Vibration insulating mounts?

[T i m]

[T] Most folk would be very happy to just hear the clicking noises over the other fan noise / drive whine!

I'm likely to be replacing the HD with something faster and bigger soon

[T] Giving it mass will help keep the dynamics under control

With a

[T] New high spin drives to whine rather. I try to find slower ones for that very reason?

[T] True (from memory) .. I get my car stuff 'trade' though .. ;-)

[T] Should be managable with a std heatsink ..

I reckon

[T] I use a pair of steel punch type cutters to remove the webs between the arms on the vent pressed into the PSU fan hole. I then put the fan on the outside of the PSU case (less air disturbance away from the components).

[T] Howabout a slip over 3/4" chipboard cover with baffled vents front and back and a soft foam 'skirt' at the rear to take the cables?

I'm out in the country so I'm on dialup at 33k

[T] True, but when you are out of the country it won't matter how noisy it is will it?

All the best ..

T i m

[Soup]

Soup just had to say

Or investigate "servo tape/pads".

[T i m]

+AKM-1.99 for a 6" strip of the stuff? I know how strong 'strong' servo tape can be (held the steering servo in my Yokomo MR4TC) but the stuff I buy on a 25m roll from the double glazing supplies is as strong and less than a fiver for the whole 25m!

And you never know when you could do with another bit of good double sided tape do you .. ?

All the best ..

T i m

[Doki]

I'm talking about a fairly old drive here, so it's pretty loud clicking. There's bugger all fan noise to speak of :).

The slow old ones click lots and still whine. I put a Seagate Barracuda in a machine the other day and it seemed quiet enough on the whining side of things, and the clicking was very quiet.

Angle grinders are far more fun. Sparks all over the place for a start :). Don't think I'll be hanging any fans out of the back of the machine as I plan to fit some kind of baffling to the back if quiet fans aren't quiet enough.

Sounds like a plan actually. Would be reasonably heavy and should provide decent sound insulation. Probably bung in a low speed 80mm fan to make sure everything's cool.

In the country, on a farm with a DACS on the phoneline... Not out of the country :P.

[Stuart]

I messed around for ages trying to reduce computer noise, the perfect solution for me was to put the computer in the garage and run the cabling through the wall......absolute silence!........bit of a bugger when you want to use the cd rom though!

[Parish]

Now there's a damn good idea; the garage is right next to my office, and the heat the PC generates would help keep the daughter's guinea pigs warm :-)

Not a problem for me, all my optical drives are SCSI in an external case

- and I don't have a floppy drive.

Hmmm, I may just give this some thought.

Regards,

Parish

[PoP]

Why not use a CD drive on USB?

PoP

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