Noise Reduction - HELP

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:31 pm

Loud case.. loud fans...

what can i do to minimize the noise w/o going to watercooling?

question for owners of Akasa acoustic mats - on a scale of 1 to 10, how well does it work? are there better or cheaper alternatives that do not affect heat dissipation?

Judg3 · Post by **Judg3** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 1:44 pm

You could do what a lot of modders do and get a BayBus, PCMODs sells a pretty decent one for cheap.

blade · Post by **blade** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 8:02 pm

See Pred's review on that Sunbeam fan controller. That IS the ticket.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 11:46 pm

Yeah those Sunbeams are nice... if your fans are 4 pin and you don't wanna buy a shitload of 4 pin to 3 pin adapters find a dead psu and go to KDC and get some 3 pin ends and make your own custom cables for it.

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 12:05 am

hmmm i reaaranged my drives, cables, retied all loose cables, swapped out the P/S for a slightly smaller one... now it's all good

Augix · Post by **Augix** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 8:27 pm

Akasa acoustic mats - on a scale of 1 to 10

I think that Akasa dosen't work for me 2 points out of 10 , I bought that and nothing happened .
forget it , a better solution is two corcks .

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 10:42 pm

two corcks????

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 10:49 pm

Ear plugs.

Greg

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 10:54 pm

oh hehe..
i ordered an Akasa kit from SVC but they're out of stock.. just as well if you rate it as only 2 of 10..
i also ordered one of them spiffy fan controller thingamabobs

hopefully my rebates (currently at a total of $550) starts to come in.. then i'll be ordering myself a Koolance Exos....

any of you know how good they perform? (overclockwise)

shaggy · Post by **shaggy** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 3:25 am

After the fan on my GF4 died I switched it out with a fanless GF2mx while it was out for RMA. When it came back I realized just how loud it really was. It was actually the loudest part in my entire comp. I swapped it out with a Zalman zm80a-hp cooler and switched out my case fans with a couple 20 db. fans and now the loudest part in my comp is the hard drives. It probably isn't desirable if you oc your video card, but I have no complaints/crashes running at stock speeds on a ti4200.

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 4:22 am

i've tested the pc w/o the case fans.. it was definitely the 4 case fans making the noise..
each produces about 28decibel of sound

Judg3 · Post by **Judg3** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 11:16 am

Hey check out this article from Yoshi of The ScreenSavers

He built an air intake baffles, used Dynamat and other matting and built a PC thats 8db when on SIlent and 14db on "loud" mode

he says he cant hear it at all from 3 feet away

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 1:17 pm

that is a nice article.. but i lack the resources to construct all that... he used like 3 different materials and constructed air vent paths for the fans... there's no way any regular joe can do that w/o a LOT of time and money.

besides, my case has a window in it... why would i want it too look like his? fairly ugly