Nofan IcePipe A43-Z68 Silent PC

The product is completely silent indeed. Something really refreshing on the market. The only device I can hardly hear is HDD. Boot time is incredibly quick - up to 10 s. Cooling system seems to be working perfectly fine. Cores temperature does not rise above 60 C even when multitasking. Truly remarkable. No criticism at the moment. Communication with the company staff is positive - always willing to help. There is a price-quality trade off. Whoever wants to acquire truly silent and high end desktop (Windows Experience Index 7.4 out of 7.8), one must be ready to pay a bit more. Highly recommended. Thank you.

The NoFan PC has enabled me to reach my long-dreamt-of goal - total silence in the office. I spend many hours a day using PCs so any improvement in my work environment makes a big difference to me. Previous PC’s had lots of QuietPC goodies attached and succeeded in dramatic reductions in sound levels but nonetheless, when shutting down, there was a definite “aaahhh” moment when the fans go quiet and you realise how the background noise had gradually increased as the fans work harder to cope with elevated temperatures.

So, the NoFan: as noted by others it’s a bit odd at first and your brain compensates by “inventing” noise. The build quality is good and cabling is neat. I particularly like the front-mounted snap-in caddies for SSD’s. The only noise now emanates from the BluRay drive - a fluttering sound when accessing a disk - it’s almost inaudible but when it is active I now think “what a confounded racket”!

The CPU heat sink is large and works well (I have 16GB RAM and the fast i7 CPU). In the recent cold snap I had a wood-burning stove going full bore and overdid it - the temperature in the office was absolutely sweltering - so much so that my Apple iMac locked-up but the NoFan sailed on regardless. However herein lies the only significant criticism - the CPU heat sink is so large that it covers the highest-speed PCIe connector on the motherboard, rendering it unusable. My setup has four HD monitors so I need two double-connector PCIe graphics cards (I chose ASUS EN210 silent). Because these cards have large passive heat sinks they cannot occupy adjacent PCIe slots so I thought for a moment that I was stuffed - I could only have one ASUS, gulp. However, the NoFan onboard motherboard graphics has two connectors so I used those in conjunction with one ASUS and …. perfect. It seems that Windows is not bothered that the two graphics chipsets are different, the four-screen wall works seamlessly. (The onboard graphics can drive two monitors in full HD via one digital and one analog connection.) Because I’m using the system for software development I’m not bothered about high performance 3D graphics and so this configuration is more than adequate.

If you can deal with the one missing PCI slot, this system is solid, fast, well-built (I had the system within four working days of order) and totally, eerily and wonderfully silent. Trust me, you don’t know what you are missing until you give it a go. Best thing I have purchased in ages: nice one QuietPC.

Build quality of this machine is excellent, it’s fast and (when running off SSD) completely silent. The only thing that lets it down for high-end gaming is the graphics card options, which are decidedly mid-range. However, graphics is always the price you pay for passive cooling, and that component can be easily upgraded as lower-power higher-speed cards come out. The case is a cramped on the inside with only 3 harddrive slots, but it is built like a tank and easy to get into.

Very impressed with both the service from Quiet PC and the NoFen Nofan system. I specified a number of custom requirements for the system for both the hardware and software configuration which were all handled expertly. The system was delivered on time, packaged well and most importantly the system is near silent (bar the dvd and I opted for sata in hd enclosures rather than Solid state).

This is how an internet business should be, fantastic communications and great products. I’ll be back for more!

I’ve spent nearly eleven thousand pounds on goods from Quiet PC over the last few years and it’s fair to say I’ve not found a more knowledgeable or helpful company. I’ve had some excellent PCs in that time including several water cooled machines. Until now, the best ever was a Zalman TNN 500 based machine which was as close to silent as possible but it was still audible (just) if you stuck your ear next to it and anyway they don’t make the case anymore.

This PC is not audible at all! It is eerily silent. I now have four PCs running in my office and the loudest noise is the cat purring. It is what I’ve dreamed of for more than ten years (sad isn’t it).

I can’t recommend this PC highly enough, if you are serious about silence it’s worth every penny!

Chris