Any experience with a crystal orb?

[Zoinks]

The high pitched noise from the fan on my Gainward GeForce 3 Ti200 is starting to get to me. I'm thinking of replacing it with a crystal orb. Does anyone know if this is any quieter? Its rated as 26.4 dba.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i got one it is pretty quite definately can't hear it over case fans
not sure what the dba rating is but there website should say

 

[Zoinks]

I found the dba rating - 26.4 - I just don't know what that means. Is it any quieter than the stock fan? Is the vantec iceberg quieter? The only reason I want to buy a new hs/fan is to make it quieter.

 

[oldfart]

I had a CORB on my GF3. Nice fan, but it is NOT quiet. I did a 7 volt mod to mine and took off the "TT" lid. It was quiet after that. Maybe just do a 7 volt mod to your stock fan.

 

[Zukatah]

If you want it quiet, you should mod it because the CO is somewhat noisy. Noise is a highly subjective thing, I find that my computer is noisy but some of my friends think it's really quiet...

Buy it, try it and mod it if it's necessary... that's my advice!

 

[Zoinks]

Thanks for the great link, but I don't want to slow down my fan. I've got the card running at 230/540 and I don't want any less cooling - just less noise!

 

[oldfart]

The CORB even with a 7 volt mod cools well. My GF3 ran 230 core just fine with the CORB @ 7 Volts and some AS III.

 

[Ogo]

My chrome orb is by far the noisiest thing in my case right now..