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I know nothing about Akasa fans and would stick with these brands:
Noctua
Nexus
Scythe
Unless I had a major over-riding reason to go with Akasa.
You can't really evaluate your cooling needs until after you build, so I would delay any fan purchases until you get the thing running and can check your temps and requirements.
Same. The only time I hear mine is when gaming, and then it is the fan on the video card and none of the fans in the case. Speaking of the case fans, it comes with a 120 mm (rear) and 140 mm (top) Antec TriCool's in it which I have both set to low. I also moved the one in the back to the front and replaced it with a 120 MM Scythe PWM fan so that it could be controlled by the bios.in fact one is sitting on my desk about 1 foot from me
That's because it comes with the 620W Neo ECO in it which is regularly around $100 alone. Not sure how it compares to the older Sonata III, but I just recently went from the Sonata II to the 300 and everything runs 5-10°C cooler in the 300.The Antec Sonata IV is very quiet, but far more expensive.
Please give Corsair a strong consideration also available in white!
Corsair CC-9011011-WW Carbide Series 400R Mid Tower Gaming Case - ATX, mATX, 4x Ext 5.25 Bays, 6x Int 3.5 Bays, 2x 120mm White LED Fans, 1x 120mm Fan, 2x USB 3.0 and 1x FireWire Front Ports at TigerDirect
Then stuff it with quality fans:
http://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NF-P12-...109844&sr=8-20
Then just because it's there and extremely quiet when running Noctua fans or speed controlled Corsairs:
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Series...7109934&sr=1-1
Corsair 500 in white.....how awesome is this? only the 600 is better!
Corsair CC-9011013-WW Carbide Series 500R Mid Tower Gaming Case - ATX, mATX, 4x Ext 5.25 Bays, 6x Int 3.5 Bays, 1x 200mm and 2x 120mm White LED Fans, 1x 120mm Fan, 2x USB 3.0 and 1x FireWire Ports at TigerDirect
If you speed control the fans then the stock fans can be lived with. I run my Noctua's wide open and they're inaudible....just the way I like things.