Modding a Network Switch

[Pitch]

Yeah.. I got there finally

http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/c.../view/2036/30/

Thanks Rondog!

[Samuknow]

Nice. My HP switch is rather loud. I will give this a go...

Thanks Rondog.

[Rondog]

No worries Samuknow, let me know how it goes. Thanks Pitch. I appreciate it mate,

Not too shabby if I do say so myself. Contemplating giving it a paint job, but I have other things on my plate at this point in time.

[Gizmo]

Nifty article, Rondog!

[Favu]

Nice mod rondog - t'is useful!

[captaincurran]

it's a nice mod, i've long since hung up my old modded hub, and since looking at yours i'm tempted to mod my wireless router... some how...

[robbie]

Not bad at all.
One question, why not just slow down the 40's?

[Rondog]

Originally Posted by robbie

Not bad at all.
One question, why not just slow down the 40's?

Because thats too simple! :P

Nah, the bearings in the fans we pretty damaged by the noise it was making.

[weldzilla]

you know I think it is a good mod. Good thinking, but, once you scratched it up you needed to to go ahead and sand ,prime and paint.
Then it will be completed. As I say I like it. Now finish it out.

WZ

[raphael2040]

Very nice mod, Mr Rondog.

Very useful, too.

[Rondog]

Originally Posted by weldzilla

you know I think it is a good mod. Good thinking, but, once you scratched it up you needed to to go ahead and sand ,prime and paint.
Then it will be completed. As I say I like it. Now finish it out.

WZ

Sounds like a part 2 to me. I'll get on it on my next day off.

Ladies and gentlemen, lend me your ears, what colour should I paint it?

[Samuknow]

Always fond of blues...

Maybe a nice two tone....

Or perhaps one of the textured finishes...

[Áedán]

Originally Posted by Rondog

So I plug in the 1016 and, the two 40mm cooling fans are the whiniest most high pitched screeching noise creators on the Earth.

May I introduce you to Cisco rackmount switches (or Sun Opteron servers). They are the whiniest, screechiest annoying bits of kit there are (probably). Being in a roomfull of such kit has been known to send people over the edge.

[weldzilla]

Thats the spirit!! Rondog you will just have to decide what color will go with everything else or what you can live with!!

WZ

[Daniel ~]

Very nicely done. When we over look things, they are bound to be slow...":O}

[captinhector]

Originally Posted by Áedán

May I introduce you to Cisco rackmount switches (or Sun Opteron servers). They are the whiniest, screechiest annoying bits of kit there are (probably). Being in a roomfull of such kit has been known to send people over the edge.

I have 2 of thoes' monsters in my lab, noisy when the bearings are good, just wait until one goes out. Sounds like nails on a chalkboard x10. Easiest way to fix that is a slower/quieter one from tiger or newegg.

[cloasters]

The only use I've put a 40mm to is added cooling for a GPU. Was a loong time ago, but the Vidcard appreciated it! It was a high quality fan, made little noise.

[Toro]

Originally Posted by Rondog

Ladies and gentlemen, lend me your ears, what colour should I paint it?

duno about colour, but I think a single colour matt and gloss (1 painted gloss, other half matt) with a nifty design