Which one is a good fan

[fakesushibunny]

um...i was wondering u guys can give me some advices or recommendations on HD cooling systems

i have a Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm 8MB buffer, recommendations of fans for that plz?

also for a geforce 4 graphic card, what is a good choice of fans

thx y'all

 

[Rotax]

'best' in my opinion for the hd, is putting a 80mm in front of it, blowing over it. this allows you to cool both the bottom and top of the drive, i went thru my share of 'hdd coolers', the lil fans on em die out so fast.. using case fans is such a nicer way of going about it.

 

[fakesushibunny]

i was wondering if u could list some brands and descriptions so that i know what to buy hehe thx man

 

[KingSVT]

go to thermaltake.com

 

[Cerb]

You'll find two favorites for fans:
Panaflo (Panasonic) L1A (Will soon be getting these, but have not yet used any)
Enermax temperature controlled fan (great little fan, and unlike the Panasonic ones, has a normal fan connector)
Both are quiet and should have a long life.
For a hard drive, you really don't need too much air moving--you just need some air moving. With an ideal case environment, the air being sucked in around the HD from the top-rear exhaust fan would be enough...but not everyone has such an ideal situation.

For the GF4: Zalman's heatpipe cooler, Vantec's Iceberg (requires epoxy), or Zalman's northbridge cooler (requires ghetto-rigging or epoxy). I use the Zalman northbridge cooler, but on most new video cards, it takes some work to mount it w/o adhesive, and you *might* still need a fan (but probably not). When I got mine, I didn't get the Vantec because I wanted it to be removable easily, but the Zalman NB32j was a PITA to install for the first time. Installing it on motherbaords like it was meant to be is far easier