's removable drive caddies and EZ-Swap system I only need to connect an HD when I need to do backups. Adds extra security too - if my pc does get hit by some nasty my extensive security misses, my backup drive is disconnected and therefore safe.

Oh, and it plays games really well. Doom 2016 is fabulous looking and so smooth.

Your hearing must be better than mine.  I generally hear little to nothing from either of my main PCs.  Mind you, both are very well insulated, especially my Cosmos II, which has heavy duty casing and dual layer doors to muffle most sound. 

Okay, maybe neither machine is totally silent, but they're both well within being tolerable as far as noise goes.  Put it this way, I rarely if ever hear them.  Mind you, I'm having to rebuild the Cosmos II case because I had to replace the previous mobo due to a fault that wouldn't allow the BIOS to post.

The replacement board, an ASUS ROG Crosshair Extreme VI, has a different design to the Crosshair Hero VI I had before, and the BIOS posts okay.  I'm going to load Windows on that machine when I'm done here at WC.  However, I doubt that the change of mobo will affect the level of noise ... or should I say the lack of it.

When I wake up in the morning I have to check the LEDs are on to know the computer's still running....as it does 24/7/365.

I believe the CPU fan's at around 500rpm but it's inaudible.

If I stick my ear against the 6 HD rack I can just hear the inlet/outlet fans for the stack...and the HDs are spun-down so they're silent....and the OS itself is on a M.2.

It really helps when your case is made from aluminium plate and not aluminium or steel sheet...

What about the HDD, SSD or M.2 SSD?  Gotta have one of those to load the OS on, right?