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What case fans have you got?
Never really got into installing case fans, but I want my CPU and system temperatures to drop slightly, so I am looking for case fans that are good and most of all silent. What do you reccomend? Other question is how do I measure a fan's dimension is it diagonally across? I got a loud case fan here, that I am trying to work out it's dimension so that I get the right size for the new fans!  |
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On my main rig:
3 x standard 120mm fans that came with Antec 900 case, all on low setting 200mm standard fan with Antec 900 case on max setting Noctua 120mm 1200rpm fan mounted on side panel blowing at graphics card, on full. Noctua make excellnt fans and Pabst are good as well. For budget consider YS-Tech. Quote:
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 i have the an antec 120mm on medium that came with my case and an akasa ultra quiet 120mm running at 1500rpm that i picked up for £10 at PCworld  I always take life with a grain of salt, ... a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila  I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out  One more step to enlightenment ... but which way ?   |
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and will it say Around for ever!!!? heck that is a lot of fans there what kind of temperatures are you getting? |
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kinda yeah, but to get the same one from OCUK would have cost me £15, even buying the cheapest they do would cost nearly £10 by the time you've added postage and i wasn't getting anything else so it was just as easy to pick one up as i was passing
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Temps? See pic below.
 And that's with a twin core CPU at 100% It's also very quiet. I could reduce the noise a little by throttling back on the 200mm fan and the Noctua fan but it really is quiet and I like those temps  And here's the Noctua fan I added to the Antec 900 case: Noctua 1200 fan I have another one on my Noctua CPU cooler, which means it has one blowing and one exhausting, but that cooler is on my second machine. The machine I took this pic from is the one specced in my signature and has a Zalman cooler. |
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one word mate WOW
how the heck did you get it that low and quiet too? magic 105.4 fm me thinks! |
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p.s that fan you linked to me looks like...............CHOCOLATE lol
I better be careful the mrs dont end up eating it |
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I always get Akasa Amber series fans - the 120mm ones run at 1400rpm at only 18Db. I have checked them against more expensive ones but have not found anything that shifts the same amount of air at that noise level. £7 each for the 120mm is a good price too.
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