...Dynamat Extreme (DE) on one end and cutting up and gluing in pieces of vinyl flooring tile on the other end. ... Let me repeat: I have not tried lightweight foam. It may well work very well indeed and I'm missing out on a very good thing. Or not. I can personally attest that mass loading works a...

carpet pad
the lows near me has it for ~$0.65 per foot.
they will have several types. "Slab Rubber" type is the best.
Rebond Foam is very good too... for being cheap.

1.Depends on your case. I would say Acoustipac is great. But not cheap.
1a. I don’t know what that is, I normally get Styrofoam nuts or paper… they are all bad.
1b. Carpet pad foam.
2 over every surface that is not needed for ventilation.

2Fast4U2 wrote: A8N-E .........I like Lian Li's but am told of potential problems from their inverted mounting and heatpipes......

The A8N-E does not have a heat pipe chip set cooler. The Sytrin KuFormula VF1 might benefit from being upside down.

iphitus wrote: I find myself cleaning the dust catcher on the front of the case every month or two.

This sounds normal to me.

Open up ALL of the PCI slot backplanes. I think this is a guaranteed way to make your computer louder. With all due respect, this is flat out wrong. I've used open PCI slots to great effect in producing SILENT computers. ... It is not my goal to disagree with you for sake of general philosophy… T...

I understand that they have fixed many issues. I do not know if the silver P180s that are shipping have the same improvements as the P180B does. I think ease of moving is your own call. Do you move your tower / computer now? Is it difficult for you? I would say for sure a shuttle or other SFF / note...

Weight? The P150 is about 25 lbs. With PSU a small aluminum case is about 22 lbs. What makes my case heavy is the 6 lbs of foam.

Open up ALL of the PCI slot backplanes. I think this is a guaranteed way to make your computer louder. The x1600 has a little fan on it. and lets the HD noise go right out. http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/4551/mycaseduct21rb.gif The heat from your video card will travel up from convection. The fan...

you should talk to Hyphe about custom builds.
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... ustom+htpc
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This makes sense I guess. Do you have a case in hand? The document I see looks like the fire wire is not removed…
But no mention of the card reader

Greetings,

CPU: AMD 64 X2 3800+ or 4200+ (Socket 939)
-cooler: Scythe Ninja (passive, but close to case fans)

You need a back up fan on the heat sink. Or maybe just a duct.
I do not know the AM2 products are ready for intelligent critique at this point

One question is why make the ATX cable detachable? There's no situation where this cable isn't needed. If you have a set up that you might want to remove the PSU and not disconnect the MB cable from the board. Perhaps: The MB cable is tucked away /bundled with the other cables. Customizing the cabl...

Impressive. I like the PSU movement very much. I still think paper ducts inside a PC are some kind of accident waiting to happen.

You could try an after market heat pipe chipset cooler.

To use mine with the abit hsf back-piece I had to custom the upper screw that came with the board so that they did not push on the case. the lower screw fit in to a hole in the case.

If you are going from aluminum to acrylic I don’t think your going to find a negative impact. Typically acrylic cases are thick. But you lose the benefit of using a rubber or foam dampener. Be aware most inverters for cold cathodes make a humming noise. You might have a difficult time finding a ca...

what case do you have?
If you have an AT PSU the power switch might be live.
If you have a front fan, the bezel acts as a sound / dust baffle.
Other than sound…dust.

Clearly Devon Cooke favours the Anti-Vibration Fan Mounts over the Gaskets. That's why I was wondering if there's any way to combine the best of both worlds? So I'm not quite sure what to make out of this... shrouding capabilities of the Gaskets or the lower buzz the Mounts bring? Install the soft ...

Welcome to SPCR

I don’t think anyone knows how the AM2 Motherboard options are going to contend. I don’t think you are going to find a case that is both light and quite, unless it is just “smallerâ€

bad news: hdd's sit at 33 and 38.. O_O are these temps safe??? i think i might just turn my front fans back to 7v.. it only got rid of some noise.. wasnt a lot though. What did you change? Are you talking about the front fans? Just look at your case, they don’t have a great airflow path. Did you ...

the t balancer is highly programmable. It can do what you ask. First Are you have temp issues? Or looking for silent operation? "2 120mm Nexus fans on on the scythe" WOW unless you are OCing I dont think this is needed. one fan should be ok. "bottom two 5 1/4" drive bay directly to the scythe ninja ...

you could try posting on the Ubuntu forums. My fan speeds controlled by APCI worked with out me doing anything, well after I upgraded to the kernel for 586i. good luck.

Setup lm-sensors
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=42737

If you don’t have some massive software raid going on then you would be well severed to set your hard drives to power down when not in use. Memory foam, like for bedding/pillows works well for dampening mechanical vibrations. You can get an industrial sound blankets (lead) that are highly effectiv...

drjunk wrote:Ive orderd an 80mm vantec stealth...

You are better off with cooler master or yate loons. maybe the new stealth fans are better. the ones I bought a year ago were not loud, but not silent. but they did not adjust at all with a PWM controller.

Mike_P wrote:

HiFi wrote:Hey in the picture, is that audio wire going to your soundcard for the front audio ports? i was wondering where to put that audio wire.

firewire going to Audigy2 ZS is my guess

I think HIFI is asking how to hide that wire.

Video Card What to replace the Silencer with? Cause the card works for me - I hate to think about replacing - espicially as it kills me that the AGP versions of available cards are pricier than PCIe versions of the same/or better things. So - any opinions? Take the fan/shroud off the AS and replace...

so i have 2 120mm vantec stealth one in front by the hard drives and one in the top blowhole... My vantec stealth fans 120 mm are not quite at all. a Yate Loon is a good option. the best thing to do is test. with 3 hard drives I dont know if you will notice the change. my HD fan in the Sonota did n...

What case do you even have with 11 hard drives in? How are you cooling all your drives? Two obvious solutions. If your drives are not in some array, have the ones you don’t use often power down very quickly after use. Second, get a new case. You should really consider why 11 drives on all the time...