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Project: "Night Wind"
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:24 pm
by IceWindius
Evening gents, thought i'd post a link to a worklog I have in progress for my newest project: "Night Wind'' Feel free to comment with suggestions, ideas or questions.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=896025
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:33 pm
by miyagi
nice drive mounting
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:33 pm
by ONEshot
Why did you use the Stealths? I think if you even so much as sniff this forum , you'll sense the unworthiness of this fan in a quiet case.
By the way, you might want to cite where you're getting a lot of those pictures.
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:43 am
by Ralf Hutter
Nice work so far!
You should think about posting a slightly rewritten* version of that here in the SPCR Gallery, it would make a pretty decent "how-to" sort of feature.
*I'd remove all those hot-links to the various copyrighted photos that you've included in your [H] postings. At least that's a bit of a violation of "netiquette", and at worst, some of the larger companies certainly wouldn't appreciate you using their own pics to illustrate your article.
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:00 am
by m0002a
Haven't we seen some of those pics before? And some of the comments about disk drives seem quite dated (IBM sold its disk drive business to Hitachi a couple years ago) and Western Digital drives made in 2005 with FDB are much better than previous models.
The drive mounting system using the Sonata trays seems similar to the one I posted here about a year ago:
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=10450
But it would work even better if the screw mounts from underneath had foam cushioning, and the foam itself is a too light to absorb much shock (although I am sure it does a good job isolating the drives).
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:55 pm
by x1m
Regarding the HDD suspension using elastic wire: I urge you to reconsider this idea.
Suspending HDDs in this manner will severely reduce performance (up to one-third, or worse) and in the long term may actually be harmful to the HDD.
The solution I used was to mount aluminium U-brackets to the sides of each HDD. Then I attached smaller pieces of U-brackets to those brackets, with rubber rings between them, so that there's no metal-to-metal contact. Those latter U-brackets are then used to mount the entire contraption in a 5.25" bay.
This way, the HDD is virtually silent (except for seeking noise and such), yet performance is not impacted, plus the drive is cooled even better (the U-brackets act like heatsinks).
That seems a bit of a large claim to me.
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:58 pm
by miyagi
that's because it's verbal feces.
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:42 pm
by IceWindius
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:11 am
by Ralf Hutter
IceWindius wrote:Project "Night Wind" is completed.
Very nice looking setup homes!
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:17 am
by Techno Pride
to replace the power and hdd leds, basically you just pull out the original ones and push new 3mm ones in by hand (fingers)?
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:28 am
by tay
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:11 am
by IceWindius
Techno Pride wrote:to replace the power and hdd leds, basically you just pull out the original ones and push new 3mm ones in by hand (fingers)?
Yep, antec cases have been doing that for years, makes it really easy to swap out LED's.
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:12 am
by flyingsherpa
nice project.
my one question is why you would take the time to paint the optical drive faceplates, but leave the tray fronts white?!? i'm guessing you didn't know that those come off very easily: with the pc powered on, eject the tray. the fronts pop up and off. i've done this to several drives without damaging them. you can paint them just like you did for the face plates and then pop them back on.
actually, you need to pop those off to even remove the face plates. hmmm. maybe you painted them without removing them and just masked everything off?
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:14 am
by IceWindius
flyingsherpa wrote:nice project.
my one question is why you would take the time to paint the optical drive faceplates, but leave the tray fronts white?!? i'm guessing you didn't know that those come off very easily: with the pc powered on, eject the tray. the fronts pop up and off. i've done this to several drives without damaging them. you can paint them just like you did for the face plates and then pop them back on.
actually, you need to pop those off to even remove the face plates. hmmm. maybe you painted them without removing them and just masked everything off?
Actually, they ARE painted. The bottom one is painted white while I left the Plextor one alone as I liked the black shiny plastic bar on the bottom of it, but im more then capable of painting it, I just didn't feel the need. I've painted several drives by taking the faceplates off. MUCH easier then masking the entire drive and trying to paint it without ruining it.
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:12 am
by Mockery
Awesome. Great glossy paint job, I can see your house!
Now i feel inspired to do something to my own sonata.
For some reason, I cannot load the page at HardForum. What controller thingo is that, in between your optical drives?
(and do you like it, or would you get something else?)
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:33 am
by Techno Pride
thanks.
how about the annoyingly bright leds next to the usb ports? can they be replaced as well?
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:23 am
by IceWindius
Mockery wrote:Awesome. Great glossy paint job, I can see your house!
Now i feel inspired to do something to my own sonata.
For some reason, I cannot load the page at HardForum. What controller thingo is that, in between your optical drives?
(and do you like it, or would you get something else?)
Its an Aerogate II and I like it alot. Very stylus yet functional at the same time. Looked at alot of different controllers and this one just fit the bill nicely. Only thing I grip about it is the stupid metal tabs that attach to the case are aluminum and flex to easy making it hard to stay in place
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:25 am
by IceWindius
Techno Pride wrote:thanks.
how about the annoyingly bright leds next to the usb ports? can they be replaced as well?
There actually not that bright, I believe Antec actually wired up a resistor in later versions of the Sonata to reduce brightness and mine has one. If there that annyoing to you, yes they will require stripping and soldering to replace.
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:09 pm
by omega_1
well ive said it on fm, and ill say it again, that is one hell of a nice pc...looks and i bet performs like a beats, congrats.
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 10:38 pm
by Tibors
IceWindius wrote:Techno Pride wrote:how about the annoyingly bright leds next to the usb ports? can they be replaced as well?
[...]yes they will require stripping and soldering to replace.
No they don't. The leads of LED's are just pushed into a two pin plug.
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... 833#176833
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 9:12 am
by IceWindius
Hmmm thats odd, cause mine don't have them. Antec apparantly changed them.
Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 10:36 am
by IceWindius
Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 10:46 am
by GUNNER
What's the grill addition do to the noise level?
Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 11:10 am
by tay
Go with a black grill. The shape of the grill holes isnt nice enough for white IMO. Awesome fit n finish though.
Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 11:10 am
by Rene
GUNNER wrote:What's the grill addition do to the noise level?
Air flow maybe? I've been playing around with doing something like that myself with my sonata. How is it working out? any improvement in temps? Do you get much noise coming through the grill?
Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 11:53 am
by IceWindius
Rene wrote:GUNNER wrote:What's the grill addition do to the noise level?
Air flow maybe? I've been playing around with doing something like that myself with my sonata. How is it working out? any improvement in temps? Do you get much noise coming through the grill?
The purpose was for airflow as the case was still sufficating to much as a result of 3 exhaust fans and not enough air intake. Now the fans are moving much more air and my temps have dropped around 2c. I can't tell any difference in noise output, my Seagates are pretty quiet thanks to the foam mounting.
Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 12:09 pm
by BrianE
I like the colour scheme you have for the rest of the case, and I think it really looks great, but I agree with Tay that the grille should be black instead. White seems too contrasting to the other colours IMHO.
But if YOU like the white, then stay with it of course, because that's what really matters!
Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 12:19 pm
by IceWindius
BrianE wrote:I like the colour scheme you have for the rest of the case, and I think it really looks great, but I agree with Tay that the grille should be black instead. White seems too contrasting to the other colours IMHO.
But if YOU like the white, then stay with it of course, because that's what really matters!
I see your point but sorry, I like white personally and it goes with the graphic on the left side of the case and my drives. Its about pleasing me, not you
Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 10:50 am
by andyb
Kick Ass...........
You need more than just a pat on the back, Antec take note, Black/Blue Cases, with improved intake ventilation.
That gives me an idea or 2 to do to my Sonata (cutting, not the paintjob).
Andy
Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 9:57 pm
by toNka
Awsome!
Just a few points/opinions...
1) I'd paint your mesh intake grill black
2) I'd paint the optical drive's tray bezels black too (so each drive is black/blue)
3) Get some C-channel trim around that back exhaust fan cut out
4) Replace the Cooler Master fan with a Clear Blue Yate Loon
5) Give the system to me as a sign of appreciation for all my good advice
All in all, GREAT JOB!
