How many fans do you have?

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How many fans do you run in your rig?

I have 6 case fans (not including CPU cooler, PSU, and GPU), though I'm probably going to take a few out. (I had a fermi for a while, shit got hot!)


Do you have more? Less?
 
6 x 120 mm on my 360 radiator in push/pull (exhaust). 1 x 120mm rear intake. 4x140mm on my 280 radiator in push/pull (intake). 1x140mm in the PSU. So 12 total.
 
In my current rig not counting cpu, gpu and psu...I have 2, but the side is off because the case is to narrow to put it back on with my 980ti installed. I havent found a replacement case yet that jumps out at me, but I dont overclock or anything anymore so quiet will be my goal in a new case. Probably 2/3 big low rpm fans
 
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6 x 120 mm on my 360 radiator in push/pull (exhaust). 1 x 120mm rear intake. 4x140mm on my 280 radiator in push/pull (intake). 1x140mm in the PSU. So 12 total.
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Daaaaang. I Thought I had a lot!
 
I'm running the two stock fans in my NZXT build, so 2 (4 total including AIO fans). i'm running 4x140mm AF + stock rear exhaust fan (+2 air cooler fans) in my air 540 build.
 
I'm down to 11 fans, it's almost downright reasonable in my case atm. At the height of my OCing, I had about 24 fans.
 
According to my social media sites, I have about 7000 fans...computer fans I have 6 noctua's in one machine, 5 in another.
 
5 case fans in my Antec 900, 1 on psu, 2x 140mm on my rad, 2x 120mm blowing on my gfx card, 1x 80mm on a hard drive.
All very quiet and inside a table.
 
Dell T3500 based gaming rig = 5 total
  • two 120mm front intake the system came with
  • one 80mm affixed to the CPU heat sink with zip ties
  • two fans on RX 480

WinXP retro gaming rig = 6 total

  • one front 120mm - intake
  • one side 120mm - intake
  • one 92mm on CPU
  • one 40mm on northbridge
  • one 80mm PSU - exhaust
  • one unknown size on 7800 GS
  • 120mm empty "blow hole" in top

Win98 retro gaming rigone = 6 total

  • one front 80mm - intake
  • one side 80mm - intake
  • one back 80mm intake
  • one 80mm CPU
  • one 80mm PSU - exhaust
  • one 40mm on Voodoo4
  • 120mm empty "blow hole" in top

True I do like mostly intakes with a top blow hole. Seems to give best temps in all sensors that way.
 
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2x140 intake, 1x140 exhaust, 2x140 on my CPU rad (as exhaust), and that's about it (aside from PSU and video card).
 
5 using water... 3x Noctua iPPC in pull on a slim 360 rad, and 2x Noctua iPPC in pull on a slim 240 rad in an open-frame case. My temps are not out-of-this-world, but I can live with them and I try to keep things quiet.
 
Currently 4, but I don't have a terribly aggressive system.

When I lived without AC and the house would get to be near 100 inside I had a cooler master stacker with water cooling, 7 high speed fans and 6 pretty decent fans... You could hear that bitch from the driveway lol.
 
I have 4 fans - 1x 120mm exhaust, 3x 180mm Air Penetrators for intake (I use a Silverstone Raven RV02 rotated case).
 
Susquehannock said:
Dell T3500 based gaming rig = 5 total
  • two 120mm front intake the system came with
  • one 80mm affixed to the CPU heat sink with zip ties
  • two fans on RX 480

WinXP retro gaming rig = 6 total

  • one front 120mm - intake
  • one side 120mm - intake
  • one 92mm on CPU
  • one 40mm on northbridge
  • one 80mm PSU - exhaust
  • one unknown size on 7800 GS
  • 120mm empty "blow hole" in top

Win98 retro gaming rigone = 6 total

  • one front 80mm - intake
  • one side 80mm - intake
  • one back 80mm intake
  • one 80mm CPU
  • one 80mm PSU - exhaust
  • one 40mm on Voodoo4
  • 120mm empty "blow hole" in top

True I do like mostly intakes with a top blow hole. Seems to give best temps in all sensors that way.
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Sweet formatting.

My desktop has Noctua iPPC IP67 2k RPM AF140 fans. 4 Intake, 1 Exhaust in a Corsair 600Q. It's a bit of a weird setup because in this case the PSU fan is used as exhaust in the attic as it were, where as typically it's not a variable.

I try to keep my fan speed between 35-70 percent which trends on GPU temperature for my use case. Again it's a little bit of a weird setup, but it works.

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My rig has a total of 16 fans (not including the 140mm fan on the MaxRevo power supply):

2 Corsair case fans (140mm)
14 Gentle Typhoon 1850's (120mm) working a 360 and a 480 radiator in a push/pull configuration (running at ~1100 RPM):

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2 for push pull on cpu, Cpu exhaust fan, front intake, and a bottom fan to feed my 1080 ti with fresh air. Then the gpu fan, and psu.

So 7. Might add a top exhaust as well.

Every one of them is temp controlled also.

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3 Gentle Typhoon's and I guess the 980Ti blower fan.
 
3x 140mm fans (two intake at the front and one exhaust at the rear), 1x 120mm bottom intake, 4x 120mm fans for radiator push-pull config, mounted at the top of the case. Only other fan is GPU blower.
 
Six 120 mm Corsair ML fans (not the Pro or LED) in my current build inside a Cooler Master Mastercase Maker 5. Three intake in the front, two of which are on a 240 mm radiator, two intake in the top on a 240 radiator, one exhaust in the rear of the case. This does not count the one in the power supply.

The new build, inside a be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 has five 140 mm Corsair ML fans. Two intake on the front on a 280 mm slim radiator, two intake on the top in a 280 mm x 45 mm radiator and one exhaust on the back. Not counting the fan in the power supply. I still have the option to mount a single 120 or 140 mm in the bottom of the case but doubt that I will.
 
8 120mm in push pull 6 140mm in push pull and a 120mm intake all on a fan controler set to about 700-1000rpms or less.
 
Intake:
  • 2x 140mm front @ 7v
  • 1x 140mm bottom @ PWM
Exhaust:
  • 1x 140mm rear @ PWM
  • 1x 140mm top @ PWM
The PWM fans are linked to the CPU temp. The system is actually very quiet because the fans are kept at a low RPM most of the time. I've tweaked the fan curve so they hit 100% only when running stress tests like Prime95.
 
4x140mm intake on my front 280mm rad.
2x120mm rear exhaust on my 295x2 120mm rad.
2x140mm exhaust on top.
 
4x120mm Riings on the basement 480, intake
4x120mm SP120's in the roof 480, exhaust
2x120mm SP120's intake in the front
1x140mm AF140 reat exhaust.

so 11 total, running off an NZXT Grid+ v2
 
6x140mm Phanteks Case
8x120mm BitFenix Push/pull on my 480

Total of 14.

Not including the 3 on my 1070 and the 140mm in my psu.
 
around 25-28 fans , 27 are 12 CM fans out of which around 12 fans are Scythe DFS123812H ulra kaze.
 
Can't count them all. But in terms of fans used inside the case, I now only run 180mm fans or bigger. Dual 180mm@18dba is the same CFM as 2x120mm at full blast/Delta level noise mode lol.
Don't even need a CPU fan if you have a good cooler with large fin pitch (e.g. Scythe Ninja Rev 1).
TLDR: I can hear my HDDs spinning louder than the fans... and I don't have to worry about water leaks.
Silverstone FN181 is my jam. They're very reliable and I have run them close to 40k hours in other applications, just a bit of lithium grease or similar before they dry up and they keep on trucking. If you let them run dry they make a slight hissing-scraping sound forever.

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Its how many rotary subwoofers we are using.
http://www.rotarywoofer.com/
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The amount of sub/audio fags who don't know about the sheer dominance of a Thigpen is quite phenomenal. People making these huge non-WAF IB 8-16x 18" group delay shitfests, when a pair of these rotarys blows them out of the water for similar amount of space...
When I have a better place for it I will be installing a pair of these.
 
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The amount of sub/audio fags who don't know about the sheer dominance of a Thigpen is quite phenomenal. People making these huge non-WAF IB 8-16x 18" group delay shitfests, when a pair of these rotarys blows them out of the water for similar amount of space...
When I have a better place for it I will be installing a pair of these.
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Heh, I wouldnt be so cruel but your point is true.
I opted for a decent 12" large box sub to get 15Hz, and a 1KW seat shaker below that heavily EQ'd +dynamic EQ'd for lower amplitude response.
The woofer is fantastic.
The seat shaker isnt very good for music, it requires tweaking for each track and there is a small delay but it can be made to work well. It is a fecking pig to do though.
However the shaker is simply awesome for certain games like Battlefield and for high energy movies.
I "want" a Thigpen. Sadly havent got "permission".
I could probably do it for the same price as the shaker + amp as well, that was around £1000.
 
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Heh, I wouldnt be so cruel but your point is true.
I opted for a decent 12" large box sub to get 15Hz, and a 1KW seat shaker below that heavily EQ'd +dynamic EQ'd for lower amplitude response.
The woofer is fantastic.
The seat shaker isnt very good for music, it requires tweaking for each track and there is a small delay but it can be made to work well. It is a fecking pig to do though.
However the shaker is simply awesome for certain games like Battlefield and for high energy movies.
I "want" a Thigpen. Sadly havent got "permission".
I could probably do it for the same price as the shaker + amp as well, that was around £1000.
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That's a fascinating way to go... have heard good things about the shakers. Unsure why there is delay though - they're just another speaker driver on an amp right?? Or is it just the standing/vibration/harmonic that needs to establish (e.g. 20Hz in a big room).
15Hz is a good goal for most systems. I'm about 4-5Hz short allowing for quite a bit of rolloff (response is king though!) until I finish/get off my ass and build the mael-x 21.
If you can swing it, really all you need is an attic/cupboard/small room you can vent to. This way you can say 'hey I got rid of the terrible, unsightly sub... and the new one is invisible' ;P
There is a paper flying around the net with a truck they built a thigpen into the back of for infrasonic research in Hawaii!

Found it! Was a project called 'KING'.
https://bassment.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/king_is59_summary.pdf

Got me wondering if there is anything precluding me from buying an old shitty van and walling four of these fuckers to take out all the low Hz SPL comps hahahah
Would be hilarious to drive around with though.
 
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That's a fascinating way to go... have heard good things about the shakers. Unsure why there is delay though - they're just another speaker driver on an amp right?? Or is it just the standing/vibration/harmonic that needs to establish (e.g. 20Hz in a big room).
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It seems to be the delay getting the lump of metal moving and the time it takes for the vibration to travel through the sofa.
15Hz is a good goal for most systems. I'm about 4-5Hz short allowing for quite a bit of rolloff (response is king though!) until I finish/get off my ass and build the mael-x 21.
If you can swing it, really all you need is an attic/cupboard/small room you can vent to. This way you can say 'hey I got rid of the terrible, unsightly sub... and the new one is invisible' ;P
There is a paper flying around the net with a truck they built a thigpen into the back of for infrasonic research in Hawaii!

Found it! Was a project called 'KING'.
https://bassment.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/king_is59_summary.pdf

Got me wondering if there is anything precluding me from buying an old shitty van and walling four of these fuckers to take out all the low Hz SPL comps hahahah
Would be hilarious to drive around with though.
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You could scare a crowd with an earthquake sim!

I would have to build it from scratch as I cant get the thumbs up for the cost of prebuilt.
Space is also an issue as the subwoofer would still be needed.
The recommended range for the Thigpen is up to 20Hz, 30Hz at a stretch.
I wont be allowed to put a hole in the ceiling, wall or floor so it would be a room box.
It would be quite a project in many ways. Some compensation would be needed ;)


ps careful of too high SPL, your ears can suffer serious damage without realising because you can barely hear it, if at all.
You can even damage hearing of people near such a van!

I hurt one ear about 15 years ago when fiddling with my sub as it was playing.
There was a hot zone just above the rear controls that I put my head in. For years after deeep bass made it feel like there was fluid moving in my ear and felt pressurised.
I'm really lucky it cleared up but it took well over 5 years with lots of tlc.

My brother suffered bad damage through extensive use of high end headphones at high volume.
He is a bass monster so you can imagine the real cause.
He cannot listen to his hifi anywhere near loud now otherwise ringing starts.
He's not best pleased because he is an audiophile with decent kit.
 
Its started off as a bit of fun but then became addictive and it went too far.
Hangs head.
I may need help.
 
6x sp120 on x2 360mm rads
3x ek vardar on another rx360
3x AF140 on 420mm rad
1x200mm intake
1x sp120 to cool vrn

That makes 14 fans in total with another 20 high end fans in the closet :)

Off-topic – it sucks to live in a flat. Had to sell my two (music) subs after moving to another job in another city because walls are paper thin here (not that walls help any with low frequancies). Enjoying response down to ~35 Hz with my towers and more othen than not it is enough.
 
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