My Virtually Inaudible Lian Li AMD Rig

jwoolen01 · Post by **jwoolen01** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:29 pm

I've been running this system for some time now. I finally was able to take a some pictures of it. I'm glad I can finally share it with the place it was inspired by.

System Specifications:

Processor: AMD Athlon X2 4200+ Toledo @ 1.125v

Heatsink: Scythe SCNJ1000 + Nexus D12SL-12 (Q-fan)

Mainboard: Asus A8N5X BIOS v0902 + Zalman NB47J

Graphics Adapter: Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH

Hard Drive: Samsung T133 HD400LD 400GB (in Scythe Quiet Drive)

System Memory: Corsair VS512MBx2 CL 2.5

Power Supply: Seasonic S12 430 + Yate Loon D12SL-12 (5v)

Chassis: Lian-Li PC-V1000A

mcoleg · Post by **mcoleg** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:25 pm

that's pretty nice...

you could put the hd enclosure on some foam or a gel-pack though.
i found that this thing does the trick:

http://www.petrastechshop.com/pegviabbl.html

angelkiller · Post by **angelkiller** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:32 pm

Looks really quiet!

Good work! Hope you like it!

jwoolen01 · Post by **jwoolen01** » Tue May 01, 2007 2:06 am

The enclosure is on foam. I got four feet made of spire pads on the bottom.

I have to admit though, that gel stuff likes interesting. I might give that a shot.

mcoleg · Post by **mcoleg** » Tue May 01, 2007 2:58 am

oh, cool, couldn't see it from the picture there

stonyc · Post by **stonyc** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:26 am

Just had to say.. one of the best jobs of cable management that I've seen. Good work!

jhhoffma · Post by **jhhoffma** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:02 am

Bravo, very clean build.

That case look like it makes it pretty easy too. Wide open, reverse ATX (BTX?) layout and some cable tunnels. Nice.

sareiodata · Post by **sareiodata** » Tue May 01, 2007 11:43 am

Now this is superb...are your component's wireless , cause I can't see any wires...

). Great job...

jwoolen01 · Post by **jwoolen01** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:46 pm

Thanks to you all for you comments and input.

I got a lot of ideas from the members of this very forum.

mike961734 · Post by **mike961734** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:27 pm

nice job, how do you like the v1000? i have been looking at it and wondered how it was with dust build up.
Also, did you always have that quiet drive or did you use the stock hd mounts initially and switch later?

Axxel · Post by **Axxel** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:05 pm

damn where did u hide the cables?

nice work

jwoolen01 · Post by **jwoolen01** » Thu May 03, 2007 2:37 pm

mcoleg wrote:that's pretty nice...

you could put the hd enclosure on some foam or a gel-pack though.
i found that this thing does the trick:

http://www.petrastechshop.com/pegviabbl.html

I ordered some of the gel-stuff from petra's and it works a LOT better than the foam feet I had. Thanks for that idea!

mike961734 wrote:nice job, how do you like the v1000? i have been looking at it and wondered how it was with dust build up.
Also, did you always have that quiet drive or did you use the stock hd mounts initially and switch later?

I love the v1000. The design lends itself to cable management if you drill or cut some holes in the MB tray and route your cables behind it (that's where all my wires are). It gets about as dusty as any other case would. Periodic air dusting helps.

I never used the stock mounts. I got the Quiet Drive towards the beginning of the year. I've tried several mounting options. At first I had a NoVibes III in the 5.25" bays. Then I experimented with suspending a notebook drive in the cages after removing the slide rails. That worked pretty good, but the idle noise of the drive led me to purchase the Quiet Drive. I haven't looked back since. If you're an uber silencer, go for a notebook drive in the Quiet Drive. That combination was inaudible at about 1 ft away. In the end, I decided against it, because 5400rpm just wasn't fast enough for me. The Quiet Drive plus the Samsung HDD (and the gel stuff) is a good solution.

ryboto · Post by **ryboto** » Thu May 03, 2007 3:00 pm

I had a nearly identical system around the V1000. I went mad, and stopped using it. I've not got the same system I had in the nicely ventilated V1000 in a small, cramped Lian Li PC-A05B. The only real downside to this is that the power supply doesn't have a dedicated chamber. Either way, nice build. I put my quiet drive in the same place. If I had kept using the V1000 I think I might have started trying the reverse air flow for the motherboard chamber, cool air directly on the cpu HSF really helps the A05B.

kater · Post by **kater** » Fri May 04, 2007 12:22 am

Oh Great Master of the Ancient and Noble Art of Cablegami

I always liked the loook of LL cases - simple, elegant, cubic. On the other paw, I can't shake the feeling the internal structure is somehow complicated in terms of airflow. But hey, it seems to work fine so no big deal.

mcoleg · Post by **mcoleg** » Fri May 04, 2007 12:52 am

oh, cool. glad it works well for you.

interpellated · Post by **interpellated** » Fri May 04, 2007 10:55 am

Bravo! That's a beautiful clean build.

jaldridge6 · Post by **jaldridge6** » Fri May 11, 2007 8:13 pm

i had this case and it rattled like a bitch =( damn aluminum....

ryboto · Post by **ryboto** » Sun May 13, 2007 9:03 am

jaldridge6 wrote:i had this case and it rattled like a bitch =( damn aluminum....

yea, the panels don't latch very tightly over time, and you get a nice rattle if you don't have every vibrating component isolated. Specifically, the optical drives, at least in my case.

twoscoreandfour · Post by **twoscoreandfour** » Mon May 28, 2007 9:31 pm

Nice and neat --- I have the same thing and was almost giving up on it till I saw this.

A couple noob questions. How did you remove the walls and the hd rack? I think I have the original version of the board and they are rivetted on -- do I need to cut it with a demel or something?

Also, how did you get rid of the humming? Is this caused by optical drive vibration?

jwoolen01 · Post by **jwoolen01** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:37 pm

twoscoreandfour wrote:Nice and neat --- I have the same thing and was almost giving up on it till I saw this.

A couple noob questions. How did you remove the walls and the hd rack? I think I have the original version of the board and they are rivetted on -- do I need to cut it with a demel or something?

Also, how did you get rid of the humming? Is this caused by optical drive vibration?

I used a black & decker portable drill to drill the rivets out. I was able to eliminate the hum from the hard drives by using the gel stuff. I haven't been able to stop the vibration due to the dvd-r/w. It's not really a problem until the drive ramps up to a certain point. Dampening the panels may help. Sometimes I was able to reduce it by resetting the panels.