ramiro77 wrote:Hey Tetrium could you tell me more about that thing for hard disk drives? I'm curious about it 😎
I think this would be a good read, it's not a very long article and it's also fairly recent.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article8-page2.html
I did it 100% DIY-style about 8 years ago and I don't think I saved any pics.
But back then I only had drives which were old even back then and quite often I found them to be very noisy. I did already know (remember that I was only into retro computing for a few years back then and my collection was a lot smaller, so I had much fewer options to choose from) that harddrives needed cooling, otherwise I'd just wrap em in some old worn-out t-shirt or something. But I also noticed that in several builds of mine, it wasn't only the (whining) noise of the drives which I was perceiving as noise, but that the other major source of this noice was vibration (more common in cheaper less sturdy cases) as the noice could be both increased as well as decreased by changing other components in the area. For instance, putting the CDROM reader in the lowest 5.25in slot instead of the top one (which I'd usually do), made the front part of the case near the area where the harddrive was mounted, more stiff, so it would significantly decrease vibration (resonating) in the front of the case and thereby decrease noise.
But I got interested and started thinking of ways to further decrease the amount of vibration of the case due to the harddrive and the best onbious way was to completely decouple it from the case.
Then I got creative (somewhat), I ended up thinking up a quick fix by removing the drive from it's 3.5in bay, then screwing back the 4 screws to almost completely into the screwholes of the drive and then using 4 of those wires (I dunno what kind of wires I exactly used, possibly it was those iron threads with green plastic around it so it would not short), then tighten the 4 screws so the 4 wires would be firmly attached to the drive and then mount the 4 wires individually inside one of the 5.25in bays, basically pulling and loosening all 4 wires till the drive hung horizontally and then secures the 4 wires to the case by a simple knot.
It worked perfectly well and was supercheap! ...till the case got moved, each time I did that (for instance if I were to put the case on it's side to add or remove expansion cards) I would have to 'recalibrate' the 4 wires again and after a while that got a bit too tedious and as I had already 'proven' that it kinda worked and as I was moving to a new place, I retired that system and never put it back together after my move.
These days things are a bit different though, silent drives are all over the place now so if you have a little money, you can just get a drive that doesn't need to be silenced in the first place (I got a lot of 20GB laptop drives, these are small, very fast and excellently unheard of 😁), but if you use an old drive and the sound annoys you, I'd advice you to use the DIY methods you can find on the web, like the one I linked to in the start of this reply 😀
MrEWhite wrote:Get a plain TNT2, they are dirt cheap and much better than the M64.
I don't think his board has an AGP slot