I recently dug out my PS2 fat as I've had a bit more time for gaming lately. I never seemed to notice this when I was younger, but that fan is obnoxiously loud haha. I like to tinker and don't mind modding just about anything. So I did some searching and found a tutorial by William Quade who did a Noctua fan mod to his PS2. For those who don't know, Noctua is a fan company that is known to make high quality and very quiet fans. Anyway, William's mod was nice but a bit rough for me. He had to hack up the back panel of his PS2 because the Noctua fan is 25mm thick and the OE fan is only 15mm. This makes the fan stick out of the case a little bit.
I'm a mechanical engineer and have a 3d printer at home that I use for a number of things. So I decided to print a whole new back panel for my mod. This took a while to model up and a few times printing it to get it to fit just right, but I am very happy with the final version. I think it has a nice polished look with no hot glue!
I also made up an electrical connector that plugs the new fan right into the PS2 instead of having to do any cutting or soldering.
What do you guys think?
I'm a mechanical engineer and have a 3d printer at home that I use for a number of things. So I decided to print a whole new back panel for my mod. This took a while to model up and a few times printing it to get it to fit just right, but I am very happy with the final version. I think it has a nice polished look with no hot glue!
I also made up an electrical connector that plugs the new fan right into the PS2 instead of having to do any cutting or soldering.
What do you guys think?