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Re: How to silence your d8b's PSU

Postby zetell » Sat Mar 13, 2021 1:45 pm

doktor1360 wrote:Fractal Silent Series fans... dead quiet. I've had them in my D8B since the summer 2013 along with a CF drive assembly. I'll definitely have to agree, the IDE disk drive is anything but quiet.


I've also done the CF card upgrade and everything is dead silent. When I did these upgrades (change of fans and CF card) 5-6 years ago I was happy with it.

But now I've started to think it may be too little cooling coming from the fans as they don't really move that much air.
I don't know which fans you have installed, but I checked the 50×50 and 80×80 fans from Fractal and they don't have a larger air flow than the ones from NoiseBlocker.
Maybe I'm overthinking this, but it would be interesting to hear if anyone have experienced any issues after installing these low-flow(but silent) fans?
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Re: How to silence your d8b's PSU

Postby Phil.c » Sat Mar 13, 2021 8:20 pm

I've done another temperature check as my previous figures were from memory, my studio is around 23deg, I've had the desk running for two hours, the temperature inside is 35c.
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Re: How to silence your d8b's PSU

Postby Phil.c » Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:17 pm

Here's the gauge, has anyone seen one of these on a CPU, just wondering if it was a later fitting?

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Re: How to silence your d8b's PSU

Postby zetell » Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:57 pm

No, new to me.
Would be a nice and handy feature ti have though.

Is that picture showing the HDR?
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Re: How to silence your d8b's PSU

Postby Phil.c » Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:02 am

Yes, one of my HDR's above it, I have three.
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Re: How to silence your d8b's PSU

Postby zetell » Tue Mar 23, 2021 1:03 pm

I ended up with a "NB-Multiframe S-Series M8-S3" fan for the power supply.
Found the datasheet for the original fan installed in the d8b PC and the airflow from that is 65 m3/h.
The M8-S3 from NoiseBlocker is 59 m3/h, so it's only 10% less.
For the CPU I installed a Saunon fan (MF50101V1-1000U-A99). Airflow for this is 23,6 m3/h. It do make some sound (still less than the original ones), but I could not find a fan providing enough airflow if I went for a supersilent type. Maybe a more silent model/brand will show up in the future.
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Re: How to silence your d8b's PSU

Postby arjepsen » Sun Mar 28, 2021 11:38 am

I ended up using a Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 3 / copper lite cpu cooler.
It's the biggest and quietest cpu cooler I found that works with the CPU unit. I did replace the fan with a 80mm noctua fan - plenty of airflow, and dead silent - no chance that will overheat :-)
It's a bit too high for the HDR though, unless you do as me, and find a different location for the small pcb board above the cpu socket.
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Re: How to silence your d8b's PSU

Postby ilmenator » Sun Apr 11, 2021 10:45 am

I also used an old Acrtic Cooler fan with 80mm diameter that I had laying around, and printed a fan adapter from 50mm to 80mm using a friend's 3D printer. A larger fan can produce more air flow while remaining silent - you just can't do that with smaller fans. So a mechanical adapter you can 3D print yourself like these really helps.
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