BV> I went to Clark Rubber and had a poke around. They had some
 BV> corrugated foam rubber which is about 2.5" high and would have
 BV> been perfect except that the case wouldn't fit with it.

 BV> I asked him about getting some made with a 1" height and he in
 BV> turn asked the factory. Lo and behold, they did it for me. I've
 BV> just finished lining my case with it and it works a treat. The
 BV> only noise I can hear now (other than my tinitus) is the
 BV> horizontal output stage in my monitor.

  Rubbish... no one's ears can hear 50KHz (or whatever your obscenely
expensive monitor runs at... probably 250KHz!)

  I read that Clark Rubber has a new owner and is back in business.

 BV> I bought a sheet of the stuff for $45 which was sufficient to
 BV> do my mini-tower and Patricia's Full tower. I've got more than
 BV> enough left over to do the desk-top which will become the file
 BV> server. The trick is to line the entire case with it. That
 BV> means pulling off the front panel and lining it as well. The
 BV> only part of my case which isn't lined or covered is the small
 BV> part at the rear where the fan is, but you really can't hear it
 BV> when everything else is properly lined.

  What about ventilation? The fan has to suck the air from somewhere.
You're supposed to create a tunnel, where the air is drawn in over the
CPU and RAM, and exits through the fan.

... [later]

  I just had a look at mine, and bugger-all air is coming out of the
fan. It's either rooted, or clogged up with poop. The box doesn't seem
to have any inlet, either, except at the back alongside the fan! This
is bloody silly. The air will just go in, and straight out again! I
may as well disconnect the fan.

  Bugger you, Brenton. Now I'll have to look at it. I've been putting
up with this noisy bloody thing for 4 years, and now your unnatural
attitude of doing things right is forcing me to do something!

 BV> Well, you can hear it a little bit but it is much softer than
 BV> the rest of the background noise.

  ROFL! So move to a quieter suburb where you can hear the noise. I
just turn the radio up. Bloody perfectionist!

  BTW, I'd make sure that the drives are mostly exposed, and not
wrapped up in too much rubber. I was surprised how hot they run. The
only loss is through convection from the drive's case. If you wrap it
in rubber you will kill the convection totally, and the temperature
could rise an extra 30C.

... [later again  fx; grumble, grumble, bloody perfectionists]

  Well, I've just pulled my poor old computer apart and what I thought
was the noisy fan turns out to be the bloody Seagate hard drive, aided
and abetted by the Western Digital hard drive. I've got a good mind to
give the 40Mb Seagate the arse, and move the WD deeper into the case,
away from the front panel.

  The ventilation is not bad, but the fan isn't worth a shit. I need a
stronger blow job. The vent hole on the top at the back, is screened
by the PSU itself, so the air has to go around. There is another vent
at the bottom front near the speaker, and that would tend to draw cool
air over the RAM (if the fan was worth a shit), and up past the CPU.
But the fan is useless, and the tiny amount of hot air it blows is
coming from the PSU itself. There *must* be something wrong with it.

... [will this bloody noise never end...]

... fx: hunchback of Notre Dame impression - the BELLS! the BELLS!

  With the lid on, most of the noise is coming from the silly little
fan at the back! I'm tempted to bung in a proper blower-fan at the
bottom near the RAM, arsehole the Seagate, move the WD into the middle
somewhere on a skyhook and buy a gross of your 1" rubbers. I can't 
quite see how condoms work, though.

  There ought to be a law against you, Brenton. After 4 years of
successfully ignoring it, the noise is now driving me mad, and I
have these visions of cooling the RAM and running the CPU faster. 

... THE BELLS! THE BELLS!

Regards,
Bob (tm)
 
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