Building my second silent rig, first is a Nexus...
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:53 pm
This one starts with a Antec 2650 case. Not know for silence, I know. It is really an interim build to learn soe stuff. P4 2.4 Northwood, Intel PERL board for stability. Had a Nexus Cooler left over, so started with that, the stock case fan, and, oh yeah, THE ANTEC PHANTOM. I just had to try that puppy. Well, it works GREAT! I have not been able to make it even break a sweat. Ran Sanrda a bunch, installed Win server 2003, no problems. And the PHANTOM is SILENT, and solid. Great job Antec! WOWOW.
But, too loud, so I ordered Disktwin from Nexus, A 120 mm Nexus fan to replace stock fan, a Zalman cooler, wanted a 120 Zalman, but was sure it would not fit. So, I ordered a 92mm Nexus in case I want to replace the Zalman fan. Would love details on how to do this.
Also ordered accousticpak foam and a lower voltage cable for the Nexus Chip fan just to try it. I
I am maybe going to add a Disktwin to my Big Nexus Case just to check it out. I have a 7200.8 250 gig in the nexus, and a 160 Spinpoint in the new Antec. Both seem very quiet. I really like the grommets on the Antec case. I cannot wait to try the Disktwin to see if there is any difference.
More observations. the fan hole lets a bunch of noise out. I wil probably block that with foam. Once I silence this 2.4 to the way I like it, I would like to maybe get the Sonata2 or 3000B and build a more powerful machine, P$ 3.4 or maybe even AMD64 3800 or so.
I love silent computers. Still cannot figure how Dell makes them so quiet. I set up quite a few for clients and they reall are darn quiet. Not thrill in just getting one of those, though ))
Thanks for listening to the renat. I wanted to actually post on my favorite web site, SPCR!!!!!!!!
Dave
But, too loud, so I ordered Disktwin from Nexus, A 120 mm Nexus fan to replace stock fan, a Zalman cooler, wanted a 120 Zalman, but was sure it would not fit. So, I ordered a 92mm Nexus in case I want to replace the Zalman fan. Would love details on how to do this.
Also ordered accousticpak foam and a lower voltage cable for the Nexus Chip fan just to try it. I
I am maybe going to add a Disktwin to my Big Nexus Case just to check it out. I have a 7200.8 250 gig in the nexus, and a 160 Spinpoint in the new Antec. Both seem very quiet. I really like the grommets on the Antec case. I cannot wait to try the Disktwin to see if there is any difference.
More observations. the fan hole lets a bunch of noise out. I wil probably block that with foam. Once I silence this 2.4 to the way I like it, I would like to maybe get the Sonata2 or 3000B and build a more powerful machine, P$ 3.4 or maybe even AMD64 3800 or so.
I love silent computers. Still cannot figure how Dell makes them so quiet. I set up quite a few for clients and they reall are darn quiet. Not thrill in just getting one of those, though ))
Thanks for listening to the renat. I wanted to actually post on my favorite web site, SPCR!!!!!!!!
Dave