davidstone28 wrote:Why are you drilling out the cages?

I'm going to be putting a couple of hard drive silencers (either 2 Xilencers or 2 Smart Drives) in that area and filling the rest of the empty space with some egg carton foam.

Just wondering if anyone had the guts to drill out all of the bottom hard drive cages in their Lian Li PC-V2000 case? If so any issues that you've noticed? Any problems at all? I'm pretty well much ready and planned out a new rig and just wanted to see if there could be any stability problems if I t...

I hope either one of them do a review quick! I plan on purchasing a pair of the Smart Drive 2002C's if I don't see a review on the Xilencer anytime soon.

What would really be nice is a hard drive silencing enclosure round up. Find the most popular enclosures (such as the ones mentioned above) made to silence hard drives and use a reference drive to test just how well the enclosures can "silence" the drive as well as keeping it at a stable operating t...

Are there any stores near you that caries them? In that case I would go look at them and buy the heaviest of the two. High mass is a great way to silence something. Other than that, I was thinking about buying a Xilencer earlier, so I looked around the net for reviews. Couldn't find any. In the end...

I'm looking to buy one of these enclosures for my Raptor 74GB but not sure which one is better. Anyone have any experience with the Xilencer from AC Ryan? They seem quite similar cept from what I have read, the the back of the Xilencer is not pre-cut and you use a pen knife to custom cut it to fit y...

I dont have any grounding in positive\negative case pressure, so hopefully someone will correct this - but I think that having a 7v intake and 12v output causes a pressurisation in the case, which makes dodgy things happen (there's some technical info for you! :)) Also having the rad at the back of...

i would say dont passively cool the gpu the affect that watercooling it will have on the loop is minimal. do you have enough components in yur system so that the power supply is under high load and that is causing it to overheat from the load and from case heat. with the new case you will most liky...

Do the Hitachi's still have their meowing problem? For quiet, I would get a Samsung drive in a heartbeat. In fact, the Samsung notebook drive looks VERY tempting to me I know there is a post on this forum linking to a firmware to fix the Hitachi's "meowing" problem. I do own a couple 80GB Hitachi 7...

exactly how hot is the case getting. what are you cpu idle load temps. just curious If I were to put my hand on top of my case it is warm enough that my PSU fan (Enermax EG465P-VE) spins up full speed. From MBM it's saying 39C. But those readings can be completely off as all the readings on my comp...

well if you passivly cool the the video card it will most likely make the case temps go up even more. so i would recommend to just keep it water cooled and maybe just add a 120mm blow hole t the top of your case. i have heard people who get a 5c temp drop after adding a 120 mm blow hole. what kind ...

Currently I'm running a water cooling setup that's cooling both my CPU and video card. It does get generally hot if the side panel is closed and ususally the PSU fan speeds up. So I'm wondering if I should cool my Radeon 9600XT with the Zalman ZM80D-HP cooler or if I would be better off just having ...

All sizes of Papst fans I've tried have clicked when undervolted, except for the Papst 120mm FGL fans. 8) Seens to me that any Papst fans made in Hungary click, even the FGL ones! I have 3 120mm Papst fans (2 F/2GL and 1 FGL) and they ALL CLICK at default 12v and undervolting them! Wished I didn't ...

I have tried hard drive suspension for the very first time. I couldn't believe how much better it works over grommets! I found a very nice suspension material at Michaels. It is called Stretch Magic. I got the thickest they had, 1.8mm in a 3 meter roll for $2.49. It is a "high tech polymer that wil...

I wonder how they are able to hold so much weight on the motherboard like that..

Keep the Swiftech, it offers much better flow than a Ehiem, just takes a bit more work to quiet it down. www.mcmasters.com In the polyurathane section buy some 3/8" or 1/2" thinck Sorbothane and mount the pump on that. I've seen several posts here saying that is better than foam for deadening vibra...

Yeah, it's not gonna be solved via suspension. If I hold it with my hand it doesn't get any quieter at all. Slimeball, I'd say that the Smart Drive is pretty nice, for cooling and slight dampening of vibration, anyway. Remember my Raptor is one of the loudest drives you can buy, and it'd be great i...

Does suspending an HD reduce the whine? I don't think so. I have a WD1200JB inside a Smart Drive 2002c and I can still hear it whine. I placed the Smart Drive at the bottom of the case on top of foam and I could still hear it. Looks like the only solution to this is to buy a quieter HD. :cry: So it...

JVM wrote:I have the Papst 4412 F/2GL and I think it's terrific.

Is the Papst 4412 F/2GL and the Papst 4412 FGL the EXACT same fan other than the 3pin and 4pin connector?

suspending it The answer to all of life's problems. 8) :lol: Yeah but how would I suspend it? I have an Antec 3700AMB case and the bump right now sits at the bottom of my case having very little room to suspend it. I wouldn't know how to set it up so that it can be suspended at the bottom of my cas...

I've heard that if you mount the MCP600 with the inlet pointing up minimizes bearing noises. If you're not suspending it yet that would also be a good thing to do. So I should basically do both? Mount the pump so the inlet points upwards where the outlet should be pointing sideways. Suspend the pump.

Any ideas or suggestions to lower water cooling pump noise levels? I personally own a Swiftech MCP600 and I find it loud side.

Hey everyone. Thanks for the posts! :D I'm wondering now if I should be getting a PSU with a 80mm Fan or a PSU with a 80mm Fan and 92mm or a PSU with 2 80mm fans or should I just grab a PSU with 1 14cm fan (http://www.directron.com/sf550stainless.html?) The PSU with the 80mm and 92mm fans have large...

Yeah I'm going with Papst too!

sorenbro wrote:chylld, are you sure it was the 120mm versions that were compared? As far as I know there have only been comparisons between the 80mm and 92mm models.

http://www.bigbruin.com/html/acoustifan120.htm

Although I still want to compare the fans at equal rpms and measure the noise from there.

The sorbothane is available from www.mcmaster.com and is a 4x4 sheet 0.5 in thick the part number is 8514K55 and cost $7.32 (+postage...lots of postage to the UK! :shock: ) cut it into 0.5 inch strips and sit the drive on top. There's lots of details posted by Ralf on this site, sorry dont know how...

Any ideas what the best 120mm fan psu I can buy? Looking at 400W and above. Fortron Source? Seasonic?

hard to say. noise and airflow are related only at a very very general level. also, they use different types of motors and the fins are designed differently. there wouldn't be a significant difference in airflow between the two, though. CFM:Noise ratio would be almost identical to eachother then I'...

chylld wrote:i've heard that the papst is quieter and one person who compared these two fans chose the papst over the acousti.

i think they'd both be perfectly adequate - pick whichever is the cheapest one i'd say

If the Papst was quieter would you think it was blowing less air at the same time?

I'm going to be buying either two or three of these fans so which one is better???