[mythtv-users] Fanless, not only quiet

[John Andrunas]

 I replaced the hard drive in my frontend with one of these

http://www.logicsupply.com/products/fdm4000i2g

expensive, but worth it.  I still have a fan on the processor but honestly I
can't hear it at all.  To me the hard drives were the noisiest thing.

On 10/5/07, Raphael <rpooser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> John Drescher wrote:
> >> This was built by a friend of mine
> >>
> >> http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_silent.php
> >>
> > I have made similar systems at work with antec cases with 120mm
> > exhaust fans and no other modifications. It may be my 35 year old ears
> > but I find myself frequently looking for the power light or seeing of
> > the power supply fan is spinning to tell if the machines are on being
> > that they are inaudible to me and they are not directly hooked to a
> > display.
> >
> > As for this site. That is good advice about the motherboard fan
> > (replacing it with a large heatsink) although unless you are
> > overclocking 99% of the time you can just unplug it and you will be
> > fine. I know this because at work (over the last few years) dozens of
> > these little fans have failed without me knowing and systems have not
> > had any problems at all.
> >
> > John
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> For me, the hard drives were the noisiest things inside my backend.
> Rubber grommets never helped me - they damp all high frequency noise,
> but what your left with is a muffled low frequency transferred through
> to the chassis. My solution was to make custom suspension mounts so that
> the HDs are floating (inspired by SPCR). It's so nice to be in peace
> without any noise at all from the HDs.
>
> As far as removing fans from the northbridges of motherboards, I've
> found that on VIA boards this is in general perfectly ok. Recent Nvidia
> chipsets seem to run hotter, so I'm not so sure about them. ATI and Uli
> chipsets often come without fans anyway. My backend has been running
> with no chipset fan for two years now. I ran a remote frontend also with
> the chipset fan removed. As long as you don't overclock it's ok.
>
> My frontend/backend actually has four fans in it, and it's still totally
> silent from 4 feet away, definitely silent from the couch, even when the
> house is totally silent. If you _have_ to have a fan, like I do, it's
> better to have more quiet ones than one loud one. Two half speed fans do
> not add up to the sound of one full speed one, but can move more air
> quietly. So all my fans run at 5 or 7 V. More fans do equal more chance
> for failure, but to me it's more than worth it. I hate being able to
> hear any noise at all from any of my computers.
>
> Raphael
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John
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