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Someone, quick... need input ASAP... thx

looper

looper

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New Lian Li case still in box with all new comp. components for new rig...

Heard that the 120mm fans that come with the case are not the greatest...

What is considered top-notch 120mm fan now? My buddy coming over Friday to help me assemble...need the new fans by then...

Thx...
 
C'mon anyone would have to be totally oblivious to not know about fans here. Open your eyes, look around. You should be tripping over fan threads about now. I punched fans into the search field at the top of the page and came up with two pages of threads...

.bh.
 
Sorry, Zepper...busy day at work right now...,not idly surfing the forums..., while trying to shop for best fans and receive them for Friday...

 
Howard... geez...

I'm not going to OC...just Asus P5B, E6600, 8800GTS, Corsair mem, one hard drive(sata)...

What would you go with? Papst's 4412? Noctua? Scythe?
 
Originally posted by: looper
Howard... geez...

I'm not going to OC...just Asus P5B, E6600, 8800GTS, Corsair mem, one hard drive(sata)...

What would you go with? Papst's 4412? Noctua? Scythe?
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Geez?
 
I use the Yate Loon D12SL-12 for all my 120mm case cooling needs (higher quality ball bearing fans for CPU and PSU cooling duties).

Leave them at 12v if you want to move a decent amount of air, or under volt them and they almost completely disappear from an acoustical point of view.
 
26 Fans Tested
Re. the Lian Li branded fans. I had one here in their EX-34B HDD cage. Not as quiet as the Y-L or the Coolermaster that is used in their 4-in-3 Device Module but puts out substantially more air to. Rember 3dBA (twice the sound pressure) is the smallest change that most ears notice as a change and 10dB is subjectively twice the loudness to most ears. The quality of the noise is often more important than the absolute loudness.


Yate Loon for inexpensive fans ($3.50 or less in quantity from jab-tech.com), the Global Win from SVC.com is good too, but it would be hard to beat the Silverstone FN121 if low noise and not cost is the high priority. The YL are a bit spotty as reported in the tests linked above. One of the four or five I recently bought was an outflier (higher noise than the SD should allow). For higher CFM the panaflo L1 or M1 aren't bad (BX suffix if you need the speed sensor. Check the charts in the linked review - the fans with the steeper slopes have the better ratio of CFM to Noise. Some are hard to find and/or unobtainium (like the Sharkoon) in the States. www.Performance-PCs.com has some of the rare ones. sidewindercomputers.com is known for a good stock of Delta fans and the Akasa Amber fans. The Noctua fans can be found but they are low CFM and expensive - not hard to make fans quiet if you don't have to push any air... For very quiet at 5V yet having over 100 CFM at full cry, it's hard to beat the Sanyo Denki 109R1212H1011 (thermalfx.com) - will definitely need a fan controller - these and the Panaflos are 38mm thick, not usable in some applications. The Arctic Cooling AF12 (also 38mm and lacks the speed sensor wire) is also a very nice fan but mainly for exhaust or CPU use - some cases can use them for intake - very quiet if their bearings aren't damaged in shipping. Madshrimps.be also has a review of 21 120mm fans over two reviews.

.bh.

Tip: If the fans you buy have stickers on the hub of the fan rotor itself, peel them off unless perfectly centered - you can tell by giving the blade a brief manual spin. It made a difference on some I've had here recently - I could feel the out-of-balance due to the labels. The rotors don't weigh much so it's not hard to unbalance them. .bh.
 
"Geez"... meaning I'm too occupied at work, that I shouldn't be trying to do this today...nevermind. Sorry...

Thx for your input.
 
Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: looper
Howard... geez...

I'm not going to OC...just Asus P5B, E6600, 8800GTS, Corsair mem, one hard drive(sata)...

What would you go with? Papst's 4412? Noctua? Scythe?
Click to expand...
Geez?
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poor howard.... no one gives you the respect anymore these days.

just wait for them to have a PSU question and you know they will be all over you. 😛
 
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