In search of: quiet, good fans - 60mm and 120mm

[The Sauce]

Ok, my case is officially too loud. My delta 60mm and whatever-the-hell 120mm are now keeping me up at night when I leave the computer on. I think I would rather have 2 quieter 120mm fans instead (Lite-On case) and a lower output CPU fan. Any suggestions (please include links).

 

[soulm4tter]

120mm

I couldn't find a 60mm low noise fan, but look around.
Stay away from YS-Tech and Delta, they are loud fans. Sunon, Nidec and Sanyo make quiet fans.

sanyo

 

[*kjm]

Panflo's are some of the best, get the L1A's.

link

 

[rhinox99]

Gotta agree with kjm, I recently purchased some quiet fans from teamawe and they were easy to deal with and fast shippers, definitely worth checking out!

 

[dszd0g]

Yeah. Delta fans should only be used in server rooms or other rooms where people don't have to work.

I can sometimes sleep with a YS-Tech fan going, but I have to be pretty tired.

I would go with the highest cfm fan other than YS-Tech or Delta. I don't know about Nidec, but Sunon, Sanyo, and Panflo make good fans. The quiet Panflo fans I've heard are probably the quietest fans I've ever heard but as I recall their cfm was pretty low.

 

[tboo]

I just replaced my Delta with a Sunon 60mm fan-very quiet

 

[The Sauce]

Yeah, it doesn't have any output rating on those panaflo's at that site. Any idea? It would kinda defeat the purpose of getting a quiet 120mm fan if it only moved 60 CFM.