P182 with AcoustiPack (Updated Oct 04, 07)

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:14 pm

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My SPCR helper

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:00 am

Nice pics and clean work... Look forward to see the end result.

If your SPCR helper find the result quiet... and with those kind of ears... then I would call it extremely quiet

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:42 pm

This thing is a beast. It weighs over 60 lbs.

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:54 pm

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:06 pm

I've also been working on an Antec Fusion v2 HTPC.

djkest · Post by **djkest** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:23 am

Looks like your components could put out quite a bit of heat in that fully enclosed cabinet, I wonder if that is a concern? Also, your center channel on the floor probably gets a lot of reflection off the hardwood floor, does that sound ok?

Nice furniture though, you seem very fashion forward. Are you from europe by chance?

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:36 am

Thanks for the compliment! I live in the bay area of California in United States.

The components do put out quite a bit of heat. The cabinet was originally fully enclosed, but I removed the back panel due to the same concern you had. Luckily the components block the view to the back so it still looks like a fully enclosed cabinet.

I'm happy with the sound though I'm not very critical with my sound system. I don't notice any reflection. The audio system was originally 5.1 channels but I removed the rears speakers because I didn't want to have wires running to the other side of the room. I guess it's a 3.1 system now (left, right, center and sub)? My audiophile friends think it's sacrilege to neuter a surround sound system.

elec999 · Post by **elec999** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:55 am

Very nice and clean setup.
Thanks

vizzle · Post by **vizzle** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:14 am

Nice system you have here....what keyboard and rechargeable mouse do you have there in the shot of your workspace?

Thanks for sharing

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:28 am

It's the first revision of Logitech's diNovo Media Desktop Laser so it's a little different from the version they sell now. The one I have has a single mouse charger that is also the bluetooth receiver instead of mouse charger plus bluetooth dongle. I don't use the detached numpad much so I put that away.

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/keybo ... 4&cl=us,en

yamahaSHO · Post by **yamahaSHO** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:12 pm

Does the foam help any? My P180B is pretty quiet as is, but if it helps, I'd consider trying it out.

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:59 pm

The foam helps with any high pitched noise from the hard drive, video card, psu, etc. I'm more susceptible to high pitched noises so that foam has been great at eliminating those frequencies. I have 7 fans in my P182 because I'm overclocking the q6600 to 3.2GHz. The only thing I can hear is a nice low hum from the scythe 1200 rpm fans. I also wanted to add the acoustipack because I think it gives the case a nice clean look.

yamahaSHO · Post by **yamahaSHO** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:21 pm

I have a high pitched noise from my motherboard, however, I only hear the noise out of the fan openings. Do you think the sound deadener would do any good for me?

When I cover the fan openings with my hand, I don't hear the noise and I currently do not have any thing extra to deaden the sound.

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:53 pm

Unfortunately, I don't think the foam will help if the noise is primarily coming from your fan opening.

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:11 am

This is my old P4 2.4GHz that I rebuilt to be my bittorrent machine. I replaced the old Antec PSU with the Corsair 520HX, three 3.5 hard drives with one 2.5 hard drive in a Scythe SQD2.5-1000 2.5" Internal HDD Silencer mounted with Scythe Anti-Vibration HDD Stabilizer 2 for 3.5" HDD. I removed the video card because I only connect to it through Remote Desktop.

There are three fans in the computer, one nexus 80mm exhaust, one scythe 120mm CPU fan and one 120mm in the PSU. Although this is an aluminum case, this computer is extremely quiet.

thejamppa · Post by **thejamppa** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:38 am

Nice, what cooler is that, Thermalright XP/SI series top down?

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 1:12 am

The cooler is a Silverstone NT06 I had left over from another project.

gb115b · Post by **gb115b** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:57 am

what hard drive config have you got...

strange choice from a silence perspective? (possibly...i've never used those drives...but the consensus seems to be WDs of Samsungs...i personally go for samsungs...very cool running...)

gb115b · Post by **gb115b** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:58 am

also what res are you outputting to that HDTV?

looks sweet...

cienislaw · Post by **cienislaw** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 4:00 am

nice setup, but please send more pics of dog;-)

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:09 pm

The TV is a Samsung lnt5281f and outputting 1080p.

I originally had the 2 Seagate hard drives in my ReadyNAS NV+ but eventually replaced them with 4 Samsung HD501LJ hard drives. Since I wasn't using the Seagates for anything else, I thought I'll try out a RAID setup in the P182.

I'm using the Raptor for boot and the RAID 0 for pagefile and data storage.

Justchill · Post by **Justchill** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:47 pm

Hi yahui,

great setup, so gonna copy this!

Can you explain how you replaced the low chamber antec fan? In my case it's really stuck inside some plastic surrounding. The plastic surrounding is clipped onto the metal and I cant reach the screws.

How did you fix this?

grtz

Panter · Post by **Panter** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:08 pm

Justchill wrote:Can you explain how you replaced the low chamber antec fan? In my case it's really stuck inside some plastic surrounding. The plastic surrounding is clipped onto the metal and I cant reach the screws.

If you see carefully you see that there is small plastic "wings" you can push in with a small screwdriver and pull everything out..

Justchill · Post by **Justchill** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:33 pm

Are that 4 plastic thingies in every corner of the fan?

yahui168 · Post by **yahui168** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:55 pm

It took me a little while to figure how remove it. It seems to be firmly fixed in place, but the black plastic bracket in the lower chamber is designed to come out. I can't exactly remember how to remove it. I believe you can push in the two hooks closest to you and then slide the bracket out.