I replaced the hard drive in my frontend with one of these<br><br><a href="http://www.logicsupply.com/products/fdm4000i2g">http://www.logicsupply.com/products/fdm4000i2g</a><br><br>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.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Raphael</b> <<a href="mailto:rpooser@gmail.com">rpooser@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
John Drescher wrote:<br>>> This was built by a friend of mine<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_silent.php">http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_silent.php</a><br>>><br>> I have made similar systems at work with antec cases with 120mm
<br>> exhaust fans and no other modifications. It may be my 35 year old ears<br>> but I find myself frequently looking for the power light or seeing of<br>> the power supply fan is spinning to tell if the machines are on being
<br>> that they are inaudible to me and they are not directly hooked to a<br>> display.<br>><br>> As for this site. That is good advice about the motherboard fan<br>> (replacing it with a large heatsink) although unless you are
<br>> overclocking 99% of the time you can just unplug it and you will be<br>> fine. I know this because at work (over the last few years) dozens of<br>> these little fans have failed without me knowing and systems have not
<br>> had any problems at all.<br>><br>> John<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>
<br>> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>><br><br>For me, the hard drives were the noisiest things inside my backend.<br>
Rubber grommets never helped me - they damp all high frequency noise,<br>but what your left with is a muffled low frequency transferred through<br>to the chassis. My solution was to make custom suspension mounts so that<br>
the HDs are floating (inspired by SPCR). It's so nice to be in peace<br>without any noise at all from the HDs.<br><br>As far as removing fans from the northbridges of motherboards, I've<br>found that on VIA boards this is in general perfectly ok. Recent Nvidia
<br>chipsets seem to run hotter, so I'm not so sure about them. ATI and Uli<br>chipsets often come without fans anyway. My backend has been running<br>with no chipset fan for two years now. I ran a remote frontend also with
<br>the chipset fan removed. As long as you don't overclock it's ok.<br><br>My frontend/backend actually has four fans in it, and it's still totally<br>silent from 4 feet away, definitely silent from the couch, even when the
<br>house is totally silent. If you _have_ to have a fan, like I do, it's<br>better to have more quiet ones than one loud one. Two half speed fans do<br>not add up to the sound of one full speed one, but can move more air
<br>quietly. So all my fans run at 5 or 7 V. More fans do equal more chance<br>for failure, but to me it's more than worth it. I hate being able to<br>hear any noise at all from any of my computers.<br><br>Raphael<br>
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