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Hi all, after doing other things, i just wanted to tell the community how my current and probably final solution is constructed: I attached the SilenX fan mentioned earlier to the motherboard cooler. It's the very silent fan with way too insufficient air flow for standard mounting. In this solution ...

please, please please, would you stop this kind of discussion here! This thread is *only* for technical solutions. It was explicitly created to get this technical topic separate from all that discussion about "is my fan too loud", "I don't hear my fan", "why doesn't Korg..." etc. There are other ...

I used a 70mm Acousti AcoustiFan fan running at the slower speed (inline resistor cable) which gives the same airflow as the original fan did you measure it? please don't trust the values given by the manufacturers. it's easy to do: take a big sack with the most thin foil material you can get and ...

also see my kronos album: https://picasaweb.google.com/108510000017492862834/KorgKronosInside?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCJbw_5WhocOPWQ&feat=directlink see the image with caption "better decoupling..." and the following three with the golden SilenX fan. Note, the SilenX has some rubber and felt ...

Hi, I planned to write a review of my current solution, but didn't find time to do so, so I copy part of a private message to davidnaggar to this thread: davidnaggar wrote: Are you currently using the Noiseblocker NB-BlackSilentFan XR2, or something else? Are you done with your experiments, or are ...

As I stated in former posts, directing the air flow should be important for optimizing the cooling. Unfortunately my former attempts generally resulted in *more* noise, because the materials were coupled to the fan and it's noise was amplified. This affected my tests with tunnels that transfered ...

An important caveat to this approach is to make sure you are measuring the temperature at the heat source - those critical heat-generating components that have max temperature limitations. Which component is the critical one could also conceivably change if the airflow is significantly altered. But ...

news about my test of the Silenx mounted directly to the MB-cooler: I found that the Silenx is very quiet and the cooling of the MB is good. But if I attach the bottom cover to it, then it transfers low frequent noise to it. So it should never touch the bottom cover (also avoid contact through ...

Newton's law, which requires a constant heat transfer coefficient, states that the rate of heat loss of a body is proportional to the difference in temperatures between the body and its surroundings. Hmm, I'm not sure if this is the case: from Wikipedia: "Convection-cooling can sometimes be ...

I opened the Kronos and popped in a silentx fan. hmm, looks like you didn't read this thread completely? I'll give you a short summary: The Silenx has only 1/5 of the throughput of the standard fan (see the throughput measurement with the garbage sack). That's the main reason why it's so silent ...

the test was more or less successful... after 7 hours I had a stable temperature of 55.8°C at the bottom of the motherboard cooler, which is a very good value. The right top of the case was warm, but not too much. I also found a reason for having surprising noise increases with an installed bottom ...

I have some new measurements: The Noiseblocker directly controlled by the motherboard was too loud for my taste. So I tried to insert the Zalman fan mate 2 on maximum speed (which is much slower than without it). With my worst case test I got a stable temperature after about 6 hours of about 64°C ...

To verify aribo61's test results thanks for verifying this... I did a new test with the original fan mounted in the original position (but on rubber mounts, because I didn't want to have this heavy noise for several hours. I think, the rubber mounts shouldn't make a difference for cooling. I ...

I think this theory is valid for the moteherboard, but you have to asume the fan is there for the SSD and mostly for the PSU. Both need the fan in order to not overheat the system, the same way a PC or Mac work. So ...Be prepared to live with (more o less) fan noise. I'm quite sure the SSD doesn't ...

I tried some calculations with my measurement table Fan 12V 9V (motherboard) Kronos-Standard 23s 60s Silenx IXP-34-12 >240s -- about half filled >120s >180s Noiseblocker XR2 50s 50s Arctic F8 (80mm) 15s 20s using a linux calculator called qalc, which can handle units, but it doesn't know cfm, so I ...