Creality V4.2.7 Upgrade Mute Silent Mainboard for Ender 3 Customized Silent Board, Ender 3 Silent Mother Board

replaced an older board

Bought 2 ender 3s and setup my first printer, used it for 2 months while I stockpiled some upgrades for the other while I learned about 3d printing. I thought the sounds it made were super cool and didnt bother me, but the Motors whining bothered my wife. Happy wife happy life, ordered a silent board too. I put together printer #2 (at setup I added dual z kit, direct feed extruder kit, new leveling springs and wheels/knobs, as well as this silent board) and with all my upgrades installed it fired it up and did a quick test print, basically sounded idle, just like when you arent printing, but the fans are on. This board blew my mind... Well maybe my first machine was just noisier anyway? Nope put a silent board in that one too, super quiet. Now that my printers are quieter, i realized I didnt really like the motor whine after all. My wife? Happy they dont make as much noise now, she didnt even freak out when she saw the second printer (which she didnt know I had for a month lol) Also firmware flash is a snap for 32 bit boards, ignore the complex videos, just drop the binary file from creality website (pick the right one, mine was just the basic cuz no auto level kit) put the binary file on a BLANK SD card, with printer off, insert SD card, power printer on, wait a minute for the blank screen to pass while it updates. Once it boots up, check you printer firmware in the menu and confirm its what you were expecting. Came preloaded with ender pro firmware from like 2020. Side notes, direct drive kit is cool, I bought it for tpu, nothing special. Dual z kit is cool, critical if adding direct feed extruder, helpful at keeping z from slouching on a bowden, but you dont need it. The knobs and spring kit for bed leveling is my favorite upgrade on the cheap, holds great, I rarely have to re-level, with stock springs I had to re-level pretty much every print. Octoprint/octopi brings it all together so so sweetly, i have raspberry pi on hand most of the time, so I just set it up on a 3b+ as soon as I discovered octoprint. Been running fine, threw another instance of octoprint on a pi400 for the second printer. *If you dont have octoprint setup, that is Upgrade #1, the one upgrade to rule them all. So after octoprint, this silent board is my favorite upgrade, my stock boards were 4.2.2s so no print quality improvement, but the silence is worth gold, quieter fans installed is inevitable now. Worst part about this board, uninstalling the stock board. Creality Hot glued the plugs closed, i hear they recently started doing this, maybe they want to void a warranty, but Im the kinda guy that if I buy it and it works, its mine, i fix my own stuff, I was never going to send this machine back, just replace bad parts if theres ever a failure. You do risk breaking something, however I was able to extract 2x4.2.2 boards without damaging them, and even still, you can just use your new board if you damage the stock one, install is pretty easy without glue everywhere, have some tweezers handy to hold wires into terminals while you tighten them in.

I upgraded my ender3 with this board and the results were great. The noise from my printer has lowered quite a bit. the product arrived in good condition and was well packed. The customer service was great as they responded to an email I sent within the day. I would recommend this product for upgrading an ender3.

Ive purchased 2 of these boards, one from this seller and the same board from another. When I first installed it it was completely quiet just like my other motherboard upgrade. But now that Ive had this board from this seller for about 2 months its noticeably louder. For comparison, my other Ender 3 with the motherboard upgrade from another seller has been in use for 6 months and its as quiet as it was day 1 of the upgrade.. Ive run both printers at the same time printing the same file and this board is CLEARLY louder and whiner. Its noise level now is halfway between the stock board and upgraded motherboard(from another seller). ANOTHER ISSUE is when I first installed this board, the LCD screen on my Ender 3 wouldnt work. I had to unplug the screen and reset the printer 3 times before it began working properly. Do yourself a favor and just purchase from another seller.

Very good as expected

My ender 3 had an E1 error that bricjed the 4.2.2 board. 50 bucks and the thing is so much better im mad i waited.

Despite claims by Creality, mine arrived with no bootloader installed. Arduino required to flash bootloader. Mine had no bootloader installed, and secondarily went into a boot-loop after 5-10 minutes of being powered up. I have since purchased another from a different vendor. It also had no bootloader installed but otherwise worked fine. Regarding the boot loop, I think I just got a random bad board when I purchased from Amazon. Probably a tiny problem that slipped past QC since it would only happen when the board got warmed up. No ones fault, just the way things go occasionally. Once I used a Arduino board to load a bootloader, I was able to flash firmware updates by USB, verify thermal runaway protection, use Octoprint, etc. For use on my Ender-5.

My board did not come with 1.1.8 installed but instead 1.0.1, will be returning.

i bought this board to upgrade my ender 3 pro. it hooks up the exact same way as the stock ender 3 board and has the port for a ABL probe. what took me by surprise is how quiet it really is. sure it says silent board in the title but i figured how quiet could it really make the printer? well, very quiet!

After install and flashing the firmware (this is not plug and play for ender 3 if you have bed levelling) I am experiencing missed steps on the y axis and consistent failed prints. I cannot recommend this motherboard as a result.