I just bought 4 Yate Loon 120mm fans for my Stacker 810, and while I have not installed them yet (more on that later) I plugged them in to do a simple comparison test to my Arctic Cooling 120mm fan.
The Yate Loon at regular 12V is rather quiet, with a airflow hum near the outer edge of the fan blades. The hum was only noticeable when the fan was within 10 inches of my ear. At 1350rpm (ASUS PC Probe: ~1390 to 1450rpm), some airflow noise is to be expected.
The AC fan (at a rated 1500rpm - no rpm wire) is quite a bit louder than the Yate Loon at 12V. Interesting that a rated 24dba fan is louder than the 28dba rated Yate Loon. My apologies to Bobthelost, as I doubted him on another thread that manufacturer dba ratings are, for the most part, misleading. I am convinced of it now.
I have several Zalman RC56 (7V) 3-pin pass-through connectors, so I hooked up each fan to one to further analyze them. The Yate Loon at 7V (PC Probe: ~975 to 1000rpm) was very quiet indeed, the outer edge hum now only audible 2 to 3 inches away from my ear.
The AC fan at 7V quieted the airflow noise to about the level of the Yate Loon at 12V, however, a whole lot of motor "buzz" became very apparent up close to the fan (I did not hear anything like it at 12V). Such noise probably would be lost in my case, as I have two 80mm fans currently in my case (one on my V-1 VGA cooler and a blowhole fan) that would mask it. However, I think someone with a really quiet system would definitely hear it, as I could still faintly hear the noise about a foot away with my system on.
From my observations, the Yate Loon is clearly the superior fan, and it includes rpm monitoring as well. I am quite pleased with my new purchase. (I bought the AC thinking it had a rpm wire - after all, AC did include nice wire sleeving - but NO RPM WIRE! WTF!?
So heck with it, I decided to try the Yate Loons for myself. Glad I did. Thanks for the recommendation Bobthelost.
The one drawback to the Yate Loons is the enclosed screw holes. As they are now, I cannot mount it to my XP-120 with the wire clips. However, it is nothing a Dremel cannot fix.
I also bought some Acousti silicone polymer black fan mounts to mount the Yate Loons on the back of my case, so I will have to Dremel those as well. I bought the fourth to eventually mount as a blowhole when I mod the top of the case to accept a 120mm fan in place of the 80mm. Should look nice, as I ordered a mnpctech billet aluminum 120mm fan grill for the blowhole. Probably won't have time to do that till June or July though.
So, check out the Yate Loons -- they are one heck of a fan.
The Yate Loon at regular 12V is rather quiet, with a airflow hum near the outer edge of the fan blades. The hum was only noticeable when the fan was within 10 inches of my ear. At 1350rpm (ASUS PC Probe: ~1390 to 1450rpm), some airflow noise is to be expected.
The AC fan (at a rated 1500rpm - no rpm wire) is quite a bit louder than the Yate Loon at 12V. Interesting that a rated 24dba fan is louder than the 28dba rated Yate Loon. My apologies to Bobthelost, as I doubted him on another thread that manufacturer dba ratings are, for the most part, misleading. I am convinced of it now.
I have several Zalman RC56 (7V) 3-pin pass-through connectors, so I hooked up each fan to one to further analyze them. The Yate Loon at 7V (PC Probe: ~975 to 1000rpm) was very quiet indeed, the outer edge hum now only audible 2 to 3 inches away from my ear.
The AC fan at 7V quieted the airflow noise to about the level of the Yate Loon at 12V, however, a whole lot of motor "buzz" became very apparent up close to the fan (I did not hear anything like it at 12V). Such noise probably would be lost in my case, as I have two 80mm fans currently in my case (one on my V-1 VGA cooler and a blowhole fan) that would mask it. However, I think someone with a really quiet system would definitely hear it, as I could still faintly hear the noise about a foot away with my system on.
From my observations, the Yate Loon is clearly the superior fan, and it includes rpm monitoring as well. I am quite pleased with my new purchase. (I bought the AC thinking it had a rpm wire - after all, AC did include nice wire sleeving - but NO RPM WIRE! WTF!?
So heck with it, I decided to try the Yate Loons for myself. Glad I did. Thanks for the recommendation Bobthelost.
The one drawback to the Yate Loons is the enclosed screw holes. As they are now, I cannot mount it to my XP-120 with the wire clips. However, it is nothing a Dremel cannot fix.
I also bought some Acousti silicone polymer black fan mounts to mount the Yate Loons on the back of my case, so I will have to Dremel those as well. I bought the fourth to eventually mount as a blowhole when I mod the top of the case to accept a 120mm fan in place of the 80mm. Should look nice, as I ordered a mnpctech billet aluminum 120mm fan grill for the blowhole. Probably won't have time to do that till June or July though.
So, check out the Yate Loons -- they are one heck of a fan.
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