Which 120mm fan?

[Ommid]

what about the Noctua NF-P12. Awesome.

too dear for moi as i need like 5

[acrobat]

Just realised mine is the Yate Loon Slow (not medium). And it's only 1350RPM. It's great for the heatsink because these thermalright ultra 120 extreme does most of the work by itself, so the low speed fan just helps keep the air moving across it. It would make a great case fan too.

But like I said, if I overclocked I would probably need something a bit more. The medium is 1600 which is a bit more sensible, and the fast one is 2200rpm which is great, although I would want to limit that a bit with a fan controller.

[Ommid]

well i control the rpm with my bios but mine are the low ones, and i want to oc too.

[ackrite26]

can anyone point me to some of those rubber dampener things? Cheap as possible as some are really extortionately expensive like 3 quid a set :O

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both sets do two fans

[Dr Cool]

WEll I like the yates, need to see how loud they are as atm all i can hear is the stock intel fan, can anyone point me to some of those rubber dampener things? Cheap as possible as some are really extortionately expensive like 3 quid a set :O

Well how about nexus fans.... they are made by the same company as yate loons and are exactly the same in build except for the fact that the nexus versions are undervolted therefore quieter.... they also come with ruber mounts and can be found [here]

[this_is_gav]

Just realised mine is the Yate Loon Slow (not medium). And it's only 1350RPM. It's great for the heatsink because these thermalright ultra 120 extreme does most of the work by itself, so the low speed fan just helps keep the air moving across it. It would make a great case fan too.

Ironically, a Scythe heatsink (Ninja 2 or Infinity) would likely yield better results at that sort of speed. The TRUE comes into its own with fans that push a little more air. The Scythe heatsinks are a little more airy.

[Ommid]

I have closed corner on my fans though, not open corner

[RyanP13]

I use 3 of the Nexus ones:



In my Akasa Eclipse case with a Scythe Ninja rev. B.

Reasonably quiet - not silent but a massive improvement on the Akasa fans i had in there before.

A good price per performance ratio as well.

[RyanP13]

Err i posted a link to them but it does not appear to have shown up.

[Fraz]

Err i posted a link to them but it does not appear to have shown up.

It's because the link gets converted to the name of the page. It's quite annoying.

You can use the url tags to specify the text that the link gets printed as:

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remove the dots in "u.r.l."

[acrobat]

well i control the rpm with my bios but mine are the low ones, and i want to oc too.

How important is noise? I am nuts about noise so everything in my PC is close to silent, but it's at the expense of temperature a bit. I think if you wanted your PC to be quiet as possible, you might get away with a 1600rpm fan, even for overclocking. If you don't mind about the noise though, then go for the faster ones but they will be a bit noisier. I could do a bit of an overclock with mine, but if you want to do a big overclock, I would just get a faster fan. With a good heatsink and good case cooling though, a good 1600rpm might be enough though.

A fan controller is worth considering too. Not sure about your motherboard, but my bios doesn't have all that much customisation of the fan speeds. I think it can do slow, full speed, and there are settings that make the fan go faster and slower depending on the temperature, but I don't like that because I can hear the changes in speed which bugs me. I prefer just a constant speed and then your ears get used to it and block it out. So with a fan controller you could get something around 2000rpm or more, and then use the controlled to find a sweet spot in the noise levels, and then just leave it running at that speed.

Ironically, a Scythe heatsink (Ninja 2 or Infinity) would likely yield better results at that sort of speed. The TRUE comes into its own with fans that push a little more air. The Scythe heatsinks are a little more airy.

That's true. I actually only bought this fan as a test. I had such bad temperature problems before, I just assumed that I would need a 1600rpm or more fan, but I got this slower yate loon cause it was just a fiver or so. Turns out my temps are pretty damn good with it and yet I can't hear it at all

If/when I upgrade to a quad core though, I would probably get a 1600rpm fan instead. Nothing that I play really stresses my PC at the at the moment though so, I've no need to tinker.

[dodgybob]

Another vote for nexus fans. I had a couple in my slk3000b and moving to a P182 with the tri-cool fans on low they are much more obtrusive then the nexus fans were. I believe the nexus fans are yate loons which are moded to spin at 1,000 rpm from a standard 12v source.

I'm going to get three to replace the fans in this p182 and possibly experiment with them at 7v.

[RyanP13]

The only problem with the Nexus fans on slowest speed is that they are connected to my Akasa fan controller.

Anything around 600RPM (the fans slowest speed) sets of the alarm in the controller.

This kept happening for ages at start up (when the fans are slowest) and i thought it was my BIOS error codes LOL.

Was relieved to find out it wasn't.