I Silenced my Gaming PC for $25 (+ Wood)

Can we quiet down a noisy gaming PC with a single trip to the home improvement store? We weren’t sure, but we had to find out!

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:13 A Simple Plan
2:40 Everyone's a critic...
4:45 He's not a scientist.
7:02 Making Progress
9:15 But will it catch fire?
11:22 A (slightly) less janky test.
13:26 Why is he still on the floor?

[DIYPerks]

Wow, that comparison at the end! This is actually a great concept and well executed at a value price. Great job!! Ty for the shoutout haha xD

[randomfrankp]

That's the size of a $3500 studio apartment in New York

[ShockingPikachu]

2:52 as an Australian who grew up with the worksafe PSAs, Linus not using safety glasses with a nail gun unlocked memories lmao

[BarryTGash]

"this principle can apply to all kinds of noise making things in your life..."

Baby goes in the box!

[jaydenwarnke]

I love that Linus says "It's like it's in another room" when in essence he built a separate soundproof room for it.

[kuromad]

I worked in a lab where people complained about the noise the nitrogen generator made. The manufacturer stated that the device shouldn't be in the same room as where people are working unless they use hearing protection, but that wasn't really an option, neither was moving it. So they made a thing like this for it and charged an enormous amount of money. It worked great until it almost exploded because condensation couldn't evaporate and corroded the entire thing. So lesson learned: there might be more to worry about than just cooling.

[TurboVisBits]

Linus you'll stop putting your hand near the nail penetration zone once you attach your fingers to it...

[FredyMcfly]

Never step at the other side of a nail gun, doesn't matter how thick your wood is

[StrudleMaster]

As someone in a maintenance position, Linus holding power tools and interacting with people is an anxiety i didn't need

[Zbroification]

Linus went to Home Depot to refine his dad skills

[swixxtyswixx]

I'd would take this idea and incorporate it as the legs of one side of a home made desk. The other side I would do the same width and turn them into drawers for storage. This would be a neat and easy way of hiding all the wires too as you could channel the desktop to have the wires lay inside. Love these DIY that are affordable and don't require any special tools.

[saralovejoy]

That first nailgun shot with the way he was holding the plywood scared the fuck out of me

[uranblut]

They forgot the asbestos sheets to make it fireproof.

[chasm]

Just a suggestion from a long-time woodworker: when you're working with plywood a general rule of thumb is that you want to use blades with high tooth counts. I stick with an 80 tooth blade for my table saw when cutting sheet goods, but anything over 40 teeth should be okay if the carbides are sharp. For any other cutting tool, use whatever blade you have that's both sharp and has a high tooth count. The reasoning is that the higher the tooth count, the smaller of a cut each individual tooth makes, so it limits how much tearing you'll get because it's taking many smaller cuts at a time.

[serichard]

Safety tip for Nail gun use... Nail gun nails will bend to either side when going into the wood, so orient the nail gun such that it will send the nails into wood when it goes to the side, not out the edges. I.e. if going down a strip don't hold inline but at a 90 degree angle moving the nail gun sideways down the strip, not vertically.

[carlospcpro]

We definitely need the DIY PERKS response 😂

[malachiclifton]

As a long time woodworker, watching Linus shoot a nail with his hand right there was scary.

[XDUDE]

Sound baffle mazes are use in recording studios for room to room cable runs and ducting for AC and heating while maintaining isolation.

[wettuga]

- Look at my completely silent gaming PC.
- But it's just a wooden box!
- Exactly.

[NeoDemocedes]

Many years ago, I made a PC case based on this baffle box concept. The components were all mounted to an acoustically isolated metal plate, which is similar to an open air test stand. The box was designed to be roughly the profile of a standard two-drawer file cabinet. It fit under the desk, on wheels, so it could easily roll out when I needed to work on it. The top hinged up for super easy access to the components, as the motherboard was mounted horizontally. All air got pulled in through the bottom, through a standard 1' x 1' x 1" HVAC filter that could be easily replaced without moving the case. It had two levels for components: One for the motherboard and video card on top, and another for fans, a radiator for the water loop, and all the drives on the bottom.

I loved it while it lasted, but I didn't anticipate how large video cards would become. I'll do a redesign when the kids move out and the loudest thing in the house is again my PC.