Foam from new motherboards

[Slidax]

Do any of you acoustics experts believe that the piece of foam that comes with new motherboards would be any good at case dampening.
I know it doesnt have those fancy properties real dampening stuff has but surely it would absorb some sound.

Im asking this because i might pick up some from a shop tomorrow (free of course)

thanks

[Freelancer77]

Do any of you acoustics experts believe that the piece of foam that comes with new motherboards would be any good at case dampening.
I know it doesnt have those fancy properties real dampening stuff has but surely it would absorb some sound.

Im asking this because i might pick up some from a shop tomorrow (free of course)

thanks

Not really. The only thing that foam is good for is cutting into filters in high dust areas. It flows air pretty well, but isn't dense enough by half to provide any acoustic damping. And it's only about 3/16" thick, not enough mass to even accidentally reduce vibrations where it's mounted. Sorry.

[Gholam]

That depends, I've got a sheet that came from a boxed Intel server board; it measures 37x42cm and 3.5cm thickness. Quite stiff too.