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Noise Reduction - HELP
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:31 pm
by chottoED
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?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 1:44 pm
by Judg3
You could do what a lot of modders do and get a BayBus, PCMODs sells a pretty decent one
for cheap.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 8:02 pm
by blade
See Pred's review on that Sunbeam fan controller. That IS the ticket.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 11:46 pm
by PreDatoR
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 12:05 am
by chottoED
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
Akasa acoustic mats - on a scale of 1 to 10
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 8:27 pm
by Augix
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 .
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 10:42 pm
by chottoED
two corcks????
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 10:49 pm
by nexus_7
Ear plugs.
Greg
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 10:54 pm
by chottoED
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)
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 3:25 am
by shaggy
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 4:22 am
by chottoED
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
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 11:16 am
by Judg3
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
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 1:17 pm
by chottoED
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