Thermal baybus - does such a thing exist? (and at a reasonable price?)

[Jeff7]

My mom just said that the noise of my one PC is driving her nuts - she's the kind who hates the sound of any kind of motor; she prefers light music, or birds. It just never occurs to me that a PC might be loud, because I find the sound of motors, like PC fans, to be very relaxing; bird calls are too chaotic for me.
But anyway, the system has:
120mm intake
2x80mm intakes (rear and front) - the rear might be better suited for exhaust actually, don't know why it's an intake
80mm CPU
60mm exhaust
PSU exhaust (80mm and 92mm)

The power supply fans are very quiet (Antec Truepower 430); the 80mm CPU fan is muffled by the case pretty effectively. But that still leaves 4 fans exposed to the outside, generating noise. They're UV reactive and LED fans (except the 60mm). Buying Stealth fans for it would cost me about $40...and it probably wouldn't be quiet enough.

Is there a baybus that can control the speed of fans automatically according to the temperature? Probably is, I just don't know what to look for.

 

[Lord Evermore]

I think you could easily find such a thing by searching with various possible terms. I just saw a review yesterday of a blue pyramid thing... ah, http://www.twistedmods.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=238 Not necessarily a useful product the way I see it.

The rear fans should absolutely be exhaust. You're pretty much violating every facet of ATX thermal design right now. However you really seem to have far too many fans. Unless you're seriously overclocking with lots of extra voltage, the 120mm intake and PSU exhausts, plus one rear exhaust behind the CPU should be plenty. A Panaflo fan is almost completely silent and works great for the exhaust.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
I think you could easily find such a thing by searching with various possible terms. I just saw a review yesterday of a blue pyramid thing... ah, http://www.twistedmods.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=238 Not necessarily a useful product the way I see it.

The rear fans should absolutely be exhaust. You're pretty much violating every facet of ATX thermal design right now. However you really seem to have far too many fans. Unless you're seriously overclocking with lots of extra voltage, the 120mm intake and PSU exhausts, plus one rear exhaust behind the CPU should be plenty. A Panaflo fan is almost completely silent and works great for the exhaust.

This system is rather loaded. GF2 Ti videocard, WinTV PVR-350, Tbred 1700 running over 2GHz, 8RDA+ motherboard, 3 hard drives, 2 of which (7200rpm) reside in the 5.25" bays, with the one 80mm fan blowing directly over them; it's mounted to the case front's plastic faceplates.
When the thing is inactive, it's just running SETI, so the CPU will be doing most of the heat production then. But when the PVR-350 kicks in (about 2x a day, an hour each time) then the CPU, RAM, hard drives, and PVR-350 are all making a good amount of heat.

Yes, I did use the Search feature, but it turned up nothing. Thermal Baybus turned up 0 matches. Thermal Bay Bus, temperature baybus, etc...nothing.

 

[Lord Evermore]

I meant search Google.