any suggestion for sound insulation for my cooler master stacker casing, wat to buy, where to apply those sound insulation material???

CM stacker...?
i think it is hard... it is designed to have great air flow.... with 10+ 5'25" bay in front, you can imagine that...

haha, i think can be gua... anyone can give me a guide??? i found some sound proofing stuffs, acoustipack Acousti can apply at cm stacker??

take off all fans, then apply acoustipack like you just mentioned in front all cover and even side panel.... so how you think about inside temp of your cpu and vga card?

U shouldn't have bought an open casing like the Stacker if you can't stand the noise lor.

The tip is ... sound travel in straight line but air can bengkok.

Like the other dood says..it's pretty pointless to sound insulate a Stacker unless u sacrifice all the bays, cover up everything and redesign the airflow

you should try cushion shops, you know, those cushion shops for cars and so on?

my dad went and bought some from that place and they sold him an [around] 8ft x 4ft piece for RM5 or something

look for the really really soft type!

haha, i think juz reduce the fan speed, i wanna sound insulate it cause i juz install a medium speed 34++ dba fan... not so strong the sound though... i think juz get a fan controller will do..

like that just use water cooler, so you can take off all others which is useless. then will reduce the noise.

haha, actually i am on water cooling now, but just the cpu, others such as chipset, graphic card all on air... but lazy to include other parts to my wc loop since it is difficult to remove the graphic card when water cooling it... so i decide to use air on other parts...

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i got akasa paxmate coming soon, will it work if i apply it to the side panel???

This post has been edited by lichyetan: Sep 28 2006, 01:44 PM

use dynamat like the 1 people use in cars

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=332787

link above .... last few pictures show more sound insulated area.

its black & highly condensed. got them from Car HiFi shop ... cost around RM 20-30 for the whole casing to fully do up ..

sacrificing some air intake area for silence.

actually the akasa paxmate is alright for high pitched sounds.. so if u have deltas in ur case then it will help A LITTLE. but the amount of screaming the deltas do...it doesnt make much of a difference.

other than that.. eeerr.......

i used to use it in my HEC case and the only reason i used it was it was easy to work with as its slim and i wanted to make my UV mod glow brighter (the black background helps)

u should go to car accesory shops. if u have the money get the dynamat which will cost a bomb. if not theres this sponge thing sound insulation material (usually the cheapest) which is about 1/2 an inch thick and good enough for PC use. same thing as uglyvamp uses. can see the pix in the link he posted above

One question though, with the fitting of the fully sound insulations, doesn't it make the temperature up a bit?

Help me to understand...

stacker a huge casing man..wana insulate aso hard lor..the front bezel is the worst part

wat i do to silent my stacker is reduce fans n reduce speed

Actually no big deal wat. It doesn't matter what case u use. PC noise mainly comes from the fans. All u need to do is use CM Silent fans for all the intake exhaust ports. Then get a nice silent HSF n u'll be in silent PC heaven. My LL V1200 is oso full of holes like the stacker yet it's super silent coz I use all 120mm silent fans. Even the fan on the XP120 is higher flow at 65CFM but it's a nice silent fan too. There's no noise padding in my rig at all.

Noise dampening materials r only worth the time n effort if u buy the real stuff like Dynamat. Those r real bitumen based pads which actually add mass dampening to the panels. Other than that, it's all a waste of time n money.

my V1000 plus very silent too when the AC is on otherwise the AKASA 650W PSU will play the sound like jet engine!

the kick is to redue the sound with quite powerful fans ..

if ur system already has good cooling, good ambient,

then sacrificing 2-3C is worthy .. in my opinion.

my pc internal ambient runs at around 36-38C without A/C on ..
but i like it quieter

So that means, that sound insulation thingy do consume some cooling power eeh?

Man, i'd never use those things...

Expensive + Temperature Raiser = Silent Setup...

ever tried a material called superlon?
might work.

With sound insulation, on watercooling for CPU only.

Opteron 146 OC @ 3.0ghz

Full tower, side panel closed with Air-Con turn on after few hours.


Didn't have pic for my rig yet cos digital cam not at home now.

Wan ask, if using this thing... jow to install it? can teach ? thx.

This is a nice way to reduce the noise, but...
It's not to nice leh...

Just think if you were to use this method on a sidewindow'ed case...

aik... u are keeping all the heat inside ur rig!!! its thermal proof now!

Yup...its will only increase ur temp and ur fan speed as well...not a good idea

I use a similar stuff like this, Insuflex.

a few usage for it.

1. Heat
2. Sound Dampening.

I use it on my Car, i have it fixed on the floor, on the roof on the firewall and doors.

it insulates the sound a bit, but a real difference was in the temp.
During hot days, i dunt feel the heat that much inside the car, especially in the afternoon.

So i can imagine if you guys/gals use this inside a pc casing, not will it insulate the sound, but also heat. it will keep heat inside the case.

Good Luck.

I'd say, just use those CM UV SIlent Fans... im using those on my 24/7 rig, so i can sleep and still Download ... ehehe...

But...
But...

Those CM uv fans is too slow...
It's like it don't even alive...

I found the Arcyan Blackfire UV LED120mm 29dB only 75cfm or Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm LED type 1 21dBa 79cfm (RM35) all is nice fan...


This post has been edited by Death god - Winter heart: Oct 3 2006, 11:14 AM

you can try using powerful fans with VR. that way you can slow down the speed when you want to sleep and max tune it when you're using.

Yeah it is slow , but to me, its better to have some airflow than no airflow at all

How's ur Proc Heat now shawty ???

This post has been edited by zahri: Oct 3 2006, 04:51 PM

I think we can roast turkey inside the case with that kinda insulation...

dont exagerate leh ... sound insulating ur casing not always trap heat wat ..

i've been insulating my every pc since 2003 till now .. i've no problem with heat as long as u know how to cool up ur casing.

do a search on my me in this casemodding section & u'll see few rigs i do up are all sound insulated inside ..

can also try sikadamp.