p182 humming from tricool fans

Countcussy · 15 Apr 2009 at 09:51

Just a long shot, in case you have not got sorted.

I have found the noisiest part of the Antec "P" range is the door. The little hinges are plastic and can rattle/hum quite bad.

On my 182, it does it regularly, esp when the door is closed. Ended up sticking some blu-tac near the hinges.

rob77 · 15 Apr 2009 at 12:01

Ok guys an update to the situation and I feel kinda stupid lol

Well the 2 noctua's turned up today and I installed them, one at top and one rear. They really are very quiet and I had them both running at 800rpm hooked upto the motherboards sysfan connectors. They made absolutely no difference to the humming I was getting although they do run quieter than the tricool's. Ive took the top one off and placed one at the front and one at the rear now. Just out of curiosity I unplugged my second harddrive and the humming stopped. It seems the vibration from the hdd was causing the whole case to rattle. So it looks like I'm gonna be needing a new harddrive, these are getting quite old now anyway.

I have the harddrives mounted vertically in the bottom chamber with the little silicon gommets in place, can this cause humming/vibration to a harddrive? Ive always just had them mounted horizontally before now. What hdd's would people suggest that run nice and quiet? Currently I have got 2 maxtor 250gb's although different model numbers

Cheers

setter · 15 Apr 2009 at 12:08

Yep hard drives can be responsible for case vibrations, i used to have 2 raptors that caused the side panel on my case to rattle a bit, sorted the case out with a bit of blu tac between the panel and the frame, i replaced the raptors with a samsung spinpoint f1 320 gb drive, very quiet fast drive which id highly reccomend.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-057-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=768

rob77 · 15 Apr 2009 at 12:17

Brilliant cheers setter looks just what im after. Do you run a couple of these and how do you have them mounted in your case?

setter · 15 Apr 2009 at 12:26

I run one as my primary c drive, with my older, slower western digital caviar as a backup storage drive, both are mounted horizontally in the bottom drive bay on my akasa eclipse.

rob77 · 15 Apr 2009 at 12:43

Thanks I think ill get a couple ordered although undecided on what size yet. Mine must be well over 5 years old now

Banny · 15 Apr 2009 at 16:38

The bearings went on my tri-cools very early after buying them, had them changed to the orange tri-cools they are better now.
I had the same sound it did my head in, could not trace where it came from.

OVC · 15 Apr 2009 at 17:24

Banny said:
The bearings went on my tri-cools very early after buying them, had them changed to the orange tri-cools they are better now.
I had the same sound it did my head in, could not trace where it came from.

Yep same happened to me as well, this is why I now use either Koolance or Xcellence... Although I'm upgrading to Arctic Cooling fans instead which are suposed to be very nice.

Sean_UK · 15 Apr 2009 at 21:04

freddie64 said:
Would you be able to use soft mounts on the top fan? It is only fastened with 2 screws and wedged in

I used x2 soft mounts, and wrapped the metal clips with a rubber material.

freddie64 · 16 Apr 2009 at 08:30

If you want to keep the HDD, you could do the bungie mod and mount it in the 5.25" bay.

Guardsmon · 16 Apr 2009 at 13:44

its strange its rattling the case even with the rubber gromits provided by antec in place...

rob77 · 16 Apr 2009 at 21:07

Guardsmon said:
its strange its rattling the case even with the rubber gromits provided by antec in place...

Well thats what I thought and guessed it must have been on its way out. I reseated it and it was still doing the same so unplugged it for a day and there was no rattling at all. I wanted to watch a tv programme I had stored on there so last night hooked it up again thinking it would do that same. To my surprise the humming/rattling had gone and has been ok since. Before I could actually feel the vibration on the top of the case, now it feels a lot calmer. I'm still going to replace both drives I think as I want more storage anyway but its quite weird how it has sorted itself out.