How do I make my Eclipse as quiet as possible?

cu3ed · 9 Feb 2007 at 11:59

.....cause the hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm is getting annoying.

The CPU fan is running slow my on the side of my Ninja HS, and i have two Amber Akaska fans one at the fron and rear.

So I assume its the HDD's which are causing the low humm noise? their are three of them.

Anyone any ideas about what i can do with them or how so silence the whole thing, was looking at suspending the hdd's but does anyone know of an effective way of doing this?

cu3ed · 9 Feb 2007 at 12:32

Im not sure what you mean but hassarding a guess do these slip on the scres, kinda like a washer?

cu3ed · 9 Feb 2007 at 12:34

Nope, i got the Akaska All in One thingy...managed to attach them both to it and after some fiddleing got them down in speed, its just that depressing "ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" going on the background, I mostly use mine for a lot of music production amongst the usual stuff. Hence why im trying to get it down as much as possible.

Was thinking of putting my 6300 back to stock speed and removing the Ninja fan, but to be honest, I cant notice any real sound coming from it.

markyb said:
Are your Akasa Ambers running at full speed? I found them quite loud at 12v. Ive current got mine half way on a fan controller.

cu3ed · 9 Feb 2007 at 15:30

Great guys thanks for the info, will take a look over the weekeend at rubber grommets , and see what difference the front fan makes.

Would fitting the grommets with the screws on the fan help reduce some noise? even alittle?.

cu3ed · 9 Feb 2007 at 15:52

Wel ive owned it for about well over a year now and dont see myself changing it.......maybe when I get a complete new rig....but was thinking of COMPLETELY dimantleing the whole thing and starting ground up making every possible effort to reduce noise.

Dont know though, it might be one of those "good idea at the time" kinda things lol.

cu3ed · 12 Feb 2007 at 10:55

Okay I tried this.

Took the HDDs out, and managed to get some tough but light kind of bungie/ elastic typr material.

Weaved a couple through the front HD stack and layed the Hds ontop of that.

now that seems to have reduced some noise,BUT, I seem to notice the fan noises even more!

So im gonna have to find what I can do what i suspect is a problem with the front fan and HSF, was thinking of taking the the HSF from the side of the Ninja HS (which is stupily tight IMO), and suspendint it just infront of it.

Would this work/ help much?