Silence ANY Gaming PC for $25 and Some Wood

[JordB]

 

Could we quiet down a noisy gaming PC with just a single trip to the home improvement store? We weren’t sure, but we had to find out!

 

Buy a 4x8' sheet of Plywood: https://lmg.gg/5qlpU

Check out SoundStop Sound Deadening Board: https://lmg.gg/p1NU3

Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

 

Want to make your own?

Baffle Box Construction Drawings.pdf

[Slipping Jimmy]

Where's the before tests?

I'm sure this made it worser.

[AmanAtk]

I have an even cheaper solution
i am from India and it cost me around $10-$12 because its imported from out of India
try using these  (use the link ) incited of fan screw
i dont know what are they called but these work like so good
i am using it and it reduces like 80% to 90%  noise
it comes in various different shape and size

https://www.amazon.in/Cosmos-Pieces-Rubber-Mounting-Screws/dp/B00H9905KA

[PatyYe]

Would be very nice to have the schemetic drawings in metric aswell  

[RejZoR]

You know what makes me angry? We have like 5000 case designs of all sorts with 18 direct exhaust/intake fan mounting points. And I'm aware of just 1 case that has very aggressive silencing properties that I could find and actually own, Silverstone Kublai KL-07: https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/KL07/

 

It's still not perfect because the rear exhaust fan goes directly out, but in a nutshell, it's designed to direct all the fan noise away from the user. Intake has sound dampening foam and intakes directed away from user with fans entirely covered. Same with top exhaust that has same principle of directional holes and sound dampening foam. Why the hell no case maker other than Silverstone with this single case focus on out of the box noise reduction? Instead of making oversized cases that are 3/4 of empty in the end, how about making the same size, but with these chambers built in and inside is a normal midi tower sized space to have a PC without having to become carpenter? Everyone makes 5000 RGB variants, but no one goes all out on silence. Except this one case.

[Distinctly Average]

Just want to suggest anyone watching this also watch some of the Adam Savage videos on nail gun safety. That includes Linus and the LTT team. A couple of moments there were a bit concerning with finger and colleague placement/

 

 

[callmeari]

21 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

You know what makes me angry? We have like 5000 case designs of all sorts with 18 direct exhaust/intake fan mounting points. And I'm aware of just 1 case that has very aggressive silencing properties that I could find and actually own, Silverstone Kublai KL-07: https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/KL07/

 

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There are a few on the market, I haven't left my Fractal Designs Define R4 because it's hard to get a hold of their R6 Blackout in Canada.

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-r6/blackout/

 

By any means it's not perfect or the best, as the thermals in my R4 is painful even with a Noctua, but it's still much much better than an average case or a glass side panels.

[iLikeBananas]

Love this video, and would love a part 2 with a fancier box. 

 

19 minutes ago, callmeari said:

There are a few on the market, I haven't left my Fractal Designs Define R4 because it's hard to get a hold of their R6 Blackout in Canada.

I personally use a Fractal Define R5 and haven't upgraded it either.

[SaperPL]

Cool video. I would love to see a design of the shelf in front of TV doing something like this for example with frosted glass doors that are covered with some translucent flexible 3D printed sound redirecting/absorbing layer, so it still has openings from the side, but actually is sound dampening like this thing here.

 

As for smaller implementation - I was wondering if it would be possible to compete against normal air coolers with something using those ungodly loud server fans but doing this enclosed like you guys did here, just inside of the case. And make the outside look like some custom stuff, for example spongebob tower cooler

 

Finally as an alternative take - what happened to the case with huge low RPM fans that push a lot of air? Maybe making something that looks like a subwoofer but has a huge low RPM fans front and back and just guiding the airflow to CPU and GPU would be better approach than enclosing whole tower case with such box?

[Bitter]

At that point why not just make the PC case out of plywood with baffling? You can get board standoffs that thread into wood and longer screws to mount fans and PSU to the wood.

[CyanideDolly]

8 hours ago, PatyYe said:

Would be very nice to have the schemetic drawings in metric aswell  

 

[Cookie1990]

What is the name of the Shell or the principle that applys here? 

I wanna read up on it.

[RejZoR]

17 hours ago, callmeari said:

There are a few on the market, I haven't left my Fractal Designs Define R4 because it's hard to get a hold of their R6 Blackout in Canada.

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-r6/blackout/

 

By any means it's not perfect or the best, as the thermals in my R4 is painful even with a Noctua, but it's still much much better than an average case or a glass side panels.

This is similar, yes. Though top grille isn't barrier, just redirection away.

[Enduriel]

I think I got shadowbanned on YT for posting this, and it's also imo a great example of how I'm concerned about the new shadowban policy. But I posted this

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This is genuinely pretty cool, but the fact you guys didnt share CPU temps or make a proper before/after for temps seems really strange. Obviously theres going to be some performance degradation/heat retention, and if im going to do this myself I'd like to know about how much of a penalty I can expect.

 

And like if there genuinely isn't any performance degredation, then you guys should he showing the stats to back that up. I know this is a janky LTT video that you guys probably didn't wanna spend a lot of time on, but frankly, that shows, and i think it could've been a much better video if you had put that time into it.

Looking back now at the graph at 9:56, I think that's supposed to be a before/after, except it's communicated terribly, and you still don't do any CPU comparison for some reason? I just read that as a single long test after the case had been surrounded, because it's not really communicated that there's a before/after here and I wasn't 100% focused on every part of the graph, there's no arrow or other marker.

 

I can't find any other comments complaining about the lack of proper thermal before/after comparisons. I'm not sure if I'm crazy or if LMG are just banning everyone bringing this up, which like, seems really sad honestly, and I think part of the problem with the new policy is that you can't tell when it's happened or dispute anything.

[Shriker]

My first media server was in another room. The second, my current media server I built 9 years ago into the bottom shelve of an IKEA cupboard. It draws in the air from the lower right back, filters it, goes through the HDD section up into the main section and gets pushed out the upper left back. The exhaust and the intake are separated by foam so they don't mix. It runs very quiet and cool, but it's optimized for low power consumption, so thermals weren't that of an issue.

I use it as kind of a NAS, downloader and media center.

 

Motherboard: ASRock Z87M Pro4

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130T

GPU for additional connectivity: NVIDIA GeForce GT730 (Yes, the one you trashed)

Memory: 32 GB

PSU: Corsair CX430M

OS: Simple Windows 10

Storage:

• Controller: LSI SAS9201-16E Controller Card SAS HBA 6GB/s PCI-E
• System: Samsung SSD 840: 250GB
• Download Cache: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB
• HDD: 2x46TB mirrored (picture outdated)
• Backup: Offsite NAS: 2x18TB

PS: My first setup had a RAID 5 and it was so buggy, I had to rebuild every time I restarted. Therefor I just plain run the drives and sync them daily with GoodSync. I know it's not optimal, but it's low tech and it works. Additionally not all HDD have to run all the time. The mirrors do not run 23.5h a day and the others run only when accessed.

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

This was also shown in the GN Nvidia tour:

 

[ET_Explorer]

I think would have gotten superior results with even lower sound noise if you built it with cork.

 

Cork boards are light-weight, it's non-flammable, very insulated, and makes computers run silently. Just think how much work you will have lugging around that heavy silent box around.

[Required]

22 hours ago, RejZoR said:

I'm aware of just 1 case that has very aggressive silencing properties that I could find and actually own, Silverstone Kublai

https://antec.com/product/case/p101-silent

[Slipping Jimmy]

10 hours ago, Enduriel said:

I think I got shadowbanned on YT for posting this, and it's also imo a great example of how I'm concerned about the new shadowban policy. But I posted this

Looking back now at the graph at 9:56, I think that's supposed to be a before/after, except it's communicated terribly, and you still don't do any CPU comparison for some reason? I just read that as a single long test after the case had been surrounded, because it's not really communicated that there's a before/after here and I wasn't 100% focused on every part of the graph, there's no arrow or other marker.

 

I can't find any other comments complaining about the lack of proper thermal before/after comparisons. I'm not sure if I'm crazy or if LMG are just banning everyone bringing this up, which like, seems really sad honestly, and I think part of the problem with the new policy is that you can't tell when it's happened or dispute anything.

Linus does shadow people at times over stupid reason.

[AnonymousGuy]

So I've done this....the next iteration is you use a radiator and watercooling to cool the air and heat the water (which you cool elsewhere).   Then you can seal up the whole thing and reduce it down to a power and data cable exiting the box.

 

Moving your PC to another room is still quieter though.  That's basically end game but you need $$$$ to do it.

[JordB]

On 8/4/2024 at 7:17 AM, Enduriel said:

I think I got shadowbanned on YT for posting this, and it's also imo a great example of how I'm concerned about the new shadowban policy. But I posted this

Looking back now at the graph at 9:56, I think that's supposed to be a before/after, except it's communicated terribly, and you still don't do any CPU comparison for some reason? I just read that as a single long test after the case had been surrounded, because it's not really communicated that there's a before/after here and I wasn't 100% focused on every part of the graph, there's no arrow or other marker.

 

I can't find any other comments complaining about the lack of proper thermal before/after comparisons. I'm not sure if I'm crazy or if LMG are just banning everyone bringing this up, which like, seems really sad honestly, and I think part of the problem with the new policy is that you can't tell when it's happened or dispute anything.

Hey, Jordan here - I was the writer on this video. 

 

First things first, I've spoken to many people internally and we're all in agreement that the comment posted above is NOT worthy of being banned as it does not meet our criteria for being in 'bad faith'; to us, this reads as legitimate criticism, and we want to continue to have this kind of dialog with our audience. We've also confirmed that this comment was not shadowbanned on Youtube. 

 

As for your question, it's related to the video's angle and scope. We unfortunately must be very intentional with the scope of each project we take on, and that means that no video can be all things to all people. For this one, the premise was basically "Hey, I have a stupid idea to quiet down a PC for cheap, let's go try it out!" That said, we do have some extra information related to what you're looking for that was not included in the video:

• Looking at the logs, we gained about 4 degrees Celsius on CPU package over about 5 hours of logs, and the peak core temp hits 73. Obviously that's just with furmark 2 and hwinfo going, so it's not a major load on the CPU. 
• The GPU fans peaked at about 60%, so there's capacity there to deal with more load. 

Hope that helps! Thanks for your feedback!

 

[Slipping Jimmy]

On 8/6/2024 at 2:31 PM, JordB said:

Hey, Jordan here - I was the writer on this video. 

 

First things first, I've spoken to many people internally and we're all in agreement that the comment posted above is NOT worthy of being banned as it does not meet our criteria for being in 'bad faith'; to us, this reads as legitimate criticism, and we want to continue to have this kind of dialog with our audience. We've also confirmed that this comment was not shadowbanned on Youtube. 

 

As for your question, it's related to the video's angle and scope. We unfortunately must be very intentional with the scope of each project we take on, and that means that no video can be all things to all people. For this one, the premise was basically "Hey, I have a stupid idea to quiet down a PC for cheap, let's go try it out!" That said, we do have some extra information related to what you're looking for that was not included in the video:

• Looking at the logs, we gained about 4 degrees Celsius on CPU package over about 5 hours of logs, and the peak core temp hits 73. Obviously that's just with furmark 2 and hwinfo going, so it's not a major load on the CPU. 
• The GPU fans peaked at about 60%, so there's capacity there to deal with more load. 

Hope that helps! Thanks for your feedback!

 

And a extra couple minutes to the video would not have hurt it.