Carpeting cases....

[narzy]

UBC you asked me in a PM what I would reccomend, I have used this stuff and it works wonders.



<< &quot;Badger Carpet&quot; makes this stuff and is available in many colors. If you guys have ever seen &quot;sissel&quot; which is a wallcovering like fabric. This is very much like that but thicker....still less than 1/4&quot; though. No loose fibre's either. It adds that little bit of &quot;mass&quot; to the sides and top...stopping those vibrations. >>



I support his recommendation 100%.

 

[UCBPride]

where can I get this &quot;Badger Carpet&quot;??

 

[Fuzzmuncher]

Use some &quot;pimpin&quot; pink shag carpet on the outside

 

[Dill]

none of them will work. I bought an entire roll of it for my PC, put it on every panel, and it did exactly NADA to reduce noise. All it did was make my PC heavier..so I took it all out (And noise levels didn't increase at all)

I've said it once and I'll say it again, Dynomat does not absorb sound, it absorbs vibration. So if your PC vibrates alot, go ahead and Dynomat it, otherwise, don't bother (look towards foam or some other type of thick material to absorb sound).

This makes sense also in a car application...why would you want to absorb the sound? you don't, you want to absorb the road vibrations and bass vibrations of the body panels so they don't resonate and make annoying vibrations, not absorb the sound.

 

[smp]

isn't sound just vibration though? It gets picked up by our ear drums and our processors... er, brains.. pick that information up and we can 'hear' it?

 

[HomerSapien]

Anybody used this stuff from 2cooltek? acoustic foam or this stuff neoprene sound deadener

Im curious to see if it would work at all. The neoprene seems like it would greatly heat up a case

 

[NightTrain]

I don't even like to put my components on a carpeted floor because of static. Filling the inside of my pc with it would be unthinkable.

 

[cookieman]

About that static electricity thing I guess that all the carpet goes on the case whitch itself is grounded, right? So if it going somewhere it definitely goes into the ground.
I did not put carpet on sensitive devices (CPU, HDD,...).

I had noticed zero static electricity so far.
Cheers,

 

[Dill]

yes, sound is vibration. But air and solid objects vibrate at different frequencies. Also, its difficult to 'absorb' vibration out of the air with a solid object, but it is easy to absorb it out of a solid object. Dynomat actually doesn't absorb vibration, it adds mass to whatever its applied to which reduces its tendencies to vibrate.