I'd agree that it does dampen sound a lot because it adds a lot of weight to the normally-thin panels--but I think that if I tried to do this again I would just go buy adhesive-backed rubber sheet and use that instead. 100X cleaner and no smell at all to ever worry about. You might even be able to f...

I built a case once, trying to use the spray-on sound deadener stuff for cars. It is some kind of tar with fibers added to help it "cling" better. The stuff smelled badly like tar. I mean, it STANK like hot tar. People said it will smell for a day, or two, but after that it won't. Mine didn't. Two w...

You can get any little plastic tubing from the hardware or pet store (aquarium tubing) and slice it once lengthwise with a knife. This is cheaper and also keeps the fan from touching (and rattling) on the metal case.
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Electrostatic-only air filters seem to be a great idea--there's no filter to clog and impede airflow, so they can be silent (by not requiring much air pressure) yet they can capture ALL non-gasses that pass through them. All of that is true in theory, but there are practical problems involved with u...

You can get silent room air filters for cheap.. here's one for $40 which has an AC-powered 41 cm fan. http://www.heartlandamerica.com/browse/item.asp?PIN=93701&SC=WIS20001& It would be as ugly as hell, but would it be a stretch to make a case mod which replaced a case side panel with such a filter ...

ces wrote: ... You didn't answer the store part of the question. Is it that you just do this on the side as opposed to through a store?

Ahh, I thought you wanted to know where to buy the sorbothane.

No, I don't do this professionally--just for relatives and friends.
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"Use sorbothane" How do you even know what that is or if they are using it| I see you are from Illinois. Where is your store located? Sorbothane is priced higher than other kinds of rubber, I'd think if they were using it the case manufacturer wouldn't hesitate to say. The website shows they make i...

Hey guys, I'm looking for recommendations for my upcoming system - and although I'm sure this topic is worn out by now, I'd rather hear some simplified facts rather than reading through a couple hundred posts about cases like the Antec p1** or Silverstone something or other. ..... My experience/opi...

I'm one person who thinks that the P180 is not all that great; it is nicely built but not worth the price difference, IMO. I think the main thing that makes my current setup "quiet" is that the fans are slowed down by a fan controller panel. I have good heatsinks and good fans (though I don't think ...

Wallblock adaptors usually have little to no regulation, so the fans might sound noisier hooked up to one of them than they would on a real PSU. Why not just use a cheap generic PSU with the proper wires shorted over?
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What I would do is try one tube inside another, with the inner-tube wrapped with some cotton fabric. And the inside tube would have small holes drilled along its length. So the alcohol/water mix would be able to wick to the hot end through the cotton fabric, and then vaporize off through the open ce...

The giant heatsinks are not that hard to find. The heat pipes would be the adventure here. If you can get the sink blocks machined, then why not try to make the pipes yourself? All they are is copper tubing with a two-layer wick, and some water+alcohol inside: http://www.npowertek.com/what.html .......

...This is nuts......Why not just invent/buy a stand-alone air fiter machine? Place it in the room with your computer. Collect all the dust you want, but keep it away from your computer.. Yes, this is nuts, but enacting a "no-nuts on SPCR rule" would drastically cut into current membership. ....And...

The top fan is only held in with two screws in the rear corners, and it has hooks to hold the front two corners. The Nexus fans have the closed-in corner holes, so (to avoid modding the case) you will need to trim open two of the corners on one of your fans for this. ----- I put Nexus in mine, I jus...

No, but surely you must have come across unreliable CD writers and the unpleasant encounter of computers belonging to heavy smokers. I think filters might help here. -Well I am pretty certain that I have read that cigarette smoke is some of the finest, smallest dust particles there are. Only a HEPA...

I tried to do a DIY case and it essentially flopped (Brutal Tripod). Since it was primarily concerned with noise and dust-control, I am posting the page here, which also showcases my "next great idea" (Dirtcan). http://www.norcom2000.com/users/dcimper/assorted/inanities/pc_case/diy_bomb.html -There'...

Taking this a step further, maybe computers could be tweaked to absorb more dust?... -I had this idea for my DIY, but that effort bombed out near the finish line. Flat-element-type filters are very compact but have some serious drawbacks; I did a cyclone-style filter--but it measured about 7 inches...

Well first of all, most people who buy aftermarket fans in retail stores now tend to buy the UV-neon stuff. I went into an area chain looking for a branded fan that was using the Yate Loon frame and was said around here to be extremely quiet--but they did not stock any plain black 120mm fans at all....

I got the Nexus fans in today, and the P180 is even quieter with them in than the stock tri-cools. ------ And my wiring is still a mess too. I tried to see what could be helped, but found nothing. I don't think it can be cleaned up, with the lengths of what I have and all, the dual-ended power cable...

I just got a Coolmax CF480W and a P180 case. I too expect to run a lower fan. I am still running the stock fans at the moment; triple Nexus are currently in-transit. And yes 480 W was far more than I needed, this was just to provide a large margin of safety. ---- I get some buzzing from the case wit...

I have a MSI K8T Neo2 mobo with a Athlon-64 3000/939 (Winchester core, 1.8Ghz), and with the Scythe Ninja running passive in a P180 case with both upper fans on their low setting, the usual temp is around 35C. ....About what it was with the stock heatsink and fan. The Ninja is quite less noisy howev...

I'm pretty sure that the lower chamber is supposed to draw air front-to-back. Whatever way it has to, taping vents or whatever. Something about that air-filter-thing on the front....

My problem with the lower drive area is the cables want to stick straight out of the plugs. I was using SATA drives with 4-pin power. It appears that your SATA cables are pre-bent, did you hit them with a heat gun or something? As stiff as they are, I didn't know how tight they could be bent without...

Mine bulges. Sometimes. I have mine sitting on the edge of a desk that is about six inches from a wall. On the floor below the front edge of the desk is a AC/furnace vent. When the AC is running, the door bulges out perhaps 5mm. After the AC has not been running for a while, the door only bulges out...

...Fanless PSUs do poorly with NO airflow, but they don't need a lot. "Some" is enough, and "some" is what is in our tester.... -Perhaps it would be useful to contact all the "label manufacturers", point out the higher failure rate of fanless PSU's and ask for diagrams of what testing setups they u...

...This is incorrect, the SPCR test rig takes intake air through the PSU tester and exausts is through / across the PSU.... -It would seem to me that, when testing a fanless PSU in a standard ATX case (with the PSU high in the rear) you would need to use front-intake fans (or the load tester) and t...

....Fanless power supplies are not meant to run with no air moving through them. They just allow you to move the fan elsewhere. In ATX cases you have a problem because you would want the case fan below the PSU to blow air in the same direction as the air moves through the PSU. If the PSU is an exha...

PSU - The Coolmax review on the main site made it kinda iffy, consider one of the 2005 Phantom models or a Silverstone/Etasis models as well. I don't think I understand the concept fo the way the SPCR is testing fanless PSU's, but that is a matter for another forum I guess. And anyway--I got the 48...

There are other various threads with fitting particular parts in the P180, so this is more of a general discussion of what hardware the case comes with as-is. Overall the case is very good, but a couple things did work poorly IMO: Firstly--I don't like the fans theselves. They only have two-wire tai...

Umm, yea, that's what I said, PWM. You hard a hearin or somethin? Anyhow--it all arrived today and I got it together. P180 case is generally nice, a couple things I'd change though, but as far as the fans go--I thought they had both 4-pin and mini-3-pin plugs on them, so you could hook the fans up e...