Man slap two of these 120mm fans (440 CFM) on a TRUE

[Tempered81]

hahaha ridiculous fans:

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/de12gf.html

you may as well open up your case and point a leaf blower at the heatsink & fire up orthos for benchmarking.

 

[Rubycon]

LOL those are LOUD!

I wonder how it work sucking on Text. :Q

 

[AdamK47]

Wow! 220 CFM

 

[BlueAcolyte]

:Q Soundproofing, anyone? I think the CFM is so high from that fan that it would cause any other fans in its path to spin faster, right?

 

[taltamir]

soundproof WHAT exactly? its not the fan spinning that will make most the noise, it will be the sound of moving air. If you do anything to stop the sound you will also stop the air (which counters the whole point of having these fans.)

 

[Team42]

Bloody hell! The next overclocking must-have with those things fitted will be anchor bolts to stop the case from lifting off!

 

[MarcVenice]

Do you need an extra PSU to power those ?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I'm gonna buy 100 of them and build a hovercraft

 

[Ika]

It weights ONLY 570 grams!

 

[waffleironhead]

Finally something to keep my prescott cool!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

If any of you visited the "Cases & Cooling" forum during the summer of 2007, you might have taken a gander at my motherboard-ducting mod for a Striker Extreme, two 120x38mm Sanyo-Denki San-Ace exhaust fans, and actually, some of a wider presentation on "Case-Modding a Compaq ProLiant 1994 Server Case For Mobility And Multiple/Extreme Cooling Solutions." [I haven't posted that yet.]

I'm looking to modify my ducting for "show," by selectively replacing parts made of foam-art-board with Lexan. In turn, the Lexan will be modded by adding Mylar mirror window-film -- already presented for the case-side-panel window in the post I mentioned. The mirrored lexan then requires lighting to make the mobo and electronics "visible."

But the part of the duct between a TRU120Extreme and a San-Ace fan was to bel "left alone." A minor shortfall on "visibility."

So this gives me a great idea. The fan will be mounted to replace a San-Ace -- both of which are mounted to the rear-chassis -- there is NO fan mounted on the TRU120Ex. The extra width of the fan replaces the "legacy-stub" of my ducting.

Now -- that's my "idea" for my own case and cooler. Here is a speculation born of experience with DELTA fans -- in the face of snickers from the peanut-gallery I faced a couple years back.

Unlike some fans like the Vantec 92x38mm Tornado, the DELTA Tri-Blade 120x38mm 0.80A @ 12V fan (145CFM, 51 dBA), is wonderfully quiet when controlled in a range between ~800rpm<=speed<=2,800 rpm. Mostly, I've run it at 2,000 rpm. So the thoughts about the 51dBA don't completely apply.

Therefore, I speculate that this 56dBA, 200+CFM monster may behave the same way. It's specs were:

Specifications: 120x120x76mm, 220.29 CFM @ 3550/3200 RPM, 59.0 dBA, 31.80 watts, 2.65 amps, Maximum Air Pressure 15.04 mm H²O, 12v DC, 3+4 pin Molex header connector(s) or Bare Wire. ($1.00 discount)

Some of the more recent top-end motherboards will allow use of fans such that the cumulative amperage on the board is within 7 Amps. It's a gamble, but I'm willing to bet that my Striker motherboards -- or any number of other high-end boards -- will continue to work fine with the 2.65A-maximum on this bad boy.

Which means -- that it can be controlled through Q-Fan or some other device, and you could limit the noise to some game-play and folding@home.

The only risk I anticipate regards the per-plug amperage limit. But it has been explained to me that the design of these motherboard fan circuits only address a cumulative amperage, and there shouldn't be a problem pulling 2.5A+ from one, single plug.

I could be wrong, but I also . . . .could be . . . . right . . . .

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
Finally something to keep my prescott cool!

No, they don't move that much air. BTW, who would buy one of these things?? 59dBa makes it the loudest case fan ever, almost twice as loud as the 92mm Vantec Tornado. I had a 92mm Tornado, and you could hear it in the next room, over the television, with the TV turned up considerably (mostly to drown out the Tornado). And before you start thinking I'm one of those "quiet freaks", this fan is what I have attached to my heatsink, along with two 79 cfm 120mm case fans. And all three of my current case fans combined (all at max speed) make about half as much noise as that one Vantec Tornado.

 

[Emission]

I've always wanted to strap a GFB1212VHW (120x76mm) Delta to a heatsink and see what it does. I have a fun idea for a GTX480 + 4 of those, Let's see if I can lift my case .

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I'd find another way to secure that fan than putting it on the cooler. All you have to do is butt the thing right up against the TR-U-120-Ex, and it will work just the same as trying to hold it on there with those spring-clips.

 

[covert24]

you would have to 4 bolt that thing up to something. if that thing fell onto your motherboard it would destroy ANYTHING and EVERYTHING in its path haha. would be the next "tornado"

 

[paulxcook]

$40 for a case fan, 'eh? No thanks.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

paulxcook, it depends on whether you'd just as soon buy the item for your obsessive 'enthusiasm" or avoid it instead for a night at a decent restaurant.

Hobbies are things that people do to this or that extreme, knowing that their budgets and time my bulge or leak a bit. Then, you have "curiosity." You know -- "it killed the cat." :laugh:

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
paulxcook, it depends on whether you'd just as soon buy the item for your obsessive 'enthusiasm" or avoid it instead for a night at a decent restaurant.

Hobbies are things that people do to this or that extreme, knowing that their budgets and time my bulge or leak a bit. Then, you have "curiosity." You know -- "it killed the cat." :laugh:

man some wisdom in this post. I feel like i just had a revelation

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i saw this fan a little while ago. didn't really think of any way to use it or control it (maybe zalman fanmate?)

i'm currently using two of these for intake/exhaust in my LL case.
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/de12ff.html
They are controlled by a Sunbeam Rheobus and undervolt very well and aren't that loud at 7v or 9v. at 12v they are loud but that just tells me they're moving enough air to blow itself over if i left it standing on my desk.

heres my system:

http://s47.photobucket.com/alb...w&current=IMG_0137.jpg

 

[Gaurav Duggal]

one might as well use a vacuum cleaner to cool the heatsink. (I guaranty that it will keep almost anything cool!!).


PS: I tried that once but due to the speed of the air my CPU fan got spoilt.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
i saw this fan a little while ago. didn't really think of any way to use it or control it (maybe zalman fanmate?)

i'm currently using two of these for intake/exhaust in my LL case.
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/de12ff.html
They are controlled by a Sunbeam Rheobus and undervolt very well and aren't that loud at 7v or 9v. at 12v they are loud but that just tells me they're moving enough air to blow itself over if i left it standing on my desk.

heres my system:

http://s47.photobucket.com/alb...w¤t=IMG_0137.jpg

I have one of those Delta's sitting in my extra parts locker. I was in the habit of buying "extra fans" in 2004/2005 as I put together and modified my MOJO system (Requiescat in Pacem, MOJO, beloved MOJO . . . )

I really never got around to trying it. Instead, I picked:

Delta EFB1212SHE 120x38mm Triple Blade High Speed

That's about 10 CFM lower than the heavier fan you cited/linked. I mentioned earlier that below 2,800 rpm, there's no motor whine at all, and it does the trick as a CPU fan. I've controlled them from the CPU fan-plug on the mobo to no ill effect. MOJO (I weep, for cutting you up in little pieces and reusing your body parts) never went south for it. In fact, MOJO never went south. I just terminated it. I was "the Terminator."