Creality 3D Ender 3 Upgrade Motherboard V1.1.5 Silent Mainboard Control Board with TMC2208 Driver for Ender 3,Ender 3 Pro,Ender 5

So silent! What a big difference in making the the system quieter. After watching a video on how to replace, taking pictures to make sure things were right, and had everything buttoned up. Straight forward. I feel better that it has thermal protection.Originally gave it 5 stars - but the board comes with a flaw. Marlin needs a 1.1xbugfix patch or the extruder will stop on most prints anywhere from 30-45% completion. You have to flash the firmware. Ugh. Ender 3 Pro.

This board makes your stepper motors nearly inaudible! They also don't get as hot!I installed this on my Ender 5 and it was super easy. It is so silent I can sleep while it's printing! However, the extruder fan is very noticeable now that the motors are quiet. I will probably end up putting even more money into this printer now to make the fan quieter haha.I purchased this for my Ender 5. The board comes configured for the Ender 3 pro, so I needed to flash a new firmware to it. I tried flashing the .hex file that creality provides, using Ultimaker Cura, but there aren't settings in Cura to tell it which COM port to use to connect to the printer and it said connection failed every different time I tried (I tried a lot of times and got very frustrated). To make things worse, I could not find drivers that Windows would actually install to make the USB connection show up as a COM port. I finally just tried a USB port in the back of the computer and then the printer showed up as COM port. I still couldn't get Cura to upload the .hex firmware to the board, so I followed YouTuber TeachingTech's instructions on how to install Marlin 1.1.9 with his configuration files. That finally worked, and the Marlin 1.1.9 has a lot of good features, so it's probably better than the Marlin 1.1.6 that Creality's .hex file is based on anyway.Take note: The second fan on the extruder is linked to the fan that cools the board. It might be better to plug that fan directly to the power supply's output so that your board is always getting airflow! If you use that fan but you're doing large prints, the board's cooling fan will be off for the whole first and second layers. That won't be great for the board long term.

I keep my printer in the room next to my bedroom. When running overnight prints I could hear the printer making all kinds of racket. It would on occasion wake me. The Silent board does exactly what it's supposed to. The installation was a bit of a hassle on my Ender 3 Pro, since the printer has to be turned on it's side, or upside down to get the board out and some of the wires are difficult to remove. Part of the removal involves taking a copious amount of hot melt glue off the plugs. Creality wants to make sure the plugs stay inserted and I assure you, they do. I was very careful and even used a hot air gun to soften the glue. This helped a lot. When I first looked at the old board it was a little intimidating. I couldn't see all the mounting screws. It also looks like a lot of wires and plugs to remember. Fortunately all the plugs are labeled. I managed to get everything out and back in again and finally got the board installed again. The new board works great! I later discovered, thanks in part to some fellow Amazon reviewers, that there is a bug in the firmware, version 1.1.8 that can cause some prints to stop at about 35% completion. This required flashing the board. I don't know if having to learn how to flash was good for me or not, but flash it, I did. Again, thanks to fellow Amazon reviewers, I got the tips I needed to allow me to make it happen. A few words of advice on flashing this board: It already has a built in bootloader, so plugging the printer directly into a computer via a serial port is all that's needed as far as flashing hardware. I went to TH3D and downloaded their firmware package and watched a video on youtube that showed me exactly what and how to do it. The TH3D flash is based on a Marlin flash, but tweaked a bit, and it includes all the settings needed for the Ender 3. With this in hand it's possible to flash the board in 10 minutes or so. It's not Creality's fault the bug exists. The bug is in the Marlin version, so I didn't knock off a star. After all I did learn how to flash my board and this paid off very handily when I updated to ABL.I really like using my printer now, and running it all night means only a whisper from the fans. I can live with this. Perhaps I will eventually replace the fans with quieter ones, but for now it's great.

Purchased my Ender 3 and out of the box it was printing amazing pieces. The only thing I didnt care for was the stepper motor noise. After searching people said to by dampeners, boards for each stepper motor and all kind of suggestions but this is literately the only thing you need to make the motors silent. Install was super easy, take pictures of every connection when you unplug it to make sure its 100% right. Only noise now is the fan which for $10 I can replace. I printed several 7+ hour items and no extrude stoppage like others have posted. I have only had it installed 2 days at the time of the review but so far its definitely worth every penny.

If you want to make your Ender (3 Pro out of the box, and 3 or 5 with a re-flash of firmware) SILENT (other than the fans, of course) - buy this updated board. Installation is very straight forward - just unplug a cable from your present board, and plug into the exact same spot on this replacement board. The only annoying part I ran into was the amount of hot glue that was used on the stock board to keep the connections in place -- took a little bit of work to get all the cables unplugged because of it.

I could not believe the difference in volume of the stepper motors after installing this board. As a note, I did update the board to run Marlin 2.0.x firmware instead of the stock Creality Firmware. This board removed a required step as it already has a bootloader installed. Be sure to use the TMC2208_STANDALONE drivers for the X,Y,Z, & Extruder motors when setting up the Marlin Config to be able to take advantage of the new board.