92mm fan to replace arctic freezer 64 pro fan?

[MarcVenice]

I've been on a quieting spree lately, and with new casefans in my p182, a new fan in my PSU and a new chipset cooler to go on my motherboard * supposedly southbridge ? * I've pretty much done everything that's in my power, except for replacing the fan of my arctic freezer 64 pro. When I held the fan down the PC got almost completely quiet, so I really want to replace it, meaning I can probably sleep when I leave the PC running at night.

Any ideas and/or suggestions? The Arctic freezer pro has a somewhat weird bracket for the fan, so it's not as simple as replacing it with a different 92mm fan. I don't want to really mod something, it has to be relatively simple. A 120mm could work too I think, it might actually fit so I could look into that as well. As for performance, right now my x2 3800+ @ 2.6ghz and stock vcore idles at 35c and hits about 50c under small fft's. So can sacrifice some performance for quietness.

Thanks in advance

 

[Zepper]

Panaflo 92mm fans have a good rep for quiet. Jab-tech.com has a good selection.

.bh.

 

[Navid]

In general, if you have a really bad (poorly designed) fan and you replace it with a good fan, you can reduce noise.
But, if you already have a good fan (like the Arctic Freezer fan), switching to a better fan will not reduce the noise significantly.

Then, the only way to reduce noise is to reduce the RPM of the fan. That, of course, could increase your temperatures. But, if your temperatures are low, why not? Just, reduce the RPM of the fan.

 

[MarcVenice]

Hmz yeah, I figured as much. I was also contemplating the fact that the fan is quite close to the aluminium cooling fins, which could be why it is making so much noise. I'm not quite ready to blow 50$ on a tuniq tower, but someday I will I find it weird that I can hear the HSF as much as I do though, with all the sounddampening going on in the p182. I haven't tried Cool & Quiet, but there's no other way to reduce the RPM of the fan, is there?

 

[Navid]

Are you saying you are running the fan at max RPM?
You are kidding, right?
That would be too loud.
Please enable your motherboard to control the RPM of the fan based on the temperature of the CPU. You will be so pleased.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
I haven't tried Cool & Quiet, but there's no other way to reduce the RPM of the fan, is there?

Yes, there is. You can use a fan controller.
That is a must if you are a silencing freak, like many others here.

 

[MarcVenice]

Wtfluff ... I thought I had enabled the fan speed controller, called 'Q-fan' in my bios. But apparently I didn't, so now I did, and yeah, my PC is in fact whisperquiet right now. Let's see if Cool & Quiet has any effect.

 

[Zepper]

Those open-frame AC fans have ceramic bearings that are brittle and often suffer from shipping damage. They should be very quiet even at full speed. I think AC gives a long warranty on their fans - see if they will RMA it for an exact replacement.

.bh.

 

[Om51]

You can buy a zalman fan-mate 2 and put the fan at silent-1900rpm .