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    SLK 800 A - Which fan?

    People,

    Just purchased the above Heat Sink, just wondering what is the best 80mm fan to use with it.

    Using this to overclock my 2800 Barton.

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    It depends entirely on what you want - quiet, cooling or a mixture of both.

    Look at that dorothy bradbury site http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dorothy...ry/panaflo.htm, and check out the dba and cfm ratings of the fans.

    iirc 21dba is v.quiet, 26 is about standard, and anything higher is getting into the loud category.
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    Was looking for a LED fan if possible. I dont think panaflo do LED fans?

    Need something quiet

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    nope panaflo are industrial fans, hence the very high mtbf and quietness factor.

    If you want something like a flashy LED fan then you're looking at the antec or coolermasters, noisier, more expensive and not as good a quality, but you get your glowing fan.

    http://www.thecoolingshop.co.uk/tcs/...p?idCategory=2 has a fairly large list of led fans.
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    thermaltake smart fan 2 is a very good fan pushing 75.7cfm @ 4800rpm... comes with two forms of adjustment... one knob and one thermister

    quality fan through and through

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    Originally posted by Axion
    thermaltake smart fan 2 is a very good fan pushing 75.7cfm @ 4800rpm... comes with two forms of adjustment... one knob and one thermister

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    bet it's bloody loud though!

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    Cheers all

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    Originally posted by Byatt
    bet it's bloody loud though!
    at the moment it is no louder than any of my other case fans

    @ 4800rpm it isnt quiet... but its no tornado

    its too loud to sleep... but when playing games/listening to music/watching dvds its fine...

    when i sleep its colder anyway... so i turn it down

    im still @ stock pending my new psu (borrowing a rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishty one) and @ 4800rpm it never reaches 30c load... it idles at about 30c when running quietly

    when oc'd i expect those figures to rise... but not by more than say 10-12c

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    I use a Mechatronics 53cfm fan on mine and it keeps my OCed XP1700+ very cool indeed and the noise it pretty good as well.

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    Get yon a panaflo from Dorothy if you value your hearing. I ordered two at 11pm on Sunday evening and they arrived this morning. L1As and they're as silent as - excellent engineering.

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    Originally posted by Axion
    thermaltake smart fan 2 is a very good fan pushing 75.7cfm @ 4800rpm... comes with two forms of adjustment... one knob and one thermister

    quality fan through and through

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    Precisely, I have a friend who is infinitely knowledgable about HS & fans and he recs SMartFan2 esp with your HS. I have a Smart Fan 2 on my Volcano11+ (that's std, £15 all in) and it runs my XP2500+ at XP3000+ speeds at 2200rpm ... that's both fast and quiet. It's adjustable so you can find your happy medium.

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    This intelligent case fan has a built-in temperature sensor which attaches to your CPU heatsink and controls fan speed between 1300 RPM and 4800 RPM. It features a constant blue LED with an additional red LED that lights when your Hard Disk Drive is being accessed for the ultimate in colourful effects.

    Can you keep it on 4800 all the time if you wished? or does it change speeds on it's own?

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    The Volcano 11? It has three modes...

    1. Max speed constant.
    2. Manually controlled and adjustable IIRC between 1700rpm (silent) and 4800rpm (hugely powerful) but I doubt you'd need more than 3800rpm.
    3. Temp monitored = changes speed as your CPU heats up (or whatever you attach the probe to).

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    i've got a volcano 11, the smart fan 2 is loud, at full speed it's just as loud as my delta, and to get any mediocum of quiet requires you to turn it down to it's lowest speed, anything in the middle is still pretty noisy. lots of other people seem to like it but i wouldn't recommend it myself.

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    At the moment the fan on my SLK is 53cfm 4200rpm 39db. If I were to run the TSF2 at 4200 would I get the same cfm and noise?

    If so I will just get it for the funky light

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