I'm working on a monster build
Help me make it as quiet as it can be, given the constraints below
- It is a watercooled TJ07.
- It has a large window
- From a "monster build" perspective, it puts cooling first and quietness a very close second
- It has to look cool, so it is can not have things like egg crate or bulky foam around
Some of the details:
- It has no HDD, just one or perhaps two SSD's.
- No case fan.
- No PSU fan (I'm hoping to water cool it).
- There will probably be 2 water pumps, but I'm hoping to suspend them and then encase them in a 1/4" thick lead box. At least 1 pump will be PWM controlled by the mobo.
- There is no weight limit for mass loading the case. I can add 50 lbs of lead to it if it helps. I'm not worried about toxicity at all, but I'm very worried about looks.
- The case is aluminum put together with screws. I can isolate the panels/connections with silicone sheet, but I'm worried it would not provide proper grounding. Then some really heavy mass loading may minimize the need to isolate panels.
- There will be a large window, but it will be of 1/2" Plexiglass.
- The case otherwise has large thin panels, but I'm considering mass loading them with 1/16" or 1/8" lead sheet and perhaps 7mm Acoustipack on top of that, although I much rather have only the lead because I can create a really cool pattern with it (I'm not worried about toxicity at all) and it would save me some space.
- The lower section of the TJ07 is dedicated to a 480 rad, 8 Gentle Typhoons in push-pull (running virtually silent at 600-700 RPM), and shrouds. A big weakness here is that I would like to use very open perforated metal sheet to maximize cooling at low RPMs. This is a very large opening, around 120x480 mm on each side of the case -- allowing cold air to be pulled in from the left and exit through the right without interacting with the rest of the case at all.
- There is a second 360 rad with another 3 Gentle Typhoons, also at low RPMs. Again a big weakness here is that at the top of the case I would like to use that same very open perforated metal sheet. Again a large opening, around 125x360 mm at the top of the case.
Unreality check.
- Yes, we have way more cooling than it is needed, but that is kind of the whole point of the build
- Hopefully, we would need little or no sound control since we do not have any noisy components, but then again... see above
So as you can see a lot on this project is about overdoing the overdone
Any ideas on the sound control? I can not really see much that can be done given that we have no space for egg crate or bulky foam and that we have huge openings. So the only thing I can think of is to mass load the heck of it and put the pumps in a lead coffin.
Ideas?