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XP-90 and what fan?

The Thermaltaske fans are very nice for CFM........but they are noisy......

Let me try to help you in picking a fan,,,,
There comes a point when airflow is redundant.....
meaning anything over say 40 cfm(this is just an example) won`t get you anymore cooling power or lower temps.
All it will gte you is Peace of mind!

With that said its hard to fins a quiet 92mm fan.
But I believe (I could be wrong) the Thermaltake comes with a speed controller....
If it does I would get it.
I have the thermaltake 120mm and it dispalces over 90cfm but when running flat out is very loud.
Yet when I throttle it down its pretty quiet!1

Good Luck!!
 
Originally posted by: sparka
I was thinking about getting a ThermalTake Silent Cat 92mm for my XP-90 heatsink. It looks good (52.24 cfm @ 21dBA).
How does it compare to the panaflo L1A or L1B?

Thanks
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I would be extremely skeptical that that fan puts out 52CFM at only 21 decibels (or anything even close to that). HIGHLY doubtful. I'll believe that when I see proof that the specs were derived from testing in an anechoic chamber with the noise level measured at 1 meter. You know ... like reputable companies do. 😉

And what's with the first sentence about that fan (on the Xoxide site)? What do cats and soy sauce have to do with each other? 😕 That product description was prolly done by the same guy who thought Thermaltake's Soprano cases were named after the TV show. (News flash, Xoxide 'writer': they weren't.) :roll:
 
I'm using a Vantec Stealth 92mm with my XP-90. It runs at 1750RPM continuously and is very quiet. I can't hear it over my GPU fan (arctic cooling silencer). The XP-90 is such a well designed heatsink that you do not need a high RPM fan to provide excellent cooling. The setup I have works well enough even with my Winchester overclocked to 2.6GHz.
 
You have enough advice here.

Some people with CPU "toasters" were running the Vantec Tornado with the XP90, but as JediYoda said, this is overkill, since there is a CFM threshold beyond which the cooler's effectiveness does not improve. And the Tornado has the peculiar, singular characteristic of an irritating motor "groan" at the lower rpm.

The Silent Cat, as I understand, is a pretty good fan and designed for this sort of thing.

ThermalTake fans CAN be noisy, but the motor-whine occurs only at the high-end rpm ranges. The 92mm Blue LED fan by TT can be fairly quiet below 3,000 rpm. Even so, I've sampled several of those and they aren't equally quiet in the desired ranges.

Try and find a fan that has better than sleeve bearings, nevertheless. On my side, I have to put an XP-90 on an older system fitted with a TT PIPE101, and I've chosen the higher-speed Panaflo.
 
I don't entirely disagree with that approach.

I've made some assumptions that running a beefier fan motor at lower speeds is a better idea than running a fan that tops out at those speeds. Then, you have a wider range of speeds to play with, without sacrificing the low-noise ranges.

Of course, if we were to mass-produce our DIY computer-builds, the prototype might follow my choices of fans, and the assembly-line product would follow yours . . .
 
I personally would stay away from anything made from any Fan made by Vantec.
A Vantec on its own with no other support will sound well sort of quiet....
If you get a coolermaster os some other Quiet fan the Vantec will sound very loud!!
 
i've had both the Tt silent cat9 and panaflo 90mm L1B. the Tt was louder at full blast than the panaflo. im tried running both fans with a fanmate2 and had both fans spin at +/- 1400rpms and the Tt is still louder than the panaflo. panaflo for sure, cools my cpu after 100% load in a few seconds and idles at 36c max 45c.
 
Originally posted by: icepik
I'm using a Vantec Stealth 92mm with my XP-90. It runs at 1750RPM continuously and is very quiet. I can't hear it over my GPU fan (arctic cooling silencer). The XP-90 is such a well designed heatsink that you do not need a high RPM fan to provide excellent cooling. The setup I have works well enough even with my Winchester overclocked to 2.6GHz.
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I couldn't have said it better myself. In fact I have the same config and my cpu is @ 2.6GHz as well. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Ken90630
And what's with the first sentence about that fan (on the Xoxide site)? What do cats and soy sauce have to do with each other?
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I think it's refering to a popular joke that chinese food is made from cats. (At least its a popular joke where I live: NJ, USA)
 
Originally posted by: CrimsonKnight
Originally posted by: Ken90630
And what's with the first sentence about that fan (on the Xoxide site)? What do cats and soy sauce have to do with each other?
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I think it's refering to a popular joke that chinese food is made from cats. (At least its a popular joke where I live: NJ, USA)
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Okay. I've never heard that before. And I eat a lot of Chinese food. Go figure. Maybe it's a 'regional' joke. Thanks for clueing me in.

Meowww. 😀
 
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