The quietest and best CFM 120mm fans for h100 and 140mm/200mm fans?

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I am looking to make my new computer as quiet as possible.

I'm going to be using the H100 cooler and have an HAF 932 advanced case.

What are the best 120 mm and 200 fans out there for the job? In terms of lowest noise but highest cfm ratio?

I've heard of the Scythe Slip Stream, AP-15, and Noctua.
 
I use Cooler Master BladeMaster on my H50 and they work very well.

The fans are PWM 2000rpm and have high static pressure which make them a good choice for radiator set ups.

Scythe Gentle Typhoons are also very good fans but trying to find them are usually tough.
I'd look for AP15s if you can find em
 
I think you will be pleasantly surprised at how good the stock fans are. At low speed they are virtually silent. I keep mine (on an h80) at medium speed and they're still very quiet.

Noctua are a no go, the corsair fans are definitely better in this application.

the scythes are competitive, but at the same time do you really need to spend an extra $40-80 on only a few degrees difference? Like lets be honest here.
 
I bought noiseblocker multiframe (1800rpm) and I like them very much (for a h100 as push). Also got a gentle typhone. The difference noise wise between the two is that the GT's do a higher pitch noise and the noiseblockers do the opposite. Just observational testing of course.

Edit: The noiseblockers come with rubber corners, rubber frame to put in betweent the case and the fan as well as rubber pins instead of screws (oh they are sleeved too). The gently typhons are just regular fans that aren't sleeved.
 
Scythe Gentle Typhoons

http://ismaeljordablog.blogspot.com/2011/08/h100-review-2.html

H100_Corsair_Vs_Nidec.jpg


I do not understand why people still have doubts about the best fans in the market, especially for heatsinks and radiators. Any review of an enthusiast or a website will tell you what are the best at ratio noise/pressure and air volume , this is confirmed every day
 
Jonelo said:
Scythe Gentle Typhoons

http://ismaeljordablog.blogspot.com/2011/08/h100-review-2.html

H100_Corsair_Vs_Nidec.jpg


I do not understand why people still have doubts about the best fans in the market, especially for heatsinks and radiators. Any review of an enthusiast or a website will tell you what are the best at ratio noise/pressure and air volume , this is confirmed every day
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Now i run my corsair h80 on low and medium, never high.
At low it is silent. At medium, it has very minor fan noise.

So what i see, is 40$ for a max of 3 degrees difference, and an inaudible decrease in sound level, my computer sits over a meter away from me.

Sure they perform well, but you have to ask yourself at one time, "do i NEED this extra performance with the level i'm overclocking to?". With my i7930 @ 4.0ghz, 1.21v, i never break 65 degrees on medium fan settings, and never break 75 on low fan settings, plus its super quiet. Why should I care about lowering sound levels if i cant hear, it, and why should I care about lowering the temps if they're already well below their limit?

The only time i would ever recommend spending more money on fans is if the level you want to overclock to (like if i wanted 4.4), output more heat than the stock fans were able to keep below 80 degrees Celsius. And on that point, there are very few people out there who aim that high for their overclocks, and those that do aim that high tend to get custom loops+scythe fans anyway and aren't asking about comparing against the corsair fans.

But hey, if you are okay with the idea superfluous number improvements in your system for your money, then go for it. Just realize that the improvements are insignificant until you go for very high overclocks.
 
thesecond said:
Now i run my corsair h80 on low and medium, never high.
At low it is silent. At medium, it has very minor fan noise.

So what i see, is 40$ for a max of 3 degrees difference, and an inaudible decrease in sound level, my computer sits over a meter away from me.

Sure they perform well, but you have to ask yourself at one time, "do i NEED this extra performance with the level i'm overclocking to?". With my i7930 @ 4.0ghz, 1.21v, i never break 65 degrees on medium fan settings, and never break 75 on low fan settings, plus its super quiet. Why should I care about lowering sound levels if i cant hear, it, and why should I care about lowering the temps if they're already well below their limit?

The only time i would ever recommend spending more money on fans is if the level you want to overclock to (like if i wanted 4.4), output more heat than the stock fans were able to keep below 80 degrees Celsius. And on that point, there are very few people out there who aim that high for their overclocks, and those that do aim that high tend to get custom loops+scythe fans anyway and aren't asking about comparing against the corsair fans.

But hey, if you are okay with the idea superfluous number improvements in your system for your money, then go for it. Just realize that the improvements are insignificant until you go for very high overclocks.
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You're missing something VERY important here.

On high, the Corsair fans (unless they're doing something weird where it's RPM sensing based speed, not voltage), are running at 2500 RPM. At high for the Gentle Typhoons, they're running at 1450 RPM. That's a HUGE noise difference for just 3 C difference. 1450 is barely audible, while 2500 is audible bordering on loud.
 
Read this review on the new Zalman fans. I am no expert on this stuff but I think the general consenus is that static pressure is important for pushing the air through a radiator. These fans beat a Thermalright TY140 which is a highly regarded fan in both static pressure and noise level, while coming very close to it in airflow.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1485/5/

Plus they look good and are not that expensive.
 
They still should have compared them to Gentle Typhoons. And a 140mm fan comparison is unfair, larger fans have higher airflow rates and lower static pressure than 120mm fans simply due to their larger size.
 
In the review they used the GT with the H100 controller in high , medium and low. Imagine you a GT 1450 rpm in medium or low. The review does not say, but must be inaudible .

I'm sure that GT at 1450 rpm makes less noise than the Corsair at 1300 rpm ... at beat by 10 degress the Corsair fans , probably with less noise . But in any case, in medium and low will be very quiet

eizen said:
Show me one vs noiseblockers
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I believe that there are noiseblokers in the reviews of Xbit and Martin in XS

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/120-140-fans-roundup.html

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...0mm-Fan-Testing-on-an-MCR120-Radiator-Round-6
 
Tsumi said:
You're missing something VERY important here.

On high, the Corsair fans (unless they're doing something weird where it's RPM sensing based speed, not voltage), are running at 2500 RPM. At high for the Gentle Typhoons, they're running at 1450 RPM. That's a HUGE noise difference for just 3 C difference. 1450 is barely audible, while 2500 is audible bordering on loud.
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whoa whoa whoa, where did you get those numbers. There are 3 sets of numbers in the graph, low speed fans, medium speed fans, and high speed fans, as driven by the fan controller in the h100.

At full speed, the corsairs @ 2500 beat the scythes @ 1450 by 1 degree. The only time the scythes beat the corsairs for a full 3 degrees is when they're both running on the low speed setting.

Should have read the graph before jumpin the gun ;)

As for comparing sound levels, I see it as irrelevant at that temperature. there is only a 4 degree difference from the scythes on high, and the corsair's on medium. That's a 4 degree difference with virtually no difference in volume level from 1 metre.

Very rarely will anybody actually care about those 4 degrees unless they're near their tmax.

However, i would see using the scythe fans as totally relevant if a person was near an uncomfortable temperature with their preferred sound level from the fans. But as i said before, you dont really need that 3 degree difference unless you're really driving your temperatures hard.

That article shows a stock h100 at low speed settings on an i7 980x clocked to 4.14v at 66 degrees on load. That is literally the god tier for a cpu cooler.
 
thesecond said:
whoa whoa whoa, where did you get those numbers. There are 3 sets of numbers in the graph, low speed fans, medium speed fans, and high speed fans, as driven by the fan controller in the h100.

At full speed, the corsairs @ 2500 beat the scythes @ 1450 by 1 degree. The only time the scythes beat the corsairs for a full 3 degrees is when they're both running on the low speed setting.

Should have read the graph before jumpin the gun ;)

As for comparing sound levels, I see it as irrelevant at that temperature. there is only a 4 degree difference from the scythes on high, and the corsair's on medium. That's a 4 degree difference with virtually no difference in volume level from 1 metre.

Very rarely will anybody actually care about those 4 degrees unless they're near their tmax.

However, i would see using the scythe fans as totally relevant if a person was near an uncomfortable temperature with their preferred sound level from the fans. But as i said before, you dont really need that 3 degree difference unless you're really driving your temperatures hard.

That article shows a stock h100 at low speed settings on an i7 980x clocked to 4.14v at 66 degrees on load. That is literally the god tier for a cpu cooler.
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I did read the graph. And you're still missing the point.

I don't know what voltage settings the controller puts high, medium, and low at. Let's assume that it's 100%, 70%, and 40%, respectively.

At 100%, both fans are spinning at their max rate. That's 1450 RPM for the Gentle Typhoon, and 2500 RPM for the Corsair fan. There is a huge noise difference between 1450 RPM and 2500 RPM. Don't trust me? Go buy a 2000 RPM fan and see how loud they are. Then go get a 1200 RPM fan, and see how loud those are. A cheap generic 1200 RPM fan is about as loud as a 1450 RPM Gentle Typhoon. And with that huge sound difference, the Gentle Typhoons only lose by 1 C.

Okay, now let's compare approximately the same fan RPM rates. The fairest would be (assuming those numbers above are approximately correct), 70% for the Gentle Typhoons at 1015 RPM and 40% for the Corsair fans at 1000 RPM. So comparing low on the Corsair to Medium on the Gentle Typhoons, it's no longer a 2 or 3 C difference. It's a 6 C difference. Get 1850 RPM Gentle Typhoons and the differences will be even greater.
 
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