Put a resistor in line with one of the wires to the fan, if youre not
running 2 drives you'll make do with a fan on 7v...
Or even better, put a potentiometer inline and you'll be able to adjust
the fans rpm to what you think is needed and wanted.

I've read about a guy who disconnected his fan in the q2 altogether,
although i won't recommend it =)

I've inspected the case, and... one COULD maybe fit a 12cm thin fan in the
top of the case and running it on slow voltage, it would move more air
than that itsy bitsy original fan but be much more quiet.

If i'm going to keep my q2 i'll probably mod it to quitness and fix
pictures and facts instead of rants and guesses
(i'm obsessed... i'm running watercoold i386 (>25db) ;)

Take care
//lasse

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jamie Heilman wrote:

> > 6) Has anybody experiences with making the Qube more
> > quite? At the moment mine is very loud.
>
> I cut away the fan guard on my qube2 (its just stamped out of the
> case) to open up the air flow a bit and hopefully lower the resonant
> frequency.  Did it work?  I have no idea, too much other noisy shit in
> the same room. <g>  In theory it should though, so I suppose its
> something to think about if you figure out the noise is the fan's
> fault.
>
>

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