Or get a pair of these: CAT# HS-80 Only $1.00 ea! Thanks for the link Rusty, I am going to pick some up locally in a bit and will report back. It looks like 2 on each side will do the job just right as the hard drives are 6 inches long. I just have a question on mounting them. By the design on thes...

yes actually I forgot to add that I also put 2 inch pieces of foam under the 4 bottom feet of the whole Tivo:) I should also note that the Tivo did not really need all the things I did above. As I said, I am just a bit obssesive;) I also sit in the room with the t.v. off and read and it is very quie...

Matt-man, I just switched my stock Sony T60 Directivo fan to a Panaflo 60mm 60L1A. Made a big difference. I replaced the stock Quantum hard drive with a Seagate Barracuda IV 7200rpm. Not only is it quieter but the menus and programs etc. come up much faster than the old 5400rpm. I also took the whol...

yes, even in my Tivo setup, the fan is to the right of the hard drive, and there is a metal plate between the two and... ahhh actually it's too hard to describe, but the fan is sucking hot air from the underneath (chips) of the hard drive only. The way the fan is enclosed in metal it does not pull a...

Many people in the Tivo forums narrowed it down to the Samsungs and Seagate's for quietness. A lot of people (including myself) are running the Tivo's without the cover (for cooling) so it is important to get it as quiet as possible in the livingroom area. Although I just put a Seagate Cuda IV in mi...

38 db, can it be that quiet!?

abcb, I posted here a few days ago and it seems like it got lost in the new server transition. Anyway, I have a few 4550's and most are very very quiet. I posted a couple of threads of the different Dell 4550 fans and noise. Do a search under my name if you want to read them. I am pretty sure the 82...

I did something similar on a computer. I used foam earplugs to isolate the fan from the case. I had to cut them in half but they work well since you have to roll them between your fingers first, and once they are in they expand back to their original size....

I also just bought a Panaflo L and is it surprisingly very loud at 12V, much, much louder than my stock Dell JMC/Datech which I will not replace with the Panaflo now. At 5 volts I found the Panaflo to be very quiet and not too bad at 7V, but there is not enough airflow to my liking. At 12V the airfl...

oh yes, I see it does, sorry i did not dig any deeper on that website, I dismissed it too soon! As I said above, what the heck do I know:( I like some of their closed cell foams too. I am thinking of different applications to use them with. I have only so far used closed cell sponge neoprene weather...

I think the reason they don't show prices are that those foams are all priced way too high and people would just leave the site. I guess by calling, maybe they think you are one step closer to buying them? I can't imagine it costs too much to make them. Ah what do I know.... On the foambymail site, ...

Sorry I don't know the product or the site, but today at Fry's I did buy the Zalman FB123 sold seperately for $9.95. They just got them, in a nice sealed retail package. It comes with the fan, bracket, fan mounting hardware and the noiseless 3 pin fan connector (it has a speed reducing resistor in i...

Couldnt you just use one of those eggcarton foam matress things? They sell them at walmart for $5-10. No they just don't work, it does almost nothing. I have read that, numerous times and still went out and bought mattress pads and other cheap foam from a company here called foam mart. The cheap st...

powergyoza, here is the link to their mass loaded vinyl http://www.illbruck-sonex.com/products/products_prospec.html, which they call "Prospec Barrier". I do not see it on that page anymore but, they also have it in the 'non-reinforced" version. Unfortunalety they took their price list off the site ...

hmm, I also noticed in D Temp, that the new drive has been running at a consistent 37C compared at 39C with the older one.

I just bought a brand new Barracuda 80GB ATA IV that I was going to install in my Tivo. I noticed the firmware version was 3.19 (listed on the label)compared to my older one (Barracuda 80GB) in my pc which is at 3.10. So I figured instead I would replce the old one in my PC with the newer drive and ...

Yes, it is ATX compatable I even installed one in one of my new Dell's and it works just fine. Very quiet also of course....

Ralf, which numbers are after the -04W? I found 5 different ones here:

http://www.nmbtc.com/pdf/dcfans/dc3610kl_v.pdf

Hi herb and cschofie, In my previous post, I wrote my Dell 4550/3.06 does not have proprietary wiring, it is standard atx wiring. I don't know about their other model numbers though but it seems like they have finally listened to the numerous consumer complaints. I just put a Nexus in with no proble...

Herb, I am curious as to what model/specs you have for a Dell. Will the Silenx work with your Dell as some have Proprietary psu wiring (I have the 4550/3.06 and mine does not). Also do you have the stock Dell green cpu/case fan ducting and if so, how are you going to replace it when you put the Zalm...

Hi Han, I found out that the large intake opening you see (say) at the top of the PSU, is actually the bottom of the PSU. They just show it like that to show people the venting. I just ordered one a few days ago from siliconacoustics.com. I called first and spoke to someone on the phone. I told him ...

BillyBuerger, my new Dell 3.06 ghz and old 1.7ghz both have a similair kind of fan shroud. I have not done any temp tests so all that I can tell you is that the air than blows out of the case fan (attached to the shroud) is much warmer compared to the power supply fan which is cool. It seems to work...

I am not sure about ceiling tiles, but there are huge differences in foam. Have a look at this site below. It has a fountain of information on general soundproofing. I learned a lot there for home noise control and you can apply that and some of those products to a computers too. For starters you mi...

powergyoza, I have tried motherboard monitor in this pc as well as my older 1.7gb Dell and all it picks up in the dashboard is the cpu. The Dells have no sensing built in whatsoever. I also just d/l and tried both Fanspeed and Speedfan. Fanspeed did not show anything and Speedfan at least gave me my...

Ralf, the Dell Bios does absolutley nothing. It is made propriertary for Dell (like almost everything else on this darn computer) and is as basic can be. I'm lucky I can even change the bios clock settings:) hehe Even the soundblaster card does nork without Dells modified soundblaster driver. I can'...

Hi Ralf, sorry I'm slow, a few people beat me to the answer but yes it's a Dell. The green thing is a fan shroud and a few people just told me it is thermally controlled. There is no fan on top of the cpu heatsink. Here are a few more pics of it: Also if you like check out these threads from me for ...

oh good, thank you for noticing that! Ithought it would be on the outer side of the fan, not in the middle... I was very close to buying the wrong replacement fan too. ok now, I was just looking at the Papst 3412N/2GL w/NMT-2 from http://www.siliconacoustics.com/papst3412n2gl1.html. What do you thin...

Thanks for the tips! I just bought and used both the snip and nibbler mentioned above and they both work well. The nibbler does a professional looking job as I have never done any metal cutting before. It only takes out a little piece at a time and does not bend the metal upwards in anyway. The snip...

The datasheet doesn't mention anything about thermal control. Can you see if the fan has a little thermister jutting out anywhere? Thank you for the answers. I do not see any thermal control on it anywhere. I was just assumimg it had as I saw another JMC fan in the "interesting fans recommened list...

I have a Dell Dimension 4550, 3.06Ghz. CPU has heat sink with no fan attached. The only fan other than the power supply is a case fan that is hooded to the cpu/heatsink. The JMC/Datech DS9238-12HBTL case fan specs are 1100-5100 RPM, 100 CFM and 51 DB at DC12V 1.50A. Does the fan normally/mostly run ...