Recommendations for an 80mm fan for my Heatsink

[aphex]

Time for a new fan for my Thermalright AX-7, i would like it to be fairly quiet yet push a decent CFM.

I've been looking at a Panaflo High or a YS-Tech Adjustable.....

Any recs?

 

[SuperPickle]

Panaflo medium speed for pretty solid overall performance at nice noise levels..
Panaflo high speed with a fan controller if you want a little more air while regulating noise.

Panaflo has the best noise quality I've experienced. Many fans have a growl or a click or a whine depending on speed and size where Panaflo has none of that (barring a little whine at high speeds and wind 'whoosh' that you'll get with almost any fan). The only fan I use now that isn't Panaflo is a Vantec Stealth 120 but that's only because Panaflo doesn't make a 25mm thick 120mm fan.

With a large box of cast-off misc. speed/size/brand fans, I am truely a Panaflo fan...uh, fanboy.

 

[CraigRT]

Panaflo fans are always highly rated... but I setup a PC a while ago with a Vantec stealth, and it's great also. quiet, and moves a good enough amount of air.

might be perfect for your setup.

 

[Nohr]

I've got an AX-7 on my overclocked Barton 2500+ and a YS-Tech adjustable 80mm 10.2-48.7CFM fan.

When the fan is maxed out it cools well and isn't horribly loud, though it may be loud enough to annoy some people. When set to around half the fan's noise drops to where I can't hear it over my case fans, but it still keeps my CPU temp at acceptable levels (high 40's to low 50's with Seti running depending on what my A/C is at). At it's lowest it doesn't cool well enough and my CPU ramps up in to the 60C range with Seti@Home running.

 

[bucd]

I will have to agree with basilisk420.

Panaflow performs well with less noise then others with = or lesser performance.

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