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The whole reason you would get such a cooler is for the big fan (you wouldn't get an after market cooler with a fan smaller than 80mm). Big fans last longer and are quieter throughout their life (along with the added CFM). That 50mm fan is a deal breaker for me
Apart from the new fan, dont see any difference to the Freezer
has the little mini fan thing proved useful?
Surely the whole reason you'd get such a cooler is to cool your CPU?! if this one offers demonstrably superior cooling to other similar models, and that is acheived by using a small fan to stimulate airflow around the CPU socket and thus help cool the chopset and motherboard as well, I don't see why it would be such a deal breaker. if it's loud and whiny then sure, it'd be a problem, but we won't know that until there's a review: and even then if it's a good cooler some people will be willing to forgoe silence in favour of a cooler CPU / higher overclock. Large HSFs aren't just aimed at the quiet crowd, you know...Originally Posted by semo
You haven't had much experience with small fans have you? They'll probably be fine in reviews but they get noisy quickly. There's a very good reason why OEMs and even stock coolers are using less and less dinky small fans, i.e. they're ANNOYING!Surely the whole reason you'd get such a cooler is to cool your CPU?! if this one offers demonstrably superior cooling to other similar models, and that is acheived by using a small fan to stimulate airflow around the CPU socket and thus help cool the chopset and motherboard as well, I don't see why it would be such a deal breaker. if it's loud and whiny then sure, it'd be a problem, but we won't know that until there's a review: and even then if it's a good cooler some people will be willing to forgoe silence in favour of a cooler CPU / higher overclock. Large HSFs aren't just aimed at the quiet crowd, you know...
Considering lots of motherboards have VRM components and chipset heatsinks designed to be cooled by stock downdraft heatsinks, I think this is a good idea as these components often end up with very little cooling in cases with not-so-great airflow. There's nothing inherently wrong with small fans, just lots of them are rubbish. There is a small (80mm or possibly less) on the CPU cooler on an older Northwood Celeron system I've been using for testing stuff lately - the system has had plenty of use and despite the fan running at a high RPM you can't hear it unless you listen for it. And this is in a case with no case fans, just HDD and a 120mm PSU fan.
Spin a small fan at 1rpm, see how much noise it makes.
Your argument makes no sense.
Small fans have just gained a bad reputation because of the rubbish quality high-speed fans used on some chipset heatsinks. As I said, there's nothing inherently bad with small fans. You may have had 'much experience' with chipset fans, but I've come across plenty of small fans in plenty of applications and TBH the vast majority are good.
Sure it wouldn't make much noise at 1rpm but you wouldn't run it at 1 rpm would you. My point is that from experience, small fans break down much quicker than bigger ones. When new, they're OK but after a while they start making annoying noises. As was mentioned by others already, their bad reputation precedes them. The only way to find out if a small fan is of a good quality (as a consumer) is to buy it and see after a year or 2. I'm not going to be experimenting considering the dozens of Nvidia 7300 cards I've been ripping out at work due to worn out or dead fans.
My argument is that usually, small fans are of very poor quality in consumer hardware (one of the side effects is the louder noise they produce as they get older). Which part doesn't make sense?
Meh, if you got it and didn't like the fan two years down the line you could unplug it. Simples.
the reason for the move to bigger fans has nothing to do with quality, it's simply because bigger fans move more air at lower RPMs
Which also means less noise. Also the pitch of the noise is different and IMO bigger fans make a much less annoying whine
indeed semo. In my opinion, the bigger the better when it comes to fans.
Their new i30 is great - would be interesting to see how this compares, if this is flagship it should be even better??
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