AgaBoogaBoo
Lifer
Well, what I did was buy some AC Filter Foam stuff from Wal*Mart. They sell it at Ace's Hardware as well but Wal*Mart gives twice as much at the same price of about $1.50 or so. We applied that to the sides of our cases and it really dampens the noise A LOT! Its much cheaper than the $50 kits online and it does a pretty good job, but most likely the $50 kit will be better, but not by an amount justifying the cost.
Anyway, I did it for my computer origionally and then after showing my dad how quiet it was, we went out and picked 2 packs of this up from Wal*Mart since we had to do other shopping there as well. We applied it to the other 3 desktops since mine already had it and it makes quite a difference!
Mods: The amount of difference these pads made is huge, and I posted in the Cases and Cooling forum which didn't really get a lot of attention and I think that there are people out here who would love to love the noise level of their computer because some people have some really loud fans.
EDIT: Alright, seems like some of you really want to know. I still have to take pics, but I have two links of what I'm talking about.
Link #1 - That is what I'm talking about, only not the 24 pack. Wal*Mart's online site didn't have it, but if you want it, get it at either a Wal*Mart or Ace Hardware store, atleast thats the two places I looked that I found it. Home Depot does not carry it. Wal*Mart gives you a two pack for price of one, incase you want to do more than one computer. Its like $1.50 per pack at either store.
Link 2 - This is the closest thing I found on the company's website.
EDIT 2: Here are the pics:
Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3
Also, you don't have to tell me about my 1337 picture taking skillz and my 1337 IBM webcamera.
One more thing, one of my friend put some of this padding underneath an old 5400RPM drive he has that is pretty loud by today's standards, but 6 or 7 years ago, people didn't have much of a choice in terms of noise. He found it made his hard drive a little quieter because of the vibration absorbtion.
Oh yeah, IMP Update, you need to use thick double sided tape. I tried clear tape and that black electrical tape, only the double sided tape worked. I couldn't find the exact same tape, but its *NOT* going to work with something like this. You need something like this. Go to your local store and see what kind of tape they have similar to that because I only paid like $2 or $3 for the roll of double sided tape.
Anyway, I did it for my computer origionally and then after showing my dad how quiet it was, we went out and picked 2 packs of this up from Wal*Mart since we had to do other shopping there as well. We applied it to the other 3 desktops since mine already had it and it makes quite a difference!
Mods: The amount of difference these pads made is huge, and I posted in the Cases and Cooling forum which didn't really get a lot of attention and I think that there are people out here who would love to love the noise level of their computer because some people have some really loud fans.
EDIT: Alright, seems like some of you really want to know. I still have to take pics, but I have two links of what I'm talking about.
Link #1 - That is what I'm talking about, only not the 24 pack. Wal*Mart's online site didn't have it, but if you want it, get it at either a Wal*Mart or Ace Hardware store, atleast thats the two places I looked that I found it. Home Depot does not carry it. Wal*Mart gives you a two pack for price of one, incase you want to do more than one computer. Its like $1.50 per pack at either store.
Link 2 - This is the closest thing I found on the company's website.
EDIT 2: Here are the pics:
Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3
Also, you don't have to tell me about my 1337 picture taking skillz and my 1337 IBM webcamera.
One more thing, one of my friend put some of this padding underneath an old 5400RPM drive he has that is pretty loud by today's standards, but 6 or 7 years ago, people didn't have much of a choice in terms of noise. He found it made his hard drive a little quieter because of the vibration absorbtion.
Oh yeah, IMP Update, you need to use thick double sided tape. I tried clear tape and that black electrical tape, only the double sided tape worked. I couldn't find the exact same tape, but its *NOT* going to work with something like this. You need something like this. Go to your local store and see what kind of tape they have similar to that because I only paid like $2 or $3 for the roll of double sided tape.
