[linux-audio-user] Quiet case - P180B

I just bought an Antec P180B case. Very nicely put together. Much
quieter than before, although some fan noise still escapes from the top
and back vents. I covered the top vent with the breakout box from the
EWS88MT. That works quite well.

It's big, and heavy. Not the kind of thing you want to be taking to a
gig. I can still hear the hard drives when they're working, but just
barely. The noisiest component in there was the chipset fan, which I've
unplugged - motherboard temp is sitting at 34 C so it's a cool case as
well. Now it's the CPU fan, the servers-in-progress in the room next
door, the Alesis monitor amp which does the 50Hz Tango, and the ringing
in my ears. Hmm. Maybe some good earplugs will fix that :-|

My keyboard sounds more clackety than before as well. Which is good, I
guess.

I still think the fanless Zalman TNN cases are the ultimate (from the
website Note : TNN500A's noise level is below 20dB and cannot be
measured. The anechoic room used by ZALMAN has an ambient noise level of
20dB. ). But waaaay expensive.

bye
John
Received on Sat Jul 15 00:15:04 2006