Modding PSU with different fan

[alizee]

My current PSU is too loud (1000W Ultra X3) and I'd like to put another fan in there. The only issue is, it houses a 135mm fan and I can't find very many of those (or any, for that matter) for sale. I can find plenty of 140mm, though. Would I be able to make these work in this PSU? I've never really seen a 140mm fan, so I'm not quite certain how big they are compared to this 135mm.

Thanks

 

[dualsmp]

Found a 135mm fan here. Fairly reasonable as well at $6.18 +free shipping. It took me awhile to find though as there don't seem to be many resellers. How much air it moves and how loud it is I don't know though.

http://www.budgetgadgets.com/1...er-cooling-p-4963.html

 

[HOOfan 1]

Originally posted by: dualsmp
Found a 135mm fan here. Fairly reasonable as well at $6.18 +free shipping. It took me awhile to find though as there don't seem to be many resellers. How much air it moves and how loud it is I don't know though.

http://www.budgetgadgets.com/1...er-cooling-p-4963.html

Young Lin is the same fan already in the Ultra

Globe makes the really quiet fans in the Enermax Revolution...if you could find one.

 

[imported_Scoop]

So it's definitely just about the tonality of the fan that bothers you? Swapping fans won't help if the fan controller is too aggressive to your taste.

 

[alizee]

Good find on the fans, I had a really hard time finding any 135mm.

Originally posted by: Scoop
So it's definitely just about the tonality of the fan that bothers you? Swapping fans won't help if the fan controller is too aggressive to your taste.

Good call, I put a resister(?) inline with the fan and slowed it down. I hope I don't kill the PSU, but I think it will be alright in my P180.

 

[Yellowbeard]

If you have room, you could perhaps add an 80mm fan to the outside of the PSU housing as sort of a forced air induction system.