Advice requested for seriously silencing a P182
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:50 pm
Here is my situation.
Patient: Antec 182, Gigabyte P35DS3R, Q6600 with Ninja rev b, Passive 8400GS.
HD1: WD250 Gb
HD2: Seagate 7200.10 320Gb
CPU Fan: Stock Scythe ( I read somewhere that it might be the slip stream , but mine does not look like that; speedfan reports is at 1000RPM )
Case: 1 Tricool in the back, 1 tricool in the lower chamber (both on low)
Symptoms: Patient is noisy. Seagate is humming like nuts. Tricools are noisy.
I am not generating much heat, CPU is not overclocked, GPU is passive and very low power.
To give you an idea where I'd like to go with this, I started unplugging everything, until I got to a level of noise that I deemed acceptable.
This happened with no fans, and only the WD drive.
In short, I would like to get it almost silent, as I mostly work at night and I just like it to be dead quiet.
I see two problems here:
1. Seagate hard disk.
There are two potential solutions:
a) scythe quiet drive; pro: quiet, inexpensive; cons: drive temperature could rise
b) get rid of it, get a 750gb WD GP; pros: quiet, more capacity; cons: expensive
2. Fans
Tricools must go. Again there are several solutions here:
a) Reserator 2. pros: quiet; cons:expensive
b) Slip streams or yate loons or noctuas (1xCPU, 1xCase, 1x HD): pros: inexpensive - cons: maybe not quiet enough for what I need
I thought b was the way to go (with some sort of controller) until I read about PWM noises on undervolted fans, so I am not sure anymore.
Questions:
1. If I go reserator, can I run with no case fans at all ? Or I should still have a fan to move some heat from RAM and GPU? Which fan would enough fo rthis task ? Slip stream 500 RPM?
2. Is it possible to attain a a VERY quiet box with air cooling ?
3. Any other thoughts, remarks, ideas ?
Patient: Antec 182, Gigabyte P35DS3R, Q6600 with Ninja rev b, Passive 8400GS.
HD1: WD250 Gb
HD2: Seagate 7200.10 320Gb
CPU Fan: Stock Scythe ( I read somewhere that it might be the slip stream , but mine does not look like that; speedfan reports is at 1000RPM )
Case: 1 Tricool in the back, 1 tricool in the lower chamber (both on low)
Symptoms: Patient is noisy. Seagate is humming like nuts. Tricools are noisy.
I am not generating much heat, CPU is not overclocked, GPU is passive and very low power.
To give you an idea where I'd like to go with this, I started unplugging everything, until I got to a level of noise that I deemed acceptable.
This happened with no fans, and only the WD drive.
In short, I would like to get it almost silent, as I mostly work at night and I just like it to be dead quiet.
I see two problems here:
1. Seagate hard disk.
There are two potential solutions:
a) scythe quiet drive; pro: quiet, inexpensive; cons: drive temperature could rise
b) get rid of it, get a 750gb WD GP; pros: quiet, more capacity; cons: expensive
2. Fans
Tricools must go. Again there are several solutions here:
a) Reserator 2. pros: quiet; cons:expensive
b) Slip streams or yate loons or noctuas (1xCPU, 1xCase, 1x HD): pros: inexpensive - cons: maybe not quiet enough for what I need
I thought b was the way to go (with some sort of controller) until I read about PWM noises on undervolted fans, so I am not sure anymore.
Questions:
1. If I go reserator, can I run with no case fans at all ? Or I should still have a fan to move some heat from RAM and GPU? Which fan would enough fo rthis task ? Slip stream 500 RPM?
2. Is it possible to attain a a VERY quiet box with air cooling ?
3. Any other thoughts, remarks, ideas ?