I've been thinking about what the best way to improve the cooling in my sonata would be. One thing I have consisdered doing is raising the whole case up about .5" and putting a 120mm intake fan (or two) in the bottom of the case. http://www.vulc4n.com/images/sonata.jpg I will definatly be opening u...

Sonata Case Mods -- 5/2/05 That's a very nice job, and very good use of the noodle in all the improvements/mods that you've made. You seem to have a pretty good grasp of the various cooling/quieting concepts, and if this were a term paper or some such, I'd give you an "A" to "A+". :) Thank you. It'...

Ehh sorry, aint sacrificing power for noise, im a gamer, need all the CPU cycles that my machine can muster. Same here...I'm a gamer, but I want the case to be near silent the rest of the time when I'm not gaming. That's why I chose the Sonata. It has taken a little work, but I'm pretty pleased wit...

Sonata Case Mods -- 5/2/05 I set out to improve the airflow within the Sonata case. My mods have all been inspired (and redirected) by you fine people at Silent PC Review. :) I installed all new components into my system. It has a new, Venice-core Athlon64 3200+ processor on an MSI NEO4 Platinum mot...

Ah I see, hmmm.. that would work though I went and picked up some thin foam weather stripping at Lowes and I think it will do the trick to seal the drive bay area. I'll work on it tonight and post my results later. That is what I did. I have some 3/8" wide and 3/16" thick weather-stripping that I h...

The good thing about a hole in the bottom is that nobody will ever see the bottom and the fan shell on the inside with a nice filter on it looks great. I'll post a picture later.

I read about your case mod last week. I'm more than impressed.

I am installing my new system into a Sonata case TODAY! I plan to show pictures in a few days, but I'll let you in on what I've done so far. I am going to cover up the Antec holes so I calculated the area of the holes. Ther are 91 holes per side and they are 3/16" in diameter. Total area is 2.5 squa...

I'm looking for material to make an inlet filter (wire or plastic mesh) on a bay cover to cut dust ingestion and improve the esthetics. I'll open the Sonata door for this inlet path when the computer is under load. Let me know whay you come up with as I'm contemplating a duct from the lowest 5-1/4"...

I've seen this mod done on the sonata. Check the Sonata Mod thread as I think there is a link on page 2 or 3 that is a well documented mod that includes the same PSU move.

I am about to mod my Sonata case. Question: Where'd you get that great black foam?

Thanks for the warm welcome JanW. :D One particular problem of the 'Antec' holes in a stock case is that they provide most of the case ventilation, so there is not much cool airflow from the front and over the HDD cage. In my case the 'Antec' holes are used to provide cool air to the PSU only. I hav...

inti, Thanks for the update (and inspiration). I'll be modding the hard drive area as it can easily made to work better. The holes at the top need to be covered (like the new Sonata II case), but an alternate air intake would need to be devised. I like the duct on the new Sonata II case, but it seem...

I'm newly registered, but have been lurking for months. Great website! As you can see the metal panel has 4 horizontal slots, two vertical slots and a big open space at the bottom of the cage, below the lowest hard drive. I have taped up the vertical slots and the big open space. The horizontal slot...