[mythtv-users] modded cases
Pete Hartman
mythtv at elmegil.net
Sun Jun 8 23:46:34 EDT 2003
At 09:33 PM 6/8/03 -0400, Matt wrote:
>Has anyone bought the "modded" version of the ATX Black Low-Profile
>Desktop Case from
>http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Cases/ci6011.asp
>??
>
>The modded version is ~$30 more (sells for $99) and they claims to be more
>"soundproof"
Soundproof is probably an overstatement, but "more" soundproof seems
reasonable. I got the modded version and I'm pretty happy with it. I
think it's still louder than I expected it to be, but given that this was
the only one that had *any* kind of extra soundproofing, I think it's
probably about as good as I could find short of going with some bizarre
liquid cooling thing. Someone else may think otherwise of course ;-)
What constitutes the mod is a quieter fan in the power supply, a quiet
bearing fan blowing across the MB area, and some sound dampening material
across the top and sides of the removable part of the case. I also got a
MB with a higher quality, quieter cooling fan on the CPU, and my video card
doesn't have a fan.
I *did* have to stretch the power cable for the case fan blowing across the
MB area, but that's because the MB I ended up with (an ECS K7S7A2) isn't
the version with all the "optional" stuff (something not completely clear
from the site I bought it from), and a second case fan header on the corner
nearest the fan is apparently optional.
Hope this helps.
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