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Showerthought: my $45 sound dampening foam kit saved my sleeper build, but I've seen it cook other people's temps
I dropped $45 on a foam kit from a local shop in Denver last month for my sleeper, an old beige 1998 case holding a modern 12 core chip and a big GPU. On one side, that foam killed the fan drone and the hard drive chatter, and my case temps barely moved, maybe 2 degrees up at most under load. On the other side, a buddy tried the same thing in a smaller case with one exhaust fan and his GPU temps jumped 9 degrees because the foam starved his airflow. Now I keep hearing people argue foam is a must for sleepers and others say it is a trap that turns any old case into an oven. I think it comes down to how much intake you already have, but I want to hear from folks here. Did sound foam help your sleeper or burn you on temps, and what case were you running?
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johns181d ago
That Denver foam kit sounds like the same deal I got, and my 2003 Antec with 3 intake fans barely saw a 3 degree bump while the noise dropped a ton. Your buddy's setup makes sense though, stuffing foam in a one exhaust case is just choking the poor thing.
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