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    Quiet 120mm Red LED fans.

    Anyone know the best, quiet (below 30db, preferably around 21db) red LED fans. I'm willing to not have any LED's if the actual fan is red or black. But i'd prefer red LED ones.

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    I just got a coolermaster red led fan

    http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=147113

    this one..

    Its quieter than the akasa amber it replaced

    around 20db

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    Yeah i was looking at those ones. I'll probably get them, now they have been recommended.

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    yup, CM 120mm LEDs are good vfm & pretty quiet esp. if undervolted.

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    Led fans probably aren't going to be designed with quietness in mind, the clear brittle plastic tends to make a higher pitched vibration. You may as well just get any led fan and undervolt it
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    Quote Originally Posted by GrahamGarside View Post
    Led fans probably aren't going to be designed with quietness in mind, the clear brittle plastic tends to make a higher pitched vibration. You may as well just get any led fan and undervolt it
    I've read about the clear plastic fans not being as quite as the black ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrahamGarside View Post
    Led fans probably aren't going to be designed with quietness in mind, the clear brittle plastic tends to make a higher pitched vibration. You may as well just get any led fan and undervolt it
    This is why i'm asking if anyone knows of a quiet one.
    I'm not too bothered about actual silence, but i just don't want it to sound like a jet engine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DecomposingStar View Post
    This is why i'm asking if anyone knows of a quiet one.
    I'm not too bothered about actual silence, but i just don't want it to sound like a jet engine.
    I'm into silence but in you're case (I've tried a Coolermaster Blue LED 120mm) the Coolermaster recommended above should be ok.

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    What size are you after?

    This 120mm spins at 1200rpm on stock voltage, I wouldn't believe that 22db rating for a second but brought down to 5V and probably about 500-600rpm it will be quiet

    http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=147113
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    My Antec 900 case has its stock fans in it. I don't consider it silent, but it's quiet enough for me.

    I'm not into undervolting, as i'm more interested in airflow than in silence, so those CM fans should be alright, and i guess at a similar level of noise to my current stock fans.

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    The red Antec 120's I've got in my worsktation are virtually silent at 5v, but not the queitest at 12v if I remember correctly (though they've been at 5v for years now, so I can't entirely remember!).

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrahamGarside View Post
    What size are you after?

    This 120mm spins at 1200rpm on stock voltage, I wouldn't believe that 22db rating for a second but brought down to 5V and probably about 500-600rpm it will be quiet
    It is very quiet..as much as an akasa amber as I said before..

    trust me..I have one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by staffsMike View Post
    It is very quiet..as much as an akasa amber as I said before..

    trust me..I have one.
    Akasa Ambers aren't quiet

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    have you thought about sticking some red led's behind a standard black fan just for something a little bit crazy, it could be crap, i don't know it might well work, it is about time people started moving away from blue, i am trying to. At the moment my case fades from red at the bottom up to blue at the top, a nice effect that will be complete when i replace the blue fans in my psu to red and theme my desktop to black and red. I have a copy of windows x64 pro that i cannot theme because it is an eval copy(damn you microsoft you bastards and you the makers of style xp) awsome operating system, crappy support.

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    +1 on the red coolermasters, the Akasa red fans are also very good, a little noisier but shift more air. you can always reduce the voltage a little

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