Be Quiet BG005 SILENT BASE 600 Computer Case - Orange

I was always a case skeptic. If everything fitted and I could wedge the cables under something, I was happy. Boy was I wrong. This purchase was necessitated by a lack of research on my part, casually skipping past the length information of my new graphics card. Noob mistake. However, I have never been more happy to make a noob mistake. This case is the following :-1. Beautifully made for the price.2. Beautiful looking without looking like it's auditioning for Star Trek.3. Beautifully quiet.4. Beautifully easy to build into.5. Beautifully merciful on the wallet.My only gripe? The thing is so quiet I can hear my hybrid drive in there like it's spinning rocks in a washing machine. Now I'm dropping £400 on an M.2. Well worth a purchase over a lot of more expensive cases, save perhaps NZXT, who are doing an eye-blisteringly beautiful range at the moment.Anyway, buy it if you're money is tight and you want to be happy!

Excellent design. This is the first time I've built a PC without cutting my paws! Without fitting additional cooling gear the CPU and graphics card are running without clock speed throttling.The build quality is good but not as good as you'd expect if it was built in Germany.

Over all I'm very happy with this case. Its solidly built and allows for lots of build options. The only real criticism I have is the lack of helpfully positioned tie offs for cable management. Given the attention that's gone into other aspects of cable management, this seems a silly omission.EDIT: Have lived with this case for over a year now, and for the most part it's been OK. However in that time I've also learned more about case design and I have to say that it's very restricted in terms of air flow through the front, as an inspection of the front panel will quickly reveal. Now I know this is done deliberately to deaden sound, BUT the problem is that if air can't move then front fans have to work harder, which increases noise. So the theory only works if you're not generating that much heat to ramp up the PWM and spin up the fans. If you use the case fan controller of course, without monitoring you could be pleased with how quiet it is while slowly cooking your CPU to a possibly shorter life span.I'm going to mod the front panel so the fans can draw air directly in, rather than through the silly side vents (which are also obstructed by the mesh mounting) - the idea is to drill a hundred or so small holes to allow the fans to work less hard when the PWM spins them up. Hopefully I'll do a neat enough job, but I suspect anyone who's watched Gamers Nexus would be reaching for their drill, same as me ;)

Beautiful case with excellent engineering and attention to detail. I buitt the PC using a lot of BeQuiet parts and it was ultra quiet even before I put the case together but once assembled total silence - what a wonderful improvement in my working conditions!

Awesome, quiet as mouse. Could run it next to a baby's crib. Loads of room. Only issue, and it is a small one. There is a dust tray on the bottom that can only be removed from behind the machine, meaning the PC needs to be pulled out of where it is by a significant amount before access to tray is granted. TBH, not a major issue.

I built a developer workstation and one of the main priorities for me was silent operation. I decided to go without overclocking to keep the noise and the cost down. The components I chose:Case: Be quiet - Silent Base 600PSU: Be quiet - Straight Power 10 500W 80 Plus Gold Semi-ModularCPU: i7-6700 3.4GHzCPU Cooler: Be quiet - Shadow Rock SlimMotherboard: ASRock H170M PRO4RAM: HyperX FURY Black Series 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) 2400 MHz DDR4HDD: Samsung Evo 800 500gbAs you can see, all "noisy" components are sourced from Be Quiet.The CPU Cooler and the PSU are absolutely 100% superb - inaudible in normal operation.By far the weakest component in the above list is the case, the SILENT BASE 600, due to 2 reasons:- the assembly was challenging, top and front panels are very difficult to remove.- the two case fans (Be Quiet Pure Wings 120 and Pure Wings 140) are by far and away the noisiest parts of the build (when the HDD is in sleep mode). At full speed, I would describe the fan noise as very loud. When brought down to 20%, the fans are not loud but audible. The fan noise is very unpleasant and attracts attention.- When the HDD is on (I use it for media storage), the case actually resonates in low frequency and becomes clearly audible, almost loud.The verdict: either I have dodgy case fans or should upgrade to Silent Wings 3 120 + 140. The case was not cheap so it is disappointing. Still, I'm a Be Quet fan, because the CPU Cooler and the PSU, as I said, are absolutely superb.

None of the apertures in the rear of the case is wide enough to accept a vertical USB connection

I'm very happy with this case which I used to build a new DAW for my studio. Silent operation is important and this is very quiet indeed. Easy installation of 2 x SSD and 3 x HDD. Perfect!