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Fans, Fans, Fans....

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Any good more recent reviews/breakdowns of all of fans out there?

I just purchased a new case, and I am probably going to be in the market for 120mm and 140mm fans. Whatever fans I do end up choosing will be hooked into a 6 fan controller so that I can turn them down and enjoy the peace and quiet, or crank them up and have the best cooling possible under loads.

TIA.
 
It's a Fractal Design R3. I'm still not sure what my fan placement is going to be like, or if I even want to fill every available spot with a fan yet.

For bare minimum, I need 2 x 120mm fans for my Corsair H50 rad for push pull, and 1-120mm fan for the front intake.

If I wanted to max the case out...
top of the case with either 2x120mm or 2x140mm,
the side panel with 1x120mm or 1x140mm,
the bottom (if my PSU will let it fit) 1-120mm or 1-140mm.
 
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My R3:

There are:
* Thermalright TY-140 in the roof.
* TY-140 on the HR-02 cooler.
* Scythe Gentle Typhoon in the back.
* Two Thermalright X-Silent 140 after the HDD rack.
* Nothing on front/floor/side.

Air does flow from front and bottom to back and up, and the front filters are easier to clean without any fans on them. After all, the front fans wouldn't make much difference. All fans, save the cpu cooler, are connected to a fan controller and at low speed.

Now, the H50 setup is different. Being a radiator, I would use Gentle Typhoons for their static pressure. On the front GT's do touch the filter, so mounting them there is not trivial.
 
I'm thinking I may just go cheap and buy some of those medium speed yate loon 140mm fans, and reuse the "lian-li" 120mm fans from the rocketfish full tower case I'm replacing...

I sure wish amazon had those..... the free 2 day shipping would have been perfect.
 
theplaidfad said:
I'm thinking I may just go cheap and buy some of those medium speed yate loon 140mm fans, and reuse the "lian-li" 120mm fans from the rocketfish full tower case I'm replacing...

I sure wish amazon had those..... the free 2 day shipping would have been perfect.
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I just bought the medium speed Yate Loon 140mm to replace the fan that came with the Antec 300 (I broke it), starting to regret the purchase. Its relatively quiet but it seems like it pushes way less air, and the temps aren't much better than with no fan there. I'm looking at the high speed Scythe Kama Flex (this), 135mm(?) with 140mm screw holes, but its almost $20. I just bought 4 Panaflo L1B's to replace everything else, but if they weren't $5 a piece I would've stuck with the Yates.

As an aside, my Antec 300 has the 140mm top exhaust and 120mm rear exhaust pretty much right on top of my Scythe Infinity, and the fan on it is on the bottom blowing up. Anyone think it would benefit from a 2nd fan on the side blowing towards the back? I know people have done the quad fan thing but it never made sense to me.
 
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