After some time looking at foam on the web, I'm coming to the conclusion that, in general, the foams McMaster sells are too thick (typcially 1") for most PC applications. Melamine is the exception here since it is plenty thin enough. I'm not sure the AcoustiPack is really all that much more advanced...

Ooh... the answer is obvious: Save the $ and put it towards broadband at home! In Vancouver, the phone company is offering $25/mo for a year of DSL for new users -- with 1st month free. That's Cdn $, BTW. Probably under ~US$200/year. There must be similar offerings where you are? No can do broadban...

Hmmmm. Thought I replied to this last night??? This is a great question and certainly worthy of discussion. * Should be (not sure) better for noise since the bottom of the case is further from you ear and it's not pointing towards you like the front bezel typically is. I think that depends on the su...

Why not try some judicious OC'ing first & see how far you can go? If you can hit 2.4G (not inconceivable with higher Vcore) then you'll get a good idea of the performance gain. Also, are P4-2.4C even available anymore? I know Intel stopped shipping all P4s slower than 2.8G about a month ago. Hmmm. ...

I ended up with a ASUS P4P800 Dx mobo a Zalman 7000A, and some DDR3200 RAM (don't ask, it's a long story) and I am trying to decide between: (A) Keeping my P4 1.8A 400MHz FSB - ~50W max and the accompanying 2100 RAM and not fully utilizing the speed available on this mobo in the name of quiet coolin...

Nice setup tuna. If you are open to tweaking suggestions here are a few ideas that you could toy with. Remove the orange rope altogether. Turn your cable ties either 90° or 180°. Run your bungee cord through the cable ties and under the drives. Tie a knot in the bungee cord between the HDD and the c...

Currently got a cheap 430W PSU powering my PC which is really noisy, so looking for a new quiet PSU. PC is made up of: Athlon XP3200 (not overclocked) Gigabyte GA7N400 Pro2 motherboard Asus 128MB Radeon 9600XT 1 GB PC3200 DDR 1 SATA 7200rpm disk 1 IDE 7200 rpm hard disk 2 IDE CD drives Tempted to g...

Aphonos – don’t think I didn’t try quiet components, but wherever you have mechanical particles, rotation etc. there IS some noise. But they might be quiet, but they are certainly silent. I’ve removed all movable components in my old computer but I could still hear humming of the electricity in my ...

bomba and Ralf raise good points. bomba, though I appreciate your caution, I'm starting to wonder if you had a childhood accident with a flaming power supply that has scarred you for life. :lol: I second Ralf's comment on flammability. Interesting with the above product that the flame rating does no...

Aside from discussing alternative products to the one's I originally listed (though ideas for cheaper and better substitutes are welcome) and lenny and Trip's private conversation about the ATC-600 :razz:...... Would my idea be a good substitute for AcoustiPack Deluxe? Off the top of my head, IMO Pr...

Edit: I think you're looking at a different item. I'm looking at 9709T25. Yup, you're right. Different items. I was looking at the last set of products on the page - Quiet Metal Vibration Damping Sheets: Alloy 5052 Aluminum 0.065" DLF 0.11 :oops: Though the polymeric mastic is almost 2x as heavy as...

Am I the only one with an IQ of 145 or is my idea really so insane! :oops: :wink: Leanux, Welcome to SPCR! Maybe you could put your 145 IQ to work using the forum search feature. :wink: Searching on both extension and room, I got a hanful of threads where this idea has already been kicked around. I...

what do you think of the 3 ply aluminum I linked to above? it's pretty thin, maybe a little too thin... Hmm, wish I had noticed it earlier. More than twice the DLF of polymeric mastic, not much more expensive, lighter. Just have to watch out for shorts, but since there's likely to be a layer of foa...

Edit : clarification - was just wondering about the feasibility of having all products of interest from McMcasters in one thread. If it doesn't already exist, why don't you start a new thread for it. I know there are bits and pieces of posts if you search on mcmaster that could be indexed into one ...

Let me start by saying lots of other materials could be used and lots of other high-end/high-cost materials could be used. My purpose was to try to duplicate (or at least approximate) the AcoustiPack Deluxe--that is becoming a rather popular choice after Ralf's review--but at a lower price point. Yo...

Hi, Aphonos. It's really nice to have everything (with links, no less) in one page. One thing you might want to watch out for - the polymeric mastic comes in a big sheet, so shipping is going to be expensive (for bulk as well as for weight). Weight more than bulk IMO, since the mastic comes in a ro...

dukla2000 wrote:Another variation on the theme is at SilentHardware/Dirkvader forums. (The second post is an English version of the first one.)

The link Joe DeFuria put in the first post goes to sven's SPCR post linking to his very same Dirkvader post. So, I guess your link is just one fewer steps. FWIW.

Would the following three products from McMaster.com produce something of a DIY AcoustiPack Deluxe kit (for less money)? ( SPCR AcoustiPack review , SPCR Pre-cut kit review ) Granted, you'd have to do the trimming and fitting yourself, but unless you get a pre-cut kit, you have to do that anyway. Ad...

lack of supplied power cable and mounting bolts. I did email both Nexustec about this, they told me that they don't supply bolts or a cable because it's a replcement PSU, so the customer should have these items. They also said they had included it in the That's really poor! :evil: Good thing Intel ...

ruprag wrote:nope, it started with a link to "Recommended Power Supply Units"

IDNRC=I did not recall correctly.

ruprag wrote:How about pointing them to the "how much will a 300w run" sthread ??

IIRC, I believe that's where the thread at Anandtech got started--with a link to that SPCR thread.

Perhaps OT. I'm curious why you named your systems Alpha, Beta and Sigma? Why those Greek letters? Why not Upsilon (oopsilon) or Rho or Iota or Lambda or Mu or Nu or Psi (psee) or Pi (pronounced pee in Greek rather than pie as it is often pronounced in mathematics and the fraternity and sorority sys...

Frankly, I don't really know how to max out my machine. I've tried playing with the CD tray. ROFL. Somehow I imagine you watching to see if the the max draw on the KillOWatt goes up or down while the CD drawer goes in an out. :lol: Maybe if you push the eject button really fast it will draw more po...

The temperature was around freezing, and the foam pillow turned rock hard. Yup, like I said, heat reactive/sensitive. If he left his head on it for a while though, his body heat would have softened the foam a bit and returned it to a pillow-like state, at least until he rolled over to a new spot on...

Hmmmm. Let us know if you get anywhere with a use for this. I have one of these pillows and my first thought is that since this foam is heat-reactive (it softens based on body heat) that if if were used to support a HDD that it might just swallow the drive as the temps went up. Though being so soft,...

I would suggest cutting a hole in the top rather than in the bottom. In this case there's no need for an exaust fan - hot air will exit by itself. A top blow-hole provides a nearly-direct path for sound to leave the case and enter the user's listening environment and, as such, is not a recommended ...

Mike, you're always so much more diplomatic than I. Thanks for saying what I was trying (err...needed) to say in a much nicer way. 1)case- i dont know, some heavy steele one with built in noise dampening... 2) zalman 7000a-ALcu/CU 3)zalman 400 watt psu, SILENX 14dba psu, FANLESS PSU(forget model etc...

well since cost isn't important get a lian li pc-65B a enermax 431 psu and a zalman 7000a-alcu heatsink/fan that will give u a nice looking, quiet setup :) lian li are expensive, but nicest case i have used...EVER boardsportsrule, Welcome to SPCR! My apologies if this seems curt, but I would recomm...

cbloss wrote:I was reading that removing the fiberglass would make it too flimsy and reduce the sound absorption.

IMO, neither is true.

Actually, Radeonman was the first one to raise the insruance matter: That's why I have fire insurance ;) :oops: My mistake. Sorry. :) aphonos, please accept my apologies, I certainly have no intent to offend. :lol: No offence taken. You're right. Family member's security certainly should come befor...