80mm adapters do they work?

[lapdog]

I have a vantec cooler and love it but its louder than i like so i thought about putting a 80mm fan and adapter on it i would like to keep the air flow and lower the noise, but are they worth the cost do they do a good job? this is the one im thinking of Text

 

[GiZzO]

You got the big vantec that looks like the GW FOP? Forget the adapter just mount that 80mm fan straight on the HS, the top of that sink it pretty big and can accommodate the larger 80mm fan.
Performace will be worse with the adapter just go without it, and for freakin 40 bucks! Thats double what your heatsink cost!
How fans are they liek to blow out in a spread fire, and with this 80m down too 60mm, your blowing against the slope in all 4 directions, it would be alot of air turbance, and the fan wasting its energy blowing at reflected air, the fan will work less efficent due to presure.
If you ever try ducting (even with no downsize), anytime you try to direct the air path or restict it, it really bogs down the fans performance, give your fans as much room to breathe as possible.

So in all with the fan adapter your CPU temp should rise, unless used with a much higher CFM fan, which would be close to the dB rating you started off before with a 60mm fan, so your back were you started from.

 

[Davegod75]

so don't get the adapter? Hey Gizzo I know I asked you this before but If i got new taisol which 60mm fan would you get to replace the stock. I have a fop32-1 right now and I want better cooling with the same noise or less.

thanks

 

[jeffrey]

i'm not sure if on the vantec if the fan is supposed to blow or suck, but if it is to suck, then the adapter shouldn't produce any turbulance. alpha are desinged to have the fan suck and would seen to benefit from an adapter like the one mentioned

 

[Netopia]

I just bought a few 92mm and 80mm adapters from Overclockers Hideout. They are plastic and a lot less costly.

I am buying them for blowing out heatsinks like the HedgeHog and Alphas... and I'm betting that, (especially with the 92mm) I see some performace gain, though marginal, but also some quietness too.

Joe

 

[TuffGuy]

the design of the adapters from oveclockers hideout doesn't look as effective as the other designs i've seen...

 

[mthead]

Well I don't know if they work for everyone, but my homemade effort has worked very well. And it didn't cost me any real money. And its running pretty darn quiet. Now you will laugh at the garden variety parts I used from home depot. My buds did too until they saw my results and the n they decided to blow the 4 bucks it cost me. Now he's running 10c cooler too. I can't garantee it would work for you but it's working for us.

see it here:
http://www.members.home.net/joe-computer/

just click on coolin the bird. Some people have reported overlapping, but I cannot emulate their problems so whatever.

mt

 

[GiZzO]

What fan would I use on the Taisol 760?
Id probably go with a 80mm fan, due that its a very large heatsink, and the benfits of a 80mm fan blowing over all the fins would be great. Id probably use my own adapter Pic1 Pic2
Your only downsizing 2 sides but the other sides are still 80mm giving it that outtake to work optimaly and a path to breathe. Another way would be just to take the fan mount that came with the heatsink and cut it in 4, flip it pointing out and mount it by the inner hole (hard to explain, hope ya get it ). This will give you 80mm base to mount your fan, but problem with this is wasted air would expeled of the sides of the heatsink.

With the FOP just do the same thing as explained with Vantec, just mount a 80mm on top, no adapter! How you do it is 1 way is too take the clip, mount it on the opposite ends and clip it right onto the fan itself. Another way is to take a 80mm grill attach it to the fan and use the fan clips to clip on to the rings on the fan grill, i like this way better since its safer and cleaner.

The Vantec is designed to blow, but talking about fans that are meant to suck, alpha and hedgehog and such. Almost the same problem exist when using a 60mm to 80mm adapter. As the fan sucks the also suck ina spread fire, actully when sucking its even wider, and its sucking against the slope of the adapter. Theres very little space here, and gets less, this is bad. So again the fan would be working poorly not breathing freely and the fan is just spinning around not really taking in much air as it should.

92mm adapters, with blowing or sucking the problem is even worse! Cause the incline of the slope has to be even brauder degree, more of an angle, cause your going from 60mm to 92mm thats a big change. The fan would be even less efficent but due that 92mm fans blow so much more air it will sorta make up for the loss, it will have a tough time and will be Fighting itself!

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