Looking for a good variable speed fan to replace fan on Scythe Infinity

[RandomUser]

The fan that came with the Infinity does a good job and is quiet, but I'd rather have one that I can hook up to the Qfan on my Asus P5B Deluxe so it will ramp up the fan speed under heavy load.

Most of the posts I've seen here are for 3-pin fins. What is a good 4-pin fan that would be a good replacement?

 

[VinDSL]

Silverstone FM121...

 

[RandomUser]

I guess my title is somewhat misleading.

I'm not looking for a manually controlled fan. I just want one that can be controlled by Qfan with a higher top-end cfm. The Infinity fan just sits at 1200rpm regardless of load.

 

[Zepper]

How does Qfan control fan speed - by CPU temp, by RPM, ??? Can you adjust settings levels within Qfan? Very few 4-pin fans around and they aren't worth the cost, IMO. I suggest a Yate Loon low or med speed fan (petrastechshop.com). If the fan that came with is keeping the CPU under 60 deg C, and not making much noise, why not leave it alone?

.bh.

 

[gamefreakgcb]

Get a YATE Loon D12SL-12 from jab-tech or frozen-cpu or the likes. Low dBa and good airflow. I have 6 and I'm about to get some more (bought them for $12+S/H a while back)

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: Zepper
How does Qfan control fan speed...

My understanding is it's simply a semi-automated PWM controller that adjusts the fan RPM, via software, according to mobo temp and a user-selected percentage...

Personally, I would prefer to do this manually, rather than playing around with arbitrary percentages in software, and so forth, but to each his own...

 

[cmdrdredd]

Maybe just get a Panaflow high CFM fan and run it off a cheap controller that you can adjust to where you like it.?

 

[RandomUser]

"How does Qfan control fan speed - by CPU temp, by RPM"

You can set it so it ramps up the fan RPM at a specific temperature.

So I could set the threshold at 50C and it would start spinning faster until the temperature dropped back below 50C.