Silent Sonata?

[hurrikaane]

Perhaps my fan's rpm is high (2700) but for me the Sonata is hardly silent. What are your experiences?

 

[JammingJay]

My Sonata is relatively quiet, but not silent. Are you talking about the stock 120mm fan that came with the case?

 

[hurrikaane]

Yup.

 

[JammingJay]

I know this might be sound simple but did you connect the fan to the power plug marked 'fan" or just any power plug?

 

[BaboonGuy]

it's far from silent but it's much quieter than 99% of other cases out there. not to mention it just looks fantastic

 

[klah]

What is the make/model# of the 12cm fan they include?

I have a different case but I use a Papst 4412FGL 12cm (55cfm/26dbA/1600rpm @ 12V) that I run @7V, and it is the quietest solution I have found after trying almost every other 'silent' 8cm fan and the L1A-12cm fan.

The only drawback to this model is that it does not have the rpm-sensor-wire so you have to check it visually when lowering the voltage to make sure it does not stall.

 

[ronnn]

I found my sonota far from quiet, but when I checked most of the noise seemed to be coming from my 2.4c stock hsf and 9700pro oem. Probably tommorrow the zalman heat pipe and hsf should arrive. I am hoping this will be much quieter....

 

[tallman45]

I agree with Ronnn, the vid card and the stock P4 fans are the big offenders.

Make sure that you plug in the case fan to the "fan only" connectors.

For disk subsystem the Seagates are the quietest

 

[DancingBear]

Open the side and one by one stop each fan by pressing your finger down into the middle of it (gently). I did this when I first got my Sonata. The loudest fans (in order) were video card, CPU HSF & Northbridge HSF. Once I quieted those down, the hard drives drove me nuts with noise. Replaced that with a new Seagate 7200.7. After all that, the rear 120mm is the only stock fan left.

What I am saying is that I really doubt that the case fan is causing your noise problem.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: ronnn
I found my sonota far from quiet, but when I checked most of the noise seemed to be coming from my 2.4c stock hsf and 9700pro oem. Probably tommorrow the zalman heat pipe and hsf should arrive. I am hoping this will be much quieter....

It definately will be quieter. My Radeon 9500 Pro fan made my Sonata system considerably louder.

 

[SithSolo1]

Originally posted by: DancingBear
Open the side and one by one stop each fan by pressing your finger down into the middle of it (gently). I did this when I first got my Sonata. The loudest fans (in order) were video card, CPU HSF & Northbridge HSF. Once I quieted those down, the hard drives drove me nuts with noise. Replaced that with a new Seagate 7200.7. After all that, the rear 120mm is the only stock fan left.

What I am saying is that I really doubt that the case fan is causing your noise problem.

Won't doing that damage the fan?

 

[DancingBear]

Originally posted by: SithSolo1

Originally posted by: DancingBear Open the side and one by one stop each fan by pressing your finger down into the middle of it (gently). I did this when I first got my Sonata. The loudest fans (in order) were video card, CPU HSF & Northbridge HSF. Once I quieted those down, the hard drives drove me nuts with noise. Replaced that with a new Seagate 7200.7. After all that, the rear 120mm is the only stock fan left. What I am saying is that I really doubt that the case fan is causing your noise problem.

Won't doing that damage the fan?

No. Not if you only do it for a few seconds. Don't touch the blades, just apply incresing pressure to the center until it stops. I can't credit for this method. It is something that I found over at Silent PC Review. Did it myself and it really works.

 

[mbackof]

I have a Sonata with an AMD 2500+ (overclocked to 3200+) with the stock sink/fan, a Seagate HD, and the only fan is the stock 120mm that came with the case. The video card is a NVIDIA Ti4200 which has a small fan on the card. It makes a little bit of noise when it starts up, but after 30 seconds it is pretty quiet. It isn't silent, but it is very quiet and at peak CPU only gets up to 51C \idle 41C. I'm considering adding another case fan to the front to get the temp down a bit, but it is very quiet. My Athlon Thunderbird 900 sounds like a vacuum cleaner.

 

[hurrikaane]

Yes the fan is plugged in right I mean I love the case (looks great, runs very cool) but it's far from the "silent" case that people talk about. My HD is very quiet, so I guess it's the vid card/cpu.

 

[DancingBear]

Originally posted by: mbackof
I have a Sonata with an AMD 2500+ (overclocked to 3200+) with the stock sink/fan, a Seagate HD, and the only fan is the stock 120mm that came with the case. The video card is a NVIDIA Ti4200 which has a small fan on the card. It makes a little bit of noise when it starts up, but after 30 seconds it is pretty quiet. It isn't silent, but it is very quiet and at peak CPU only gets up to 51C \idle 41C. I'm considering adding another case fan to the front to get the temp down a bit, but it is very quiet. My Athlon Thunderbird 900 sounds like a vacuum cleaner.

I am not convinced that a front fan makes that much difference in the Sonata because the air that it pulls in is heated up by the hard drives. You should look at an aftermarket HSF. I went the cheap route and bought a GC-68 from SVC. I also tried the GC-69, but the fan was significantly louder Then I had to change out the fan to a quieter one. It was worth it because not only are they quieter, but provide *much* better cooling.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: DancingBear


I am not convinced that a front fan makes that much difference in the Sonata because the air that it pulls in is heated up by the hard drives. You should look at an aftermarket HSF. I went the cheap route and bought a GC-68 from SVC. I also tried the GC-69, but the fan was significantly louder Then I had to change out the fan to a quieter one. It was worth it because not only are they quieter, but provide *much* better cooling.

I am convinced that a front fan on the Sonata is great at cooling the HDDs