you can significantly quiet down a drive by simply modifying the mounting. In the atc-620 cases I use I bend the hard drive mounting cage and then drill out the screw holes so I can put a rubber grommet in the hole and then use a longer screw and washer to tighten it
reduces HDD noise significantly by decoupling it from the case with rubber isolation points.. This is what they do inside high end DVD players to isolate noise from the reading mechanisim and the case. doing this to your fans will also make a huge difference (as well as adding a resistor to drop the voltage to the fan to around 9-10 volts and slow it down a bit. A friend of mine put rubber o-rings around every motherboard screw to isolate noise from the processor fan also. (I though it would be easier to isolate the fan..) there are alot of simple things you can do to significantly quiet a HTPC. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] newbie with a lot of questions OH....almost forgot... For those of you gagging for a quiet drive, I've got one to spare. Seagate Barracuda V 120gb SATA. This one has the SeaShield/SeaShell covering the Ics (thin layer of foam with a steel lid)...whisper quiet. Taking bids. Cheers, dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthieu Weber Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 1:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] newbie with a lot of questions On Thu 11.12.2003 at 11:56:48PM -0600, Tim Wilhoit wrote: > > I am getting ready to acquire the hardware I still need for my PVR > project. Can anyone recommend a good case to use? I already have an > extra Abit KT7 and a Athlon 1.4 I would like to use. I would like > something that will blend in with my other home theater gear. Anyone > have any unique solutions to keeping it quiet and cool? I know this > might be impossible with an AMD chipset but hey I can try :) It is possible with a good case. I have an Athlon XP 2200 on an EPOX 8k9a9i mobo (VIA chipset), and it remains at 40�C while running xmame or compressing DivX. The PSU's tempreature remains stable at 34�C at the same time. The display adapter is an old Matrox G400, which doesn't heat so much. I use a silent HDD (Seagate Barracuda), a silent CPU fan (GlacialTech Igloo SilentBReeze 462) and a (hopefully) good case (Antec Solution Series SLK1600 minitower). The case doesn't really blend with my HiFi, though ;) And there is still the noise of the air flowing... The one thing is the DVD drive: I have a Plextor PX-116A, and it's hard to set to a lower speed (i.e. sometimes it works, but I don't know why, and most of the time it seems to ignore the setting). If someone has a trick (or can explain my *why* it sometimes works...) Matthieu -- (~._.~) Matthieu Weber - Universit� de Jyv�skyl� (~._.~) ( ? ) email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( ? ) ()- -() public key id : 452AE0AD ()- -() (_)-(_) "Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht (Germain Muller)" (_)-(_) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
