Tsunami TT WIP

[isendir]

Hi everyone! This is my first attemp to silence a computer. This is my setup:

* AMD 3400+ 939 (It's a rare oem version)
* Foxconn OEM Board (which I'll replace as soon as possible)
* 1GB Geil RAM with heatsinks
* Seagate 200GB 7200.8 Sata
* Liteon Reader and DVD Writer
* Ati X1900XT with Accelero X2
* Tacens Valeo PSU (horrible noise, but no money atm for a seasonic)
* Crappy CPU cooler from gigabyte (needs to be replaced with a ninja+nexus)

The first thing I did was buying a fan controller. I bought an Akasa fan controller with led screen and all that stuff whic can control up to four fans. Event at the lower speed, the thermaltake fans were horrible.

As i couldn't buy a pair of nexus fans, i bought two 120mm papst and it was a lot quieter, but not much.

I proceeded to remove the fan grils and it was a little bit better. But the intake in the tsunami case is very restrictive, so i proceeded to open the intake vents with brute force.




This is what i did to reduce hdd vibration. I also made a kind of duct to cool the harddrive.



I opened the pci slot beneath the radeon so it works as an intake and the card gets some fresh air and eliminated the lateral panel hole:



Previous temperatures were 45º for the hdd and 55º for the gpu. I can't take CPU temperatures as the mobo sensor oscillates like crazy. With the home made modding temperatures decreased to 37º for the hdd and 47º for the X1900xt.

[lucke]

* Tacens Valeo PSU (horrible noise, but no money atm for a seasonic)

What do you mean by that? Isn't Valeo semi-passive and generally quite quiet when the fan kicks in?

[isendir]

Not mine. It's quite noisy when the fans kicks in, and it does almost all the time (even when idle).

[Sparkytfl]

Not sure how much it matters to you, but if you screw a piece of clear plastic to the inside of that side fan hole, it looks a lot better.

[isendir]

I'm no very concerned about looks and i didn't have anything around like that.