Has anyone experienced vibration in the lian li cases?

[Eddie3dfx]

I'm curious how you guys reduce vibration, especially in regards to mounted pumps and radiators.
My v2000 shakes like a baby with a standard setup and with my new parts mounted, I'm a bit worried because I have a radiator and pump mounted to the middle panel.

Essentially I have radiator mounted to the top with rubber washers in between the screws. Same goes with the pump. I'm using rubber O-Rings between the eheim mount and the little metal mount I made.
I'm just test fitting at the moment, so don't mind the finish on the mount (you get the idea))

Do you think this setup will give me vibration issues or should I be fine?

[Waterlogged]

I don't have a LiLi but I do have a fair bit of anti-vibe experience. For the best chance at reducing the vibes, you need to put grommets in the holes you drilled. Actual A-V grommets are best but regular wire grommets should help. Go to Mcmaster for the A-V grommets, the size highlighted should cover most applications. It's the grommet on the right in the pic below.

Lets use your pump mount for an example, the screw head touches the hard plastic and the nut touches the mount, your gonna have a rattle...if the ends of those screw touch that divider, your gonna have another rattle. You'll likely have them even if they don't touch due to the way the mount appears to be attached. The grommets work by isolating any metal to metal/ metal to plastic contact and is why they need to be in the holes. Another way to kill rattles is to use that thin sound absorption material almost every store sells, it's not really as useful for actual "sound absorption" as much as it is for "rattle prevention". Fill the case with it and every little annoying rattle pretty much disappears.

[Eddie3dfx]

Makes perfect sense.

This should not be a problem for the pump mount, because I can just expand the holes a bit and use the grommets in between.
The top radiator might be more difficult, because I don't want to see the top piece of the grommet on the divider.

What I could do is put a grommet in those metal brackets and then use a minute piece of insulation like you suggested, under the bolt head, which is visible from the top.

Thanks for the advice.

[barfastic]

i dont know if this might help, but my li li vibrates on the drive bay column... could be because i ahve 3 optical drives and 8 hard drives attached... but yeah... the only way i can make it go away is if i touch it with my finger, with a little force, and then remove my finger slowly. goes away for about 2-3 hours but then comes back...

[warriorpoet]

To properly softmount you must decouple your mounting bolts from at least two different directions. In other words, if both the source of vibration (ex. pump) and its resonating medium (ex. top case panel) aren't isolated from potential vibration you have not decoupled anything. When using bolts I generally used a soft silicon washer on both the head side and the shaft side. On the other hand, I generally try to stick to double isolating zip-ties instead of bolts, unless absolutely necessary. Thin plastic doesn't transmit vibration as well as a solid hunk o' metal

In your case, you'll want to use some acoustic damping material (like Paxmate) on all of the extended surfaces (like side panels, top, bottom panels, etc.) because Al has more of a tendency to amplify vibration into audible frequencies than steel.

[jcool]

Noise absorbtion mats all the way. They add weight to the case, thereby eliminating the tendency to vibrate. Also don't hardmount your pump like that, I mount them standing not hanging on 2-3 layers of noise dampening mats as well.

Pretty ghetto (and utterly useless in my phase rig) but you get the point:

[Eddie3dfx]

Love the alphacool hd block and attached reservoir. The eheim attached reservoirs are by far the fastest bleeders around. The problem is, space is a huge concern. I'll post a few more pics in a sec.

[Eddie3dfx]

I have to find places to mount 3 eheim pumps (which I did) and 2 D5 pumps (I may have to just ditch 1 of them, because I'm running out of room)

The first one, located here near the front, will have a reservoir attached directly to the eheim. (It should make filling it easier) (There is a blue yates behind the front bix, but I need to find a nice cover/filter to cover the ugly fins)
The cutout is for an mcr320, which directly buts right into the eheim. You can fit a lot of sh## down there.


The second one is in the spot on top which I showed earlier.

The third is toward the rear next to the mcr320.

I had to create a custom mount for clearance



If you see it from the back, the front bix 120 feeds the tubing under the 220 radiator directly into the rear eheim.

[jcool]

Love the alphacool hd block and attached reservoir. The eheim attached reservoirs are by far the fastest bleeders around. The problem is, space is a huge concern. I'll post a few more pics in a sec.

Thanks, but it's both made by Watercool Germany
HDD box is a Silentstar 2,0 and the res is an AB-K maxi. Excuse the fugly top, had to steal my plexi one for a customer because I ran out of stock once

[Sadasius]

I just use a hammer and keep at it until the vibrations stop! The eventually do, sometimes you have to hit it pretty hard though.