Towercase ressonance (on pee cees)

[Casper]

My PC is very silent, almost unhearable. I got some cheap engine soundinsulation mats, which are made of a kind of foam with aluminium foil on one side and sticky stuff on the other. I put that all over the inside of my case leaving as few holes as possible (otherwise sound will escape through the holes) and it worked very well.

The only thing to watch out for is that the mats are heat insulating so you need to make sure that you have good airflow through the case or your cpu and other things will overheat. You need at least one case fan. I bought a near silent Pabst one.

In my case cooling was actually improved since all the air is now sucked in through the front of the case where I left a hole in the sound insulation, which causes all the air to travel from the front, over the cpu, and out the back. Before I put in the sound insulation there were holes all over the place in the case where air was sucked in.

[Casper]

Waccoon wrote:

The kind they put under car hoods?  That's a good idea, though it must take a lot of space inside when the case is closed.  I've also heard that old mousepads (with the cloth removed) work pretty well.  Still, nothing beats just throttling down your fans and improving airflow.

Yes, that's the kind. It was available in 10mm thickness where I bought it so there was no problem fitting it on the inside of the case and it's not taking up much space either. It was dirt cheap too, like $4 for half a square meter.

The andvantage the sound insulation is that it will dampen all sounds from the inside of the case. I have a pretty silent WD harddrive in there and with the insulation even the noise from the drive heads is almost unhearable.