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Paxmate Substitute... Seat Foam
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Outcome? My monitor is louder than my computer 
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LOL. It looks like more than there is... Anyway, when you're SOOOOO close to silence, you'll do ANYTHING to make your computer quieter... This may also be a severe reaction to the Tornado I owned a year ago... When you're exposed to so much noise 24/7 for 5 months, it does terrible things to your mind. So don't buy a tornado unless you want to go crazy like me.
Haha, My CPU temps have went up ~1c while my case temps have gone down ~2c!
Haha, My CPU temps have went up ~1c while my case temps have gone down ~2c!
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With a minor editenvy said:lol copy pasted cyrix, busted!
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there's not enough room left in my case to do that
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there's not enough room left in my case to do that
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Same here. I could probably squeeze some in certain areas, but I'd bever be able to muffle everything.greenman100 said:
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I love my full-tower Cheiftec Matrixgreenman100 said:
I switched over from a mid-tower aluminum skyhawk and I LOVE all the space this case has.
Awsome job on the foam. I do have one question though, How does it not cause parts to heat up? You would think covering them in foam would cause them to get warmer (especially the HD). Since your temps stayed really good, I may just take your lead and silence my beast of a comp . Oh and yes, you can never do anything overkill, others just don't do things up to par with you.
. Oh and yes, you can never do anything overkill, others just don't do things up to par with you.
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I have a P2 HS sitting on my HDD so it won't overheat. It's also using the drive bays as a HS, so the foam shouldn't affect it too much. Also, I have like zero airflow through my case (before and now), so it's going to affect you ALOT more than me. My case temp is reported as 39c, but that's wrong since if I open the case up, hot air doesn't blast me. However, my room is like 85f so it's HOT in here. My CPU temps are @ 52.5c load so that's not so bad considering my fan is just barely spinning. If I turn the fan up, the temps quickly drop to ~ 38c.DeViL_909 said:Awsome job on the foam. I do have one question though, How does it not cause parts to heat up? You would think covering them in foam would cause them to get warmer (especially the HD). Since your temps stayed really good, I may just take your lead and silence my beast of a comp
::edit:: Also remember my system started out near silent anyway, so the foam only lowers noise levels a little. Read a review on paxmate and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Overkill? What's that?
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A lot fo that foam is flamible though, so watch yourself, i lines the bottom of my case (a higly unused area, which develups acousticle reaction) with some pink matress egg crate foam spray painted black. Looks real nice.
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Well besides the fact nothing should ever get hot enough to ignite the foam, I believe this was "Safety foam" that is fire retardent. If it's not, they do sell sell the safety foam.whoever said:
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I love my full-towerComo said:
I had 2 HDD's, 2 CD's, a Bay-res, Fan-controller, WC'ing, and a 2 bay LCD in my mid tower.... Yet there were only 4 5.25" bays (I cut the 3.5" bays out to make room for my rad). Yeah, I had a hard drive taped to the fan-controller, a hard drive sitting on top of the rad, and the LCD was taped to the window. The bay-res sat loose next to the window until I later removed it.BTW, I just bought the full-tower ~3 weeks ago
