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Here what I did to silence the Asrock 330HT
1. I bought the Elina 30mm 5v fan from Farnell and plugged into the spare HD power plug. Somebody commented that this fan's specs were 17db. I do not believe that, this fan is very noisy, whining+humming+vibrating. It is on its way back to Farnell for a 18.95 quid refund.
2. I used 4 Acousti fan mounts to mount the 30mm fan that came with Asrock onto the CPU cooler. I had to trim them a bit with a knife and the squeeze them into the CPU cooler holes. It is now almost completely silent!
3. I used 4 Acousti fan mounts to mount the 50mm fractal design on the back. I had to trim them a bit and use them the reverse way.
The Fractal design fan is now the noisier of the two. Overall quite acceptable.
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brabilla Wrote:2. I used 4 Acousti fan mounts to mount the 30mm fan that came with Asrock onto the CPU cooler. I had to trim them a bit with a knife and the squeeze them into the CPU cooler holes. It is now almost completely silent!
3. I used 4 Acousti fan mounts to mount the 50mm fractal design on the back. I had to trim them a bit and use them the reverse way.
Hi Brabilla - nice idea. Did you use the AFM02 or AFM03 versions of the fan mounts (on the page below)?
http://www.acoustiproducts.com/en/ultra_...mounts.asp
Would you mind posting some pics of your installation?
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I used AFMO2.
* I trimmed the arrow bit (portion of it), shaped as >, to fit the fractal desgn fan
*I partially trimmed the second circular bit, to fit the two on the top of the CPU cooler
* I partially trimmed both circular bit, to fit them in the hole at the bottom of the cpu
The fan is loose on the accousti mounts between the two coolers. If you fix it, the CPU cooler vibrates and hums.
I will post photos at the weekend.
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i got my asrock ion 330 ht-bd 3 days ago, from ebay, with a 500GB disk and 4GB ramm, and so far i hear nothing. It works perfectly.