Cooling Options
The Be Quiet! Silent Base 600 case was designed with good air-flow in mind to keep all your high-end gaming hardware running cool and reliable. There are six different case fan mounting locations along with support for liquid cooling.
Air Cooling
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The Silent Base 600 comes with two Be Quiet! Pure Wings 2 fans preinstalled. One 140mm intake fan on the front panel and one 120mm exhaust fan on the back panel. Additional fans can be added if you choose. For example, a second intake fan can be added to the front panel to blow air directly over the HDD cage and one or two fans can be added to the top for more overall airflow.
(140mm front intake fan – included)
(120mm rear exhaust fan – included)
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The following table lists the noise generated by the two included case fans while operating at different speeds. Sound Pressure Levels were taken 3’ from the front of the enclosure. The ambient background noise level was approximately 26 dBA.
With both fans running at full speed the noise is barely noticeable and certainly not loud while providing good baseline airflow through the case. Slowing the fans down still keeps a little air moving but quiets the case to a virtually silent whisper.
The Silent Base 600 enclosure is designed to support large, tower-style CPU coolers up to 170mm (6.7”) tall.
Overall, the Silent Base 600 provides excellent baseline cooling with minimal noise. Many users will be well served with the included two cooling fans but my personal preference will be to add a second 140mm intake.
Liquid Cooling
The Silent Base 600 case offers several options for installing either single or dual fan/radiator liquid cooling systems. For this review we installed two different liquid cooling systems, the Corsair H80i and H100i
The Corsair H80i liquid cooler uses a single 120mm radiator mounted on the back panel with two fans in a push-pull configuration. The bundled 120mm rear exhaust fan was removed prior to installing the H80i.
The Corsair H100i liquid cooler uses a dual 240mm radiator, which mounts to the bottom of the top panel. The Silent Base 600 case can alternatively mount a dual 280mm radiator up top if you prefer.
There is not a lot of extra space up top when installing a large radiator-fan combination. In our build, we had to slide the radiator as far as possible towards the left side of the case so that the radiator would clear one of the heatsinks on the top edge of the motherboard. To install a larger 280mm radiator, we would have to use thinner fans (15mm) on the radiator or a different motherboard. Note: A dual radiator mounted under the top panel will most likely block rear access to the top 5.25” drive bay.
nice review! but i cant help
nice review! but i cant help but feel castigated for liking these cases. no! you be quiet! bunch of jerks XD
I like this even more than my
I like this even more than my Silent Base 800. The SB800 is too big. As usual, wait 6 months and there will be a new computer part -better, cheaper, smaller- than the awesome thing you buy today… sigh 🙁
i wish that same logic
i wish that same logic applied to my wife n kids…essh. “what did daddy say about fallout time!!??
“i’ll pull this car over, and
“i’ll pull this car over, and make you upgrade to win10!”
Yet another “me too” design.
Yet another “me too” design. Could be from any one of a vast number of case manufacturers. With exception of Fractal and Silverstone case design has got stuck.
Here are my list of the things wrong with the design
1. The power button – placed so pointless if computer is under a desk
2. The case is 230mm wide but can only use 140mm fans? Come on use 180mm fans
3. All that hard disk space – why? If you want a lot of HDD space buy a NAS.
4. Fat radiators do not fit up top – Fractal cracked that problem years ago
5. Can someone please come up with an elegant solution for the power cables to the GPUs so not as messy
Please recommend a “quiet
Please recommend a “quiet case” that has the features you listed above. I’d like to build a new desktop, but it must be quiet..tend to keep my PC’s for years past their prime..not an early adopter…
I am thinking of adding extra
I am thinking of adding extra fan/fans to my “600” case and wondered whether two at the top or one to make the “push/pull” arrangement with my water cooler radiator would be best?
looks similar to my
looks similar to my coolermaster 590III