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I think every gamer can relate to

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this ah much better and with no downside

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at all okay one downside but the other ways

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to silence your gaming PC or your console take a lot of time money and

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space that is unless you're willing to get a little creative here we go now

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guys this isn't a woodworking channel so we're going to keep keep the goals

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pretty straightforward number one is we want to keep this simple enough that

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anyone could build it with basic tools two I don't want to spend a ton of money

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and number three I want to significantly quiet down my computer without harming

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performance or resorting to Exotic measures like sticking in another room I

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just hope I bought enough wood units to complete both our project and the segue

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gx1000 right now by clicking the link in the

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description here's what I'm thinking rather than building a fully enclosed

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box I want to make two identical u-shaped shells that have these slots

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for air to move through them then I just slide them around our PC like so leaving

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a little Gap put a in on it and voila

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quieter computer to keep costs down our box is designed to be caught from a

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single 4x8 sheet of plywood or whatever other sheet good your budget allows for

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those of you watching in not America that's 1,220 mm by

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2,440 but I'm going to stick with freedom units for the rest of this video

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so that my Southern neighbors don't try to liberate the studio now most building

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supply stores will cut down large sheets for you for a nominal fee so we have

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them cut ours into quarters to make them easier to transport

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and to make them a little bit easier to work with safely if you guys want to

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build along at home by the way we're going to have our plans on the Forum which will be Link in the video

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description our first cuts are to remove a 1x 2T piece off of two of our quarter

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panels that's going to give us our sidewalls and the outside end pieces now

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it's worth noting guys we're in a fancy Shop but you don't need a fancy shop to

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do this a circular saw jigsa or even a Handa can get these Cuts done pretty

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cleanly just be patient measure twice cut once and all of that jazz with that

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said fancy tools do help sometimes and a nail gun like this one is a great way to

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attack wood pieces together before you secure them with screws you guys really

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did pick the scuffed piece of plywood on the face of the Earth hey um what's up

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with that wasn't me thanks Shaggy how

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good are you with a nail gun never used one before all

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right okay wherever your nails go you're you're going to want to make sure that

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you pre-drill some pilot holes before screwing the panels together with uh

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your LT screwdriver or more realistically with your drill since you

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were already holding that and that's the real tool for

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this man I put that nail right where I'd want to put my first screw yeah I you

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might say I screwed up Pro tip by the

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way guys if you're not sure what size bit to use to pre-drill it's actually

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listed on the side of the package with our third piece of plywood we're going

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to make our inside ends each of these is

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going to get a slot cut into it either to allow passive air flow through our

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box or for bonus credit to mount some fans we didn't Factor fans into our

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budget though so we're going to go with the slot and the easiest way to cut a

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slot is by drilling a starter hole then using a jigsaw if you don't have a jigsaw you

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can use a coping saw to do this by hand but it'll probably end up looking

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like hey I don't know where you're going

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you that was actually me but to be fair I voted to use the laser but Jordan said

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no those are too expensive that is a fair point we're trying to keep this

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affordable but if you don't mind spending a little bit more money a whole

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saw can be had for about 15 bucks for the drill that you're probably still

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holding and you can just put a few of those in there and man with fans that

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would be sick anyway

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rby thanks you can cut for a bit while I

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cut we're both cutting you're still rolling so I'll roll

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too now it's time for a quick test to see if we're onto something here our

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gaming rig is sitting at about 50 DB from this location and this

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is not a scientific test by any stretch but let's go ahead and take our second

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piece of P it and put it there 3 DB however on this

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side we drop more like 7 to 8 and that's before we add anything to deal with the

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reflections that are allowing sound to escape from our box not to mention the

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gaping hole on the top while we were at home desperate we came up with a plan

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for that too this stuff is really cool it's a fiberboard sound installation

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that's made out of recycled wood and before all you building material nerds

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go but lius I know it's only readily available in

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Canada but there are alternative State Side just look for a product called

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sound stop from Blue Ridge fiberboard big home improvement stores should carry

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it but if not they'll probably have some generic acoustic insulation soundboard

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that'll also work just be aware that both of those options are thinner than

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sonopan so they may be slightly less effective you can use power tools to cut

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this stuff but we find it works pretty well with just a nice sharp blade and a

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utility knife perfect slap her in and as

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for sizing our main concern

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uh-oh is getting a good friction

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fit nice sorry our main concern is

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making sure that any hard surface that sound could bounce off of is Co in this

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stuff 11 by 24 for our next

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one oh this is kind of short

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Jordan that's okay all right if you're

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good with it I'm good with

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it oh you put a hole in it to the cables

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that makes sense is it the world's most elegant solution yes a little bit no if

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they wanted that they could have tuned into DIY perk's version of

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this oh wait he doesn't have one meanwhile he's watching this going you

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know a bloody boy they I would have done

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it better you know

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whoa whoa whoa whoa hold on everyone quiet for a second quiet for a

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second damn that's a mic drop get it cuz

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it's a microphone I dropped it I probably shouldn't have technically but

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okay it's as quiet on the open side now

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as it was on the closed side before now okay I'm going to be about the same

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distance okay let's see this side holy crap we're down to about 40

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wow and it gets even better to prevent hot

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air from just recirculating inside of our box and encourage fresh air to be

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pulled in through the front of our baffle and then expelled from the back

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we're going to add these little foam strips you can use basically anything

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you have lying around as long as you can pack it in here at the front oh dang no

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I'm not going to I'm not even going to get a full two pieces in there okay

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front's all sealed up oh yeah I can feel

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the flow those fans could end up working a little bit harder

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wow damn I don't even need the decimal

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meter do you hear

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that damn wow we still have some work to do

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cleaning up the aesthetic we have some ideas involving a vinyl wrap and uh oh I

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don't know maybe putting the sides here on the edges like we had originally

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intended but let's do a quick after

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test that is a flipping huge reduction

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and we may be even getting to the point where we are below the noise floor of

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this room hold on I'm going to go around to this corner and then we'll pull the

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plug and see what the actual noise floor is in

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here we're below 35 all right kill the

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we're still marginally above the noise floor but not by much huge Improvement

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the question is how much does it impact thermals let's run it overnight and find

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out okay

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it looks kind of cool

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now I mean don't look that close no back up back

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up wait wait wait we're reacting to how it looks but it's on yep it's

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on now when I didn't note the scale of this graph I was like oh wow GPU

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temperature sure went up a lot no but once I saw

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it yeah this is great half a degree right like

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this is legitimately as quiet if not better than having your PC in a

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completely different room okay I had

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some idea that this was going to work you know way better than we thought it

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otherwise why would I greenl the project yeah but that's that's insane but this

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is flipping awesome and all told for

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somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 to $100 and what's cool about this is this

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principle can apply to all kinds of noise making things in your life in fact

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the real inspiration for this was when we had a Transformer that was on one of

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our sets a number of years ago and I was looking for a way to quiet it down and I

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was like oh well could we use like these principles huge difference I just wasn't

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sure if it would apply to a PC so effectively hey Sebastian check this out

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this is Sebastian from the creater Warehouse engineering team okay

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we I am the tallest Sebastian uh we we

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made a box and you might not be that impressed until I go like this

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ooh and it's gone it's gone that's

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pretty good he's not that impressed but he's kind of course The Thermals don't

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tell us the performance story let's have a look at our GPU clock speeds over time

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okay that looks pretty darn stable

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that's great 85 MHz variance now that we

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know performance isn't impacted it's time to bring our setup into our in

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progress DIY sound isolation chamber it's not perfect but it's a fair bit

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quieter than the workshop let's start by measuring the sound

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floor about 33 I guess you'll just kind

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of have to take my word for it one of the things that's in progress is our

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mount for our deciel meter one moment please all right Jordan want to turn the

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system back on yeah we're at 100% fan

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Perfect Dude 42 43 DB from a meter

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away that's a loud computer yeah

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man you'll even be able to hear this on the mic I bet ready one two

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3 okay

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everybody back down to barely above the noise floor see the thing is I'd love to

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just put the meter closer and to do a fudge test you totally can do that we

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could have done that but technically you're supposed to

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be like a meter away so in a nutshell

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it's way quieter and thanks for watching

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using the link in the video description looking back on the project if we did

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this over I'd like to make it a little on the smaller side and I think it would

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have been worth the investment to go with it even just like a pine project

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board compared to the plywood that we used then we could have put a little bit

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of like I don't know Danish oil on it or something it could have looked more like a piece of furniture and less like a

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piece of debrand skin who make good

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skins you know anyway if you guys enjoyed this video why not check out the

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one where I put a computer in a completely separate room in order to

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achieve much the same effect this is kind of better