Project STHU
Hello all. Like many of yours, my computer is loud as heck. It used to not bother me that much, but slowly it has become unbearable. I can't keep it on at night, so I decided to buy some quieter fans. Then, I decided, while I am at it I might as well just repaint it and make it look a bit nicer, and so started project STHU.
First I took all the side and front panels off my computers. Then realized I probably should have taken a picture first.. Well, here it is.
And the panels, that's the old colour, the new one is the spray paint cans you can see in the picture. The blue is getting a little old, and I have more experience in painting now and can make it look much better.
Here are the culprits... (notice the large amounts of elec. tape holding stuff together )
The 120mm is running on 7 volts and is still the loudest thing in the case by far. The 92 mm on the cpu is extremely loud as well, but I am going to keep it, just using a fan controller instead.
So I went and found all my painting stuff and bought some fiberglass and other stuff. Luckily I had painted my laptop over the christmas break so I had a lot of the stuff I needed..
Then I went over to bigfootcomputers.com (Good for all you people in Toronto, the $7 1 day shipping was cheaper than the gas it would take to drive there! They are fast, I ordered on the Long weekend, and they had shipped it by wednesday, and I got it on Thurs.) and ordered some new fans and some expandable sleeving to sleeve my PSU.. The split loom just doesn't compare to what I've seen on here when peopel sleeve their psus. The fans are SilenX and they run at 14dB!! You can get ones that run at 11dB too, which is half as loud as these and push only about 7-10 cfm less. I went for the 14db ones for 2 reasons, pushed a little more air, and saved me about $10
2 x 120mm and 1 92 mm. The 2 120s are going in the front and back. And the 92 is going in the front as well, to cool off the drives.
The sleeving..
more in next post..
Hello all. Like many of yours, my computer is loud as heck. It used to not bother me that much, but slowly it has become unbearable. I can't keep it on at night, so I decided to buy some quieter fans. Then, I decided, while I am at it I might as well just repaint it and make it look a bit nicer, and so started project STHU.
First I took all the side and front panels off my computers. Then realized I probably should have taken a picture first.. Well, here it is.
And the panels, that's the old colour, the new one is the spray paint cans you can see in the picture. The blue is getting a little old, and I have more experience in painting now and can make it look much better.
Here are the culprits... (notice the large amounts of elec. tape holding stuff together )
The 120mm is running on 7 volts and is still the loudest thing in the case by far. The 92 mm on the cpu is extremely loud as well, but I am going to keep it, just using a fan controller instead.
So I went and found all my painting stuff and bought some fiberglass and other stuff. Luckily I had painted my laptop over the christmas break so I had a lot of the stuff I needed..
Then I went over to bigfootcomputers.com (Good for all you people in Toronto, the $7 1 day shipping was cheaper than the gas it would take to drive there! They are fast, I ordered on the Long weekend, and they had shipped it by wednesday, and I got it on Thurs.) and ordered some new fans and some expandable sleeving to sleeve my PSU.. The split loom just doesn't compare to what I've seen on here when peopel sleeve their psus. The fans are SilenX and they run at 14dB!! You can get ones that run at 11dB too, which is half as loud as these and push only about 7-10 cfm less. I went for the 14db ones for 2 reasons, pushed a little more air, and saved me about $10
2 x 120mm and 1 92 mm. The 2 120s are going in the front and back. And the 92 is going in the front as well, to cool off the drives.
The sleeving..
more in next post..