Make cheap case quiet-ish

[mochja]

I believe this should be in https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/14-case-modding-and-other-mods/, Sorry!

 

Hello Everyone!

 

I'd like to share my idea that I came up yesterday night. What is bothering me couple days after switching to Ryzen 3600, it the fan noise of cpu bursting to 100% back and forth, but also overall higher noise when case is closed. I don't think that the noise is coming from fan itself, but my idea is that the case is so thin that these fan vibrations are causing higher sound level. If I take panel of and knock it, you can hear really strong metal sound, at this point I was like: "Oh I've heard one of these before and I know how to fix it"... Long story short, I was in car-hifi shop to improve my car audio the other day and they had "test" door in there to test the difference between soundproofed or non-soundproofed doors. Idea here is pretty simple, get the vibration isolation material sheets and apply them to panels and top of the case.

 

Case: SilentiumPC Armis AR1 Pure Black

Vibration Isolation Material: Comfort mat Dark D2, (extra: Comfort Mat Integra)

 

Material Costs: ~6 EUR

 

You can easily cut the isolation sheets with scissors, I needed in total two sheets (500 x 350 mm) and half a sheet of Integra, I did not put this one on back side panel as there is already not enough space for cable management. I went extra with Integra one, but I truly believe you can get without it, it's meant for sound isolation instead of vibration isolation, it's thicker and foamy.

 

 

I also put stripe to the top, I am thinking if Integra would survive the heat on top, so I did not put it there (yet!).

 

 

Results:

 

Top - Before

 

 

Top - After

 

 

Side - Before

 

Side - After

 

 

I am happy with the results, I can still hear the case bursting, but sound is lower and deeper, it's not irritating me that much as before.

[Jurrunio]

does thermals get worse?

[Parideboy]

Nice!!! I've been looking for something like this since I had my rubbish Cooler Master Elite 335. I'm no audio expert, so I just kept it as an idea.

In my case, I would have gone with the foam stuff, had some beQuiet fans that could reach 40dba, so yeah annoying

[mochja]

6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

does thermals get worse?

I do not see difference in thermals. Idle low 40, Load high 70.