Keeping your PC case off the carpet

[Taz]

My mid-tower case, an NZXT S340, has four largish rubber feet on the underside. These provide just a tiny bit of clearance when the case is placed in my carpeted study.

However, as the PSU is mounted fan side down, I was a bit nervous about this lack of clearance. I then searched for solutions and some were quite expensive, whilst others were inelegant. All I needed to do was provide a hard platform for the PC case so that I got the maximum clearance for air circulation to the bottom of the case.

I found the perfect solution for my situation: a length of laminate flooring that I had lying around in the shed. I cut it to 600mm in length and sanded down the cut edges. The width was already 200mm, which is exactly the width of my case.

This allows me to place the case on top of the length of laminate flooring and then use that to slide it under my desk - no more heaving the case around under my desk. It looks good and provides good clearance for the underside of the case. Zero cost too.

[smargh]

I use a granite cutting board & sorbothane acoustic isolation feet.

[GoNz0]

I still use 2 floor tiles wrapped in carpet underlay that has an offcut of carpet the same as the rest of the house wrapped around that to make a rather nice base that also isolates any vibration from going into the wooden floor.

It was a ghetto fix at the time to stop noise years ago before I moved from 80mm fans in a coolermaster cosmos case.


Not suggesting for a minute you use floor tiles but I went rifling through the garage to find something to act as a base and found those, any old chipboard cut to size would be better.

[Jonj1611]

I used 2 bits of wood from B & Q

[kalniel]

I use the side of a cardboard box

[Ttaskmaster]

I use a desk... Means I don't have to bend down for the power button and risk knackering something!

[Jonj1611]

I have a BeQuiet err quiet case and even then I can hear that annoying fan sound at ear level. Have tried the desk so many times, now its on the floor. However further to my previous post that was with my old case, the new one has its own legs which lift it slightly and a tunnel thing at the bottom meaning the fan will never be near the carpet

[flearider]

nope on the carpet .. but I do have mesh on the 2 360's near the floor .. so no dust .. but they just run the gpu ..
the 480 for cpu is in the top of the case 78cm from the floor and yes it's quiet

[Gerrard]

I have a bit offcut shelf on top of 6 bricks.

[Dashers]

I've got a plank of wood, maybe an off-cut from a shelf or something. And I've added extra rubber feet to provide a bit more clearance.

[StormZero]

I had similar concers. Using two big bathroom wall tiles from some we had leftover from a recent new bathroom. Fits perfect and does the trick well

[MrJim]

I've just bought one of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It's designed as a monitor stand, but it works perfectly as a stand to raise my PC off of the carpet. My PC case - a Silverstone FT-02 - has three 180mm fans sucking air from the bottom of the case, so if it's resting just on carpet, it tends to act like a vacuum cleaner and suck up large quantities of dust!

[Boon72]

I've been thinking about this, never even thought about putting on something

[rborge]

If you're willing to spend some cash, consider a trolley like the 3M Adjustable CPU Stand.

[Pob255]

back when I had to deal with carpet I had mine on a bit of kitchen counter off cut, lifts it a good 25mm off the carpet, also works for hard floors although less fluff from hard floors

[BradIOM]

I bought a plank of wood from B&Q & cut it to size