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Here's another good fan that's 2/3rds the airflow but 1/4 the size.

My old LC3 didn't have a single fan inside. Not on the Powersupply, nor on the chipset. Beautiful machine that. The subsequent 603e and G3 laptops didn't have a single fan either, but channeled heat directly into your sensitive bits. OK, it wasn't a perfect design, but it worked very well, and very ...

Ok, It's 9:30 AM, and I've been at this for over 12 hours now. I'm getting up at noon to have lunch with someone... That'll be interesting. Ok, I've added a layer of paxmate to the top, bottom, both inside walls, and the front, as well as the front facade and anything that might be internally reflec...

IIRC, someone here mentioned how leaving the fan in or better yet, closing off the 92mm hole is better for the PSU (convection effect?). I wanted to close up the rear holes so less noise escapes, but I see what you mean about the only air pathway. Forgot to mention there's an empty blowhole on top ...

good looking case there :), 1stly if u want the case to be quieter CLEAN UP YOUR CABLES, apart from constricting airflow the cables also cause turbluence noise as well, the fan in the bottom blowing on the HDD is also a big wide window for noise :roll: all well, u could duct it so that the noise wo...

A heat spreader might work in an enclosure. What I'm thinking right now is something suspending it by a netting in an enclosure with pass-through USB and Ethernet ports, with an open back and a 5v fan plugged into a cheap AC Adapter. Due to physical restraints, the enclosure would probably be a wood...

Silencing can be an obsession, and obsessions are never pretty. Here is my current rig, what I call the "Experiment Box," or "Big Geek," (after the submersible in the Abyss). http://www.cybercom.net/~seishino/Front.jpg Never ever put sound-deadening material on the outside of your computer... It rea...

Sorry, I never trust internally reported temperatures. Call me old fashioned, but I wedge a cheap temperature probe between my hard drives when I want to make sure they are still at 40 degrees. Probes can be had almost anywhere, and cost next to nothing. I'm currently using a cheap UEI probe from Fr...

Hello everyone... My roommate's laptop creates a ton of noise, but is usually used as if it were a simple terminal (the battery can't actually keep a charge) attached to an external moniter. Before she will let me hack the little thing open, does anyone have experience / tips cooling down and silenc...

Ah, you silence one part of your computer only to notice another is whiny and loud... It's a common tale. HD's are a loud bunch, but they are also some of the cheapest to quiet. Check out the rubber thread for more ideas.

One of my first experiments in silencing was to isolate the fans in the case with layers of double-sided tape and thick, soft foam. The results were disasterous. The foam wasn't firm enough to keep the fans held in place, and they began to oscillate rapidly in place. The resultant turbulance made th...

Here we have a Nokia branded 447L and a 21" Nanao FlexScan F2-21. Both are over 5 years old. The Nanao's picture is too fuzzy for our tastes, but we use it for web development anyway. Except for a slight high-pitched whine when your ear is within 1 inch or so of the grill area in the back, it makes ...

I had a 41" Technica that would de-gauss every time you turned the power on. It was quite impressive, too: it sounded like a giant metal gong had been hit by a drunken flying duck. It was very impressive, and made the turning on of the TV into an event like the discovery of the monolith in 2001. Too...

I use a PS2 as a DVD player, basically because we don't want to fund the MPAA bastards more than we already have. However, the fan was an unbearably loud, 60mm china-made offbrand fan with no bearings and bad circulation. It has been summarily excised. an 80mm Pflo has taken its place. But the syste...

seishino- at 5v, you can't really feel any air coming out... plus it's freezing here and my hand will sense any warmth if it's warmer than 0*C. i got 300w zalman psu.... what is a psu power failure like? it just powers down? or what's the story? i just don't want to do any permanent damage to the ps...

I know this is slightly off topic, but...

What about using a 80-120mm adaptor sucking INTO the case, with an undervolted 120mm fan? Would the lowered pressure behind the fan create a vaccuum of more noise, or is there enough space in the case to prevent a large difference in pressures?

-C

The most important thing is making sure the temperature inside the PSU / Case doesn't rise (too far) above the manufacturer's set threshold. Is the air coming out of the PSU hot? OK, and the onslaught of questions... is it a 150 Watt stock PS, or a 300 W enermax? What is the ambient temperature in t...

http://www.silentpc.nl/ check out this new fan. 19cfm and 11.7 db. dont know if this is really revolutionary though, considering the most silent papst is 19.4 cfm with 12 db. Nice, though. Papst fans have been in development for 20 years, while this type of case fan might have a way to go before be...

This way I have direct air flow on the video card, the drive is decoupled and cooled, my lady is happy, and more importantly, the computer is finally silent...err... quieter. Yeah, it never gets silent , just reasonably quiet. At some point you have to accept that it is quiet enough, fight the urge...

OK, I know I'm sounding foolish for asking this, but having done tech support for some time and I have to ask. Are you using the on button on the front of the computer in addition to turning on the power supply? While your old one may boot properly when connected to juice, your GIGABYTE GA-7ZXE appe...

shunx wrote:

stingpd wrote:air pump (silent) but with a very limited air flow

http://www.diann-bao.com.tw/prod01.htm

Yeah it seems very limited or useless for computer cases: 15L/min, that's only 0.53 CFM.

It also adds 14 W of heat to the case. Even if placed externally that's non-negligable.

You know, maybe I come from the kick-it-till-it-works theory of computing, but sometimes that is the only thing that seems to help. I upgraded my PSU recently (anyone want a nearly silent / grossly underpowered 150W psu?), and found that my motherboard wasn't booting beyond the RAM check. I reset th...

Welcome to the sickness known as the quest for silent computing... Lol! Ah, the significant others always learn that the amount of money pales in comparison to the time spent. Nice Case! Estoy Celoso. I could see the PAX mate helping that case though... it looks like it has two large swathes of met...

Call me idealistic, but would it be possible to use a Peltier attached between the case and a long heatpipe to pull heat from the CPU to the outside of the case, where you could mount a rather extensive series of fins? Would the distance between the peltier and the CPU prevent the nasty ice buildup ...

I accidently ran a P3 800 for several days without any fans and with a stock heatsink. The sink was warm to the touch, but not hot. I would definitely consider getting a later model P3 and clocking (if possible) back down to 800.

-C

If the vaccuum is being used only to silence and not destroy the drive (which may be a side effect), Why does the drive need to be englufed in a vaccuum? Doesn't it just mean that it needs to be surrounded by a vaccuum? So what we need is a wide, high-end thermos... the kind they use to keep soup ho...

You didn't mention a few things about your setup. I hope it isn't rude to ask. What kind of case are you using? What kind of power supply do you have? Are you using a reference noise to judge relative volume? www.bgmicro.com has 80mm Panaflos for 3 dollars (plus 8 shipping)... They are definitely wo...

Lol! The most foolish thing I have ever done to quiet my computer is to wrap the whole thing in a layer of that sawdust stuff. It crumbles everywhere, it looks *really* tacky, and it didn't have any noticable effect on the volume of the system. On the other hand, I can now post things to my computer...

>>From my little experience (based on web browsing and reading), it seems these are good factors for achieving the above: * All drive bays (HD/CD) at the front bottom of the system (this might interfere with expansion cards?) * No holes in the case for air intake except at the bottom front * Only ai...

I know this is a (relatively) dead thread, but I though I would pipe up here. I am currently (as in waiting for the glue to dry in the other room currently) building a hopefully silent HD enclosure out of an old ATX power supply. It appears to sit perfectly lengthwise in the bottom of my case, and h...