i hate fry's

[ElFenix]

i'm standing in line at their customer disservice counter waiting to return a fan i bought this morning (got an 80, needed a 92) and listening to the conversation of the guy in front of me, who is trying to return windows xp home. the csr tells him that windows xp will not boot from a fat 32 partition. i started giving him and evil look at that point and was about to tell him that xp will let run just fine from fat 32 (i'm dual booting with 98 for those old dos games) and to stop lying to customers. then that guy left and the manager came over. shoulda told the manager. then when i returned the fan they gave me store credit, which i'd have normally been pissed about but i was about to go get another fan. so i get over to the fan section and they've got some 35 dB fry's branded toyo fan, which i figured was too loud. so i search around and find one other 92 mm fan, its a zalman but doesn't have any specs and the label isn't where i can read it. if figure zalman is quiet, and get it. take it home, pop it out of the bag, notice its 3.36 watts. divided by 12 volts is 0.28 amps. thats twice the amps of the fan i'm replacing (which was making all sorts of grinding noises, it was 3 years old after all. ) its not as annoying as my 10.44 watt delta is, nor my 4.3 watt sunon ultra high speed, but its not what i was going for. definitely louder than your run-of-the-mill 80 mm LED fan, though. might have been better off with the 35 dB fan. zalman even says on the package that is quiet. my ass. meh.

 

[Zim Hosein]

I guess you hate Zalman as well ElFenix

 

[nick1985]

ok

 

[0roo0roo]

92mm vantec stealth. f rys has em. that or u can get a fanmate 1 to slowur fan, generally go for 5 bux. well atleast at centralcomputer. frys only sells their overpriced vantec fanbus. u can get it at pixel-usa for 23bux. and apparenlty the only place u can get 92mm led fans is online

 

[Kadarin]

Such is life.. But you can't expect Fry's to be able to afford to pay people who know what they're doing, can you?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
92mm vantec stealth. f rys has em. that or u can get a fanmate 1 to slowur fan, generally go for 5 bux. well atleast at centralcomputer. frys only sells their overpriced vantec fanbus. u can get it at pixel-usa for 23bux. and apparenlty the only place u can get 92mm led fans is online

they didn't have any 92 mm stealth fans or i would have got one and not spent 10 minutes looking through the boxes on the shelves to find this zalman

 

[Kevin]

I think all fans are loud. I've tried so many and they all sound pretty similar...

 

[iwearnosox]

Is it this one?

I bought it, it's totally quiet and lowered my cpu temp 5c over my last one.

edit: oh, you're just buying a fan alone, huh?

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
92mm vantec stealth. f rys has em. that or u can get a fanmate 1 to slowur fan, generally go for 5 bux. well atleast at centralcomputer. frys only sells their overpriced vantec fanbus. u can get it at pixel-usa for 23bux. and apparenlty the only place u can get 92mm led fans is online

they didn't have any 92 mm stealth fans or i would have got one and not spent 10 minutes looking through the boxes on the shelves to find this zalman

yea, different frys have different stocks i've noticed. i remember when i was looking for fans one frys had tons of vantec, other had zip. that sucked. well ur choices are either to return it, or get a zalman fanmate for 5 bux for one fan, or a fan bus for 23bux and control 4+ fans.

 

[iwearnosox]

Fenix you need to install one of these.

I put them on all my fans. Even though I have 5 fans in my box it's pretty quiet...

 

[ElFenix]

yeah, just a fan alone.

i bet i could get one from SVC for like $3 thats quiet.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Fenix you need to install one of these.

I put them on all my fans. Even though I have 5 fans in my box it's pretty quiet...

but if u buy 5, u've already paid for one of these http://www.virtual-hideout.net/reviews/sunbeam_rheobus/print.html

or these http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1291

pixel-usa.com either is 23bux. some bay area brick and morter. sunbeams looks are slightly less spiffy, but the light actually indicates speed. vantecs light is just for looks, and it makes a slight clicking noise when dialed low.

there are quiet fans, but no fans ive seen is built to match the lowest setting on a fanbus.

 

[Sid59]

i miss fry's. Closest one is in Fremont. Im too lazy.

they need a closer Frys in the oakland/emeryville surrounding area.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Sid59
i miss fry's. Closest one is in Fremont. Im too lazy.

they need a closer Frys in the oakland/emeryville surrounding area.

Build a bigger highway for all those ikea fvcktards and they'll probably consider it.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox

Originally posted by: Sid59
i miss fry's. Closest one is in Fremont. Im too lazy.

they need a closer Frys in the oakland/emeryville surrounding area.

Build a bigger highway for all those ikea fvcktards and they'll probably consider it.

lol .. that's the state's job.

 

[Red Dawn]

But you can't expect Fry's to be able to afford to pay people who know what they're doing, can you?

Dude, Fry's has sucked for years!