Shushing Your Shuttle - A Shuttle Mod Guide

[Mikki]

Check out AndyT's guide for improving the cooling while quieting down a Shuttle box. This is a great guide for those of you looking to do that but aren't sure what to do....;)

Shushing The Shuttle (http://www.bleedinedge.com/guides/shush_shuttle/shush_shuttle_01.html)

Feel free to post your questions and comments here in this thread! :)

[AndyT]

Hope the article is informative for those of you with Shuttles boxes. We plan to post more how-to's like this and some product reviews very soon. Let us know what you think!

[Flamer]

Very nice read:)

One of these days I am gonna get one of those pretty little shuttle boxes. :thumb:

[Mikki]

Me too! ;):D

[Snafu]

Good story. Keep them coming.

Will probably build one for the family when my old PIII gives up the ghost (yep, they get the old stuff :lol: ).

[death metal]

Very good story...I particularly like the part where the coolness require AndyT to wear the shades :)....

[RotorHead]

Good one Andy :thumb:

I got two of those little suckers myself. Going to work on a few mod ideas also.

I think there is enough room on the left lower side near the front to put a thin quiet 60mm fan so it blows across the memory and chipset area. If I can find a 60mm blue LED fan it would match nicely. :chit:

[AndyT]

Ah yes, Rotorhead. I was pondering that same idea, but my Shuttle is running very cool, so i ditched it for now. If you wanted to run 270fsb with a 2.6C like I had it originally, then I'm sure that would really help.

[eva2000]

awesome article i love my SB61G2 but not cutting it up yet... i get around the same case temps as your modded SB61G2 just with a 80 to 92mm adaptor stuck on the back but that pulling @ 120cfm a complete opposite of your quite SB61G2 :D

http://www.fileshosts.com/Shuttle/SB61G2/2/web/

[AndyT]

Eva2000,

How is your hearing? LOL
It must sound like a jet during take off. :) I have one of the travel carrying cases, so I needed to keep the fan low profile to fit.

Later m8

[cybergecko]

Not a bad guide, however I got my system a lot cooler, and just as quiet, just by putting in daul 60mm fan blowholes, replaced heatpipe with TT smartfan 2 and a 60mm intake fan @ front of right hand side...

[Paragon]

Very nice read AndyT :thumbs: I will be building my wife one of those in the the not to distant future, great ideas as she can't stand much fan noise :rock:

[AndyT]

cybergecko: One of my requirements was to not to hack up the case. I don't like to do that if I don't have to. I prefer the "stealth" approach. The 60mm "quiet fans" I have are louder than the two fans I put in. I do appecite what a dremel can do. ;) I'm sure that yours looks pretty cool tho.

[roadrunner_2004]

THXs a lot AndyT! ;) Looks really good.
Just one remark regarding additional noise level reduction: the active NB cooler used by Shuttle was the most disturbing source of noise :beat: in my shuttle. I exchanged it by the passive Zalman NB47J and put a small active fan (with a poti) and finally I got it quiet as I would stay in the forrest with no increased board temp! :rock:

[DeNs]

Nice :) I really like the look of the front panel on the G2 series, compared to the SN45G that i've got.

I didn't want to hack up the case just yet, so I mounted another Sunon 80mm fan indentical to the one already on it, but it was still pretty loud. I decided to go back to the original setup with just one fan though.

I use a camera bag to transport it around, and it has a lot more space than the shuttle ones, in length that is. I'm planning to get an 80-120MM adapter and mounting a silent slim fan onto it in the near future.

Good guide though :)

---dens