SimenGaming
New member
Hi!
I noticed that a lot of you guys have the 650D here on OC3D, and I thought I couldn't be the only one with the problem where the front fan has a bass-ish, annoying sound to it, so I figured I'd post some pictures on how I fixed that.
First off all this problem is caused by the grill in front off the fan sitting to close to the fan, and blocking it from pulling air into the case.
Before you start doing anything to your case, you could try to use a extra set of spacers on the fan to give it some room. It almost worked out but I still had that annoying bass-ish sound to it, but I've red that it helped out for some people.
This is what I'm talking about:
So I went to war with my Dremel.
All you have to do is to cut around the edges like this (not exactly rocket-science):
Here's just a cool pic of some sparks midways through the job:
When you're done it should look something like this:
My plan was to make it smooth, but my cutting tool broke so I'll just have to fix that later.
A pic with with the front panel on:
As you can see it doesn't look that bad although I couldn't make it smooth, but you can't see it with the dust filter on.
I hope this might help someone with a computer sounding like a helicopter.
My computer now sounds like a computer, and thanks for reading! (Also a thanks to my friend who helped out on this project.)
(If posted in the wrong section, could an admin please move it to the right one?)
I noticed that a lot of you guys have the 650D here on OC3D, and I thought I couldn't be the only one with the problem where the front fan has a bass-ish, annoying sound to it, so I figured I'd post some pictures on how I fixed that.
First off all this problem is caused by the grill in front off the fan sitting to close to the fan, and blocking it from pulling air into the case.
Before you start doing anything to your case, you could try to use a extra set of spacers on the fan to give it some room. It almost worked out but I still had that annoying bass-ish sound to it, but I've red that it helped out for some people.
This is what I'm talking about:
So I went to war with my Dremel.
All you have to do is to cut around the edges like this (not exactly rocket-science):
Here's just a cool pic of some sparks midways through the job:
When you're done it should look something like this:
My plan was to make it smooth, but my cutting tool broke so I'll just have to fix that later.
A pic with with the front panel on:
As you can see it doesn't look that bad although I couldn't make it smooth, but you can't see it with the dust filter on.
I hope this might help someone with a computer sounding like a helicopter.
My computer now sounds like a computer, and thanks for reading!
(Also a thanks to my friend who helped out on this project.)(If posted in the wrong section, could an admin please move it to the right one?)
