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Need advice to silence a side panel rattle

Ahhh, nothing more irritating than a rattling side panel.

A few things you can try:

- Try bending the tabs on the side panel a bit. This may make it more difficult to install, but will make it fit snug. When I say "tabs" I mean the parts that hook to the edges of the case. Likely just a slight bend will do, no need to do anything drastic.

- You can line the area with electrical or masking tape. This also will make it fit more snug and make it more difficult to install the side panel. However, there will no longer be metal-on-metal action. :Q

- You can wedge a block of foam or a sponge in this area (maybe stuck on with double-sided foam tape) so that the foam/sponge slightly pushes against the side panel when installed.
 
I think I'll bend the lip of the side panel a bit so it hugs the case a bit. Didn't think of electrical tape. A bit here and there may help too. Cheap solutions are the best. Thanks!
 
I've also used that double sided foam mounting tape for rattle pads. I just leave the protective paper on it to contact the rattley surface. Regular foam insulating tape that is sticky on only one side (most home improvement big boxes and Walmart, etc. carry it) can work as well and is available in a number of sizes, thicknesses and shapes. I've also used tape (low temp winterizing which is pretty thick and translucent) to take up slop in channel fittings like at the front of your door and at the bottom of many others as well. Sheet material like that used in auto sound installations can help where the whole panel is resonant.

.bh.
 
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/akpanorekit.html

Lay it out on the floor, and on your hard drive rails on the side.

Try to lay it out anywhere u have space actually.


The rattling noise is comes from vibration. (duh... but it sourced by a few things)

1. Most of the time its a poorly mounted Fan.
2. Your running a 3000 RPM fan on your cpu heat sink.
3. Your GPU fans are SCREAMING
4. Poorly mounted hard drives.
5. (highly doubt this one) Poorly constructed case.

the mat will make things more rigid in your case, and cause it to vibrate less.
 
The Akasa stuff isn't of much help for general resonance issues, but can be used for compression damping (the open-cell foam tends to compress down to nothing, so closed-cell is better for compression damping) and channel filler. See DansData.com

The auto sound stuff is better.

.bh.
 
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