What is the Yate Loon of today?

[Gautama2]

I remember the a few years back, the de-facto cheap and quiet fan that could push decent air was the Yate Loon D12SL-12.

Is this still the cheap fan to get? Or has a newcomer dethroned the king?

 

[aigomorla]

no yates are still king for sub 5 dollar fans.

But currently the king 25mm fan with no price tag has to be the scythe gentle typhoons.

http://www.jab-tech.com/Scythe-Gentle-Typhoon-D1225C12B3AP-15-1850rpm-pr-4501.html

This is assuming u like to hear things... 38mm fans, its san aces.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

scythe pwm's are also very nice. as good as the 80 and 90mm nexus 12v are, stay far away from their pwm fans.

 

[Gillbot]

I remember the a few years back, the de-facto cheap and quiet fan that could push decent air was the Yate Loon D12SL-12.

Is this still the cheap fan to get? Or has a newcomer dethroned the king?

I prefer the Yate High speeds on a fan controller. That way I have the extra headroom if I want to crank them up.

 

[Tristor]

aigo what makes the gentle typhoon better than the s-flex?

To me, I figure that the fluid bearings in the s-flex account for better noise reduction at higher speeds. I do find it interesting that at 1850rpm the gentle typhoon is pushing 28dba... but only 58cfm. At 1600RPM the S-Flex SFF21F pushes 63CFM with the same noise rating of 28dba, and it's the same price.

I guess I'm not getting the point of the existence of the gentle typhoon. It might be a cool design if they did all the vibe dampening on a fluid bearing fan, but with it being double ball I'm just not getting the groove of it.

 

[Ayah]

Nothing beats the Yates for bang for your buck. Nothing comes close.