bad experience with yate loon fans

[mrweirdo]

Just thought I would post about my bad experience with yate loon fans. I built up six different computers with those D80SM-12 80x80x25 ball bearing 27CFM 29DBA yate loons in them with Aopen cases and after about a month or two of somewhat light use(systems only on for a few hours at a time each day) those fans are bussing really loud. You could swear there are a bunch of motorcycle or jets running in the room now with all these systems. I was wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences. Anyways I wound up buying all new panaflows to replace those things and finally some piece and quite 🙂

 

[LifeStealer]

Was going to suggest panaflow 🙁

Never used them, but I've had enough crappy fans to know to only buy from who you know is good.

 

[Bluefront]

The Yate Loon fans.....rather than being crappy....are one of the quietest brands around. The 80mm version you have has ball bearings, making it much noiser than the sleeve bearing model D80SM-12S.

 

[LifeStealer]

Never said they were crappy, just didn't know they were good 😛

 

[akira34]

You sure it's not something else inside the case resonating when the fans spin? If it really is the fans, also consider getting some Vantec Stealth fans. I've used them before, and they are very quiet. They are rated at 27CFM at 21db, which I tend to believe with the ones I've used.

 

[Operandi]

Well Yate Loon's are used by Nexus and are considered to some of the quietest around, Seasonic also uses them in the Super Tornado series PSU. Those are most likely sleeve bearing fans however.

The Vantec Stealth?s don't stand a chance against a Panaflow btw.

 

[akira34]

Alright, lets pull down the case covers and whip out the db sensor. Oh, wait, I don't HAVE any 80mm fans in my systems... By the end of the long weekend, I won't even have any 92mm fans inside...

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: akira34
Alright, lets pull down the case covers and whip out the db sensor. Oh, wait, I don't HAVE any 80mm fans in my systems... By the end of the long weekend, I won't even have any 92mm fans inside...

That's not supposed to relevant to this thread is it? 😕

 

[akira34]

Originally posted by: Operandi

Originally posted by: akira34
Alright, lets pull down the case covers and whip out the db sensor. Oh, wait, I don't HAVE any 80mm fans in my systems... By the end of the long weekend, I won't even have any 92mm fans inside...

That's not supposed to relevant to this thread is it? 😕

You started going down the path of "my fan is better than your's"... Wanted to nip that in the bud...

It looks like the L1 fans push less air at the same db rating than the Stealth fans... While we're talking ~3CFM (not all that much) it is something...

As I mentioned, I have used the Stealth fans, and if no other fans were running, or anything else in the case, I could not hear them when at my normal distance from the computer. Or at least, not hear them over normal suburban background noise (quiet neighborhood too).

 

[Bluefront]

Well if you want to know about Vantec Stealth fans, go to a site that deals in quiet stuff.....SilentPCReview for instance....post a question. While there ask about Yate Loon fans. Questions about quiet computer components are best answered somewhere other than here.

 

[Operandi]

[/quote]It looks like the L1 fans push less air at the same db rating than the Stealth fans... While we're talking ~3CFM (not all that much) it is something... [/quote]

Manufacture's specs don't mean much, esp. when you?re dealing with figures that close. More to the point Stealth?s have been compared to Panaflows many times, the results are always the same; the Panaflow is quieter.