Looking for a Good Fan

[TheRyuu]

I'm looking for a 120mm case fan.

Requierments:
-Has to be Blue LED (to match my other fans)
-Has to be Quite (I have a fan controller so this is an option)
-Has to move decent amout of air
-Can be either 25mm or 35mm thick <-I think thats the measurements, not really sure about that)

Thats about it.
Also if you could also recommend a 92/90mm fan with the same criteria above, that will also be nice.

 

[TheRyuu]

What about these:

120mm Fan

92mm Fan

So?

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

The better and best fans are NOT LED or UV. Some UV and LED fans are good however.

For the widest selection of LED fans that I've seen http://www.performance-pcs.com .

Jab-Tech, crazypc, SVC, froozenCPU, are some others.

...Galvanized

 

[TheRyuu]

What about the ones that I choose in the 2nd post?

EDIT: I'm not looking for uber fast fans here, just decent 120mm and 92mm case fans to replace my stock ones that won't go past 1400rmp at 12v.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

You say your going to have a controller. Most fans <1000rpm are pretty quiet.

...Galvanized

 

[zagood]

JediYoda always says how great these fans are, if you need LED might want to check them out.

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/...product_info&cPath=69&products_id=2209

Some good fans at perf pcs, those AC Ryans have great specs but I'd like to see one in person. Stay away from the Antecs.

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/...zenid=051c96d3d9a84dbb09db656db424dbbc

-z

 

[Zepper]

Generally I avoid fans marketed by middlemen like Antec as you will likely be paying more for the pleasure. Antec doesn't manufacture fans... OTOH, you might not be able to buy that particular fan in the states if Antec didn't put their label on it. OTTH, Antec seems to be putting so much price pressure on their OEMs that corners are being cut. For example, one can't rely as much on the consistent quality of Antec PSUs these days as one once could.
. Both the CoolerMaster and Aerocool fans share that same middleman problem, but neither CoolerMaster nor Aerocool share the same name recognition or size of an Antec, so the ability to apply price-pressure in the same way is somewhat less. I've heard good things about the CoolerMaster LED fans. They put out decent CFM while being reasonably quiet.

Be aware that sleeve bearing fans have more of a tendency to buzz on a PWM controller than a good ball-bearing fan would. And both sleeve and bb fans with loose tolerances may have a tendency to tick if you drop the speed with a controller. I've not heard that the CM units have those problems. Apparently lots of ATers and others are using them.

I have little knowledge of 92mm fans as I've only used two of them myself and none are LED. As was mentioned above, the top shelf fan mfrs just don't make LED fans and I try to get top shelf fans whenever possible.

You could always create a small array of blue LEDs to place behind a quality fan and drive the array off a square wave generator to make interesting patterns of the blades or even apparently stopping them in mid-spin.

.bh.

 

[Shadowknight]

They're out of stock now but tekjems periodically stocks blue led Yate Loons. Nexus uses their fans, with an inline resistor, and rebadges them. They're considered the quietest fans available, so keep checking to see if the YL blue led model is back in stock: http://tekgems.com/Products/et-13714-fan-d12sm-12.htm

 

[whovous]

Those blue Yate Loons are plenty quiet once you turn the voltage down a little bit. The black ones are supposedly quieter still, but I wanted the clear ones in my windowed case. They have both 3pin and 4pin connectors, with very long wires on each.