thanks powergyoza i did read this through - an excellent (Mis)use of agricultural supplies. i actually have a similar set up at present. albeit with neoprene washers rather than castration bands. however i find an unsatisfactory amount of vibration gets through to the case. some of my fans are on ru...

id guess that its about 60 or 70 cents, i have no idea what it would cost to ship these units, far too much for a 'parcel delivery' however i can find ut about sending them just plain airmail. unless of course we make this even more complicated and i ship a job lot to you in the us at parcel rate an...

i have contacted a manufacturer of the elastomer gel mounts in the UK thay have sent me a price list etc. to cut a lot of waffling out if a can buy more thant 100 of the mounts it brings the price (including VAT P&P and enough to cover the postal price to send them on again) to around 50p each. ther...

thats the one i read, cheers Marvin.

thanmks, it was the right stuff i found in wickes. like i say i just thought it would be thicker. i shall buy some of the really wide stuff and put a couple of layers on. it certainly cant hurt. (uless i hapen to change the resonant freqency of th case to exactly that provided by the fans, now that ...

ive read that people have had trouble with the zalman psu whining with a radeon 9700pro. it seems the exra power connector the radeon has can cause the whine. ill dig out the link to the post if you are interested, or no one confirms this first hand.

Just in case its of interest, i have now moved the psu fan outside of the psu case. it has cut the noise down considerably, however there is still a fair bit of vibrational noise as i havent yet got hold of any elastomer fan fixing grommets. i have also blocked the hole where the second fan was remo...

the way i have done it is to take the wire for the fans out of the psu back (the grill oposite the rear fan) and then put a standard three pin connector on it. i have put it onto a mobo header, with a 100k pot inline, this way i have speed controll and can monitor the fans rpms so as to shutdown if ...

yes thats about right, you may want to poke the capacitor leads into the fan connector before putting the fan onto the mobo header, if not then be careful not to touch anything on your mobo with the bare capacitor leads- as a general rule shorting things are bad!

the type of capacitor is of little interest to you application. the different types refer to the dialectric material., its the stuff between the capacitors plates and effects the breakdown voltages and total capacitance of the device. as i say for this application it matters not. as to the max volta...

just been having a skim of the data sheet for that capacitor and looks as though ist should work fine. i would go out on a limb and say is very unlikely that you damage your mobo, however be very sure your soldering is good and you have not shorted the wires (ie the red is or could touch the black)....

i have just come back from a trip to my local hardware stores. wickes and a little local shop. i had a look at the roofing tapes. basically i wasn't sure it was the stuff you meant, as it was very thin, less that 1mm and not nearly as heavy as i had imagined. i was thinking it would be a good 2mm th...

feel free to shoot this down entirely, but if you want to isolate the psu, then would it not be more simple to duct in some fresh air in to the psu? eg a tube running to a 80mm hole from the top of the case to the cpu intake. i ask more to find out the disadvantages of my suggestion than to offer a ...

i have a zalman 120mm fan running over an AlCu flower. it wa snoisy as satans very own lawnmower even write down as low as the fanmate would go. i got to fiddling and tried a speed controller i was using for another fan. this (according to my multimeter) delivered a new minimum voltage of three volt...

thanks a lot, i did read through your post about the carpet underlay and the like, however it seemed to me that wood would be a better sound absorber (i based this on nothing other than that was what my brain said) hence if this bitumen based tape will do the job i shall head down to wickes as soon ...

i have read through the posts that have come before, however i would like you advise on some of the options i have found. i have a cheap Aluminium case that is very thin. it does very little to deaden any noise. I know most of the noise will be escaping trough the back, but i have several strategies...

fair enough. i would be unsure of beleiving th evercool figures, but ill retract my previous acsorbic comments untill proved otherwise. do you have any independant noise measurements? i would suspect that with these two fans runing, in a pci slot, they are louder than thunder, however if thats not t...

not only a gratuitous advert but surely fairly inapropriate. a 60CFM set of fans to replace a tiny screeming gpu cooler? perhaps overkill, and definately missing the point. did you not read the url before posting? there is a givaway - SILENTpcreview.com.

its a geforce 4 ti4200. the heat sink is cool to the touch even right on top of the chip (though there is thermal coupling with the chip itself. it is only the one patch directly above the gu that could be called hot, it can burn a little if you hold your hand on it for a long time. i would be inter...

i have mounted a quite fan as in the picture above, it seems to cool the board enough, however the top of the board the other side of the gpu is very hot to touch, im not sure if it was that hot when running the stock hsf, but at least its a darn site quiter. the zalman bracket seems to transmit an ...

thanks for moving it, i am a moron.
i shall have a read through your advice tomorrow. thanks a lot for your help.

i think the tape is certainly an excellent idea, although im not certain it would remove all the vibrations. i went through several types of foam before getting one that took all the hdd vibrations out. do you get any transference of vibrations? as to the velcro, certainly an ingenious solution but ...

noted, and apreciated. i dont feel that the ones in the psu are any more liable to heat problems that the others as they are mostly outside the psu box and the inside parts are certainly not near the really hot bits. but as i said i will keep a good eye on them and look for a better solution. many t...

i have replaced the standard fan in my q-tec (the cheap ones) psu with a noiseblocker ultrasilent s2, i am pretty happy with these fans and the other case fans i have mounted are al but inaudiable. however the one in the psu still kicks out a lot of noise. it too is mounted using rubber bands, there...

good advice, i will keep my eyes on them, although i hope to find a more hard wearing replacement before this becomes an issue.

i have found no suppliers yet to the uk, and certainly none of them at reasonable prices, so i took fetaost's advice and spent 60p on a giant bag of rubber bands, i have mounted all my fans with them and there is now, NO vibrations being passed to the case by them (not least that i can feel) i would...

01993 - 878703 is the real number. i have sent them an email asking if they are the correct ones or just washers. ill let you know if i get a response.

has anyone got anywhere on suppliers yet? specifically in the uk?
i do think the silicon acoustics price is a little steep for for small pieces of rubber/plastic. although the amount of people i have seen trying to offload standard rubber washers as specialist devices is a little offensive.

cheers

cheers for your answers. i am not too confident about running less fans, i obviously cant take the one off of the cpu and graphics card and i dont really want to leave the psu fan with the job of getting all of the cool air in and out of the machine as well as cool the psu. i will attempt stopping t...

i now have the fans fitted and running. i must say that they do seem a lot louder than i imagined. they came with the pots and connectors to let me undervolt them all to around 5v. but even then theres still an audiable hum. i still want to put some noise absorbant foam onto the side panels though. ...