Completed Completed Silverstone CW-02 (1 Viewer)

[PVRJunky]

I want the air to flow through the hole case, and not to be sucked in the direct way through this case grid. So therefore I just closed it with tape. I did this in the end, so it's not that beautyful.

By the way. I build two new HTPCs for my father (LianLi PC-A16 Standardcase which fits standing in a thin closed rack) and for my brother (Silverstone LC20). I changed the Motherboard to the DDR2-model. Because DDR3 was only expensive and does not make any sense for an PC that is not for gaming. For these PCs I used the standard Boxed CPU-Fan, which is very good and only hearable in full speed, on a Zalman Fan-Controller, but i would suggest the Scythe Ninja Mini. The LC20 has now two iXtrema PRO Fans, 80*80*25mm, 30,6m³/h, 1300 U/Min., 9db(A) which are almost noiseless. The LianLi case has a very good airflow construction. There is an fan mount directly top of the pci-slots, so the fanless graphiccard is also ventilated with a 120mm scythe S-Flex fan with 800 U/min. The case also gives room to use silentmaxx HD-silencers.
Here are some pictures, which my wife took.

Next to the harddrives the loudest component is the fan of the powersupply. Allthough it is also an 120mm fan, it is running too fast, and the bearing is not as good as the perfect scythe S-Flex Fans which are really non hearable. The fan is not to be controlled from extern. So here is still room for improvement. Who knows an noiseless controlable powersupply? By the way the controlling of the fans is not perekt with the motherboard of Gigabyte. Speedfan does not work with the chipset. And the BIOS only controls the CPU-Fan and Case Fan 2. So both new case got external fan controlers.

At my case I took out the 3,5" harddrive cage, an drilled 4 wholes in the frame which holded the cage. Then I put the harddrives in two silentmaxx HD-silencers and hang them up at the frame.

But there is still vibration. If the case stands on a non wooden surface, you cannot hear the vibrations, but standing in my antique cabinet, the wooden shelf is working like an guitar-corpus an make the vibrations hearable.
With bubble wrap under the feet of the case the problem ist solved, but the bubble are loosing the air after a while, and my closet starts to hum again. Now i am looking for some celluar rubber, to solve the humming problem.

Never ending story....

But i am quite happy with the system and hopefully my brother and my father will also be, when I am finished setting up the software.

 

[mphilipp]

Ok, nice one. I'm going to build a HTPC using the same CW02 case. I ordered it last week, but there's a 4 week delivery time...

I'm going to put in a Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H board with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ with Scythe Ninja, 2Gb RAM, LG GGC-H20L (same as yours?), Western Digital 500GB Green Power and a Silverstone ST30NF (Fanless).

I'm a little ambitious and want to use only the supplied 12cm fan of the Silverstone case. The CPU has to keep itself cool with the Ninja (w/o fan) and the PSU is a fanless model. I think I can pull it off; the case will be standing free so fresh air is available. If it runs a little hot, I can always decide on adding fans to the case.

 

[christiand]

I got the same case. Bought around 6 months ago. Its an amazing case. It is very big so if you are also interested you should check if you have the room the place it. What I liked most about this case is the fact that it can hold 6 harddisks, which made it ideal as a storage/mediacenter server.

For the main post I think you should replace your fan on the cpu. Air is being sucked in with the fan below the hdd's and then the airflow should go towards the back. So its better to just hold on to that airflow instead of creating an extra one that pushes air out to the right side.