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natethomas
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From personal experience, I'd say the Acer Revo is fairly quiet, but you'll definitely hear it if you are putting it into a sound deadened room. If in a room with central air, otoh, you probably wouldn't hear it.
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Shuttle XS35GT is the obvious choice - completely silent, works well with XBMCLive.
It's on sale at Newegg for $190 I have heard (I don't live in the States)...
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bossanova, now thats what I am after. Compeltley fanless design.
I see in your sig you already have 1, do you use xbmc live through it and if so does it handle 1080p ok?
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I know you have fans already but I swapped to some noctua nf-s12b ultra low noise fans in my antec fusion case and have to say that they are nearly silent.
I got 3 of those, 2 for the case and 1 for the PSU and it cut the noise right down.
I also went for a Scythe ninja fanless cpu cooler and the gtx260 runs fans at 1% when in 2d mode and there is also a load of sound proofing in there too.
The loudest part of the PC is now the hard drives (raid) and I can even hear the slight buzz of the TV over it.
I know it's not answering your question but just wanted to make sure you had checked all options for the antec before you ditch it.
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i also have an antec fusion case and wasn't very satisfied with the fan noise until i accidently realized that i can lower the fan speed with a switch inside the case near the fans. i turned it to "low" (it was "medium" at first) and now it's very silent.
i am really happy with it now, never had any heat problems (cpu about 42%, gpu 65%-nearly 80%)