My friend Charlie needed a new PC for his office, and since the excellent Antec P150 is not yet available in Europe, we got a Sonata II. Unfortunately, the Smartpower power supply included did not play well with the Albatron 925 M/B, so I installed a Fortron that was lying around. Still waiting for news from Antec support.
It's fairly quiet with all fans at the lowest settings. It's in his office, so extreme quieting methods were not needed. It idles in the low 40s, 100% load in the mid 50s. Hard discs are always below 35 degrees. I liked the case overall, but hated having to remove the M/B in order to swap PSUs.
We didn't enable the Speedstep function yet, to check how it lowers temps, and therefore lower fan speeds even more.
Specs:
CPU: Intel 630
M/B: Albatron 925X
RAM: 2x512Mb Kingston DDR2
GPU: Asus 6200 T/C
HDD: WD160JS, WD250JS
DVD-R: NEC 4550
DVD-ROM: TEAC 516
FDD: Mitsumi
PSU: Fortron 350THN
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