Case fans, what ones you got?

[psd99]

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!

 

[floppybootstomp]

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.

Other question is how do I measure a fan's dimension is it diagonally across?

A fan is round...

 

[Me__2001]

A fan is round...

lol i was thinking that

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

 

[psd99]

A fan is round...

Is it round?
and will it say Around for ever!!!?


heck that is a lot of fans there
what kind of temperatures are you getting?

 

[psd99]

lol i was thinking that

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

isnt that expensive?

 

[Me__2001]

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

 

[floppybootstomp]

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.

 

[psd99]

one word mate WOW

how the heck did you get it that low and quiet too?

magic 105.4 fm me thinks!

 

[psd99]

p.s that fan you linked to me looks like...............CHOCOLATE lol
I better be careful the mrs dont end up eating it

 

[1nteger]

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.

 

[Me__2001]

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.

thats the one i have, can barely hear my system when i turn the fans down to their lowest setting

 

[psd99]

question:

I got one fan on the back

one on the front

The front one blows into the system the back one blows out of the system
does that sound right?

 

[floppybootstomp]

question:

I got one fan on the back

one on the front

The front one blows into the system the back one blows out of the system
does that sound right?

That sounds right.

Stand easy Private.....

 

[psd99]

cheers pal

well this system is still not 100% complete it's taken bloody 2 full months
today I am adding the final peices!!!!

 

[Abarbarian]

Are you gona post some pics of ths 9th wonder of the world .

 

[psd99]

Are you gona post some pics of ths 9th wonder of the world .

i think i already did on here somewhere

i dont think she looks that good
the specs are good enough not to make windows hang
i can watch tv, listen to music, surf wed, even burn dvds without it hanging!
im watching cpu temp like a hawk and looking to add another 500gb to take it to 1.5tb overall.

she is very silent though!!

 

[psd99]

I got one fan installed it looks like it's knocked off 5-7 C off of my CPU temp.I opted for the cheap option that was suggested in this thread I got Akasa Amber series fans .Thanks for your help everyone.


Atm I only connected up one that blows cold air outwards from back in the case
but I do have another one on the front which I didn't connect up YET

no point taking picures here guys she don't look so good on the inside!

 

[Abarbarian]

Are you sure it isn't just the winter weather thats lowering your temps .

 

[psd99]

well thats a possibilty

im going to try make the other fan work thats on the front