Two months ago I built a system around a Nofan CPU cooler and a Silverpower silent PSU. I thought [H]ers might like to know my medium-term experience.
Basically it's been wonderful. All I can hear is the coil whine from my Asus 1080p monitor and my tinnitus.
The only real problem has been that one of my RAM sticks became faulty near a month ago. This revealed the desirability of angled DIMM sockets as I had to remove the Nofan heatsink several times. This exposed a couple of design flaws:
1 - there needs to be some sort of locking or holding mechanism for the stalks so when you unscrew the fixing screws, the stalks don't come undone. They're ridged, but it's not enough for a good grip within the confines of a PC case.
2 - if you look at the top view here:
you'll see that the plastic ring at the top has some inward-pointing bits. These align with the screws. As such they're a massive nuisance if you're not using a very long screwdriver.
That's about it, really. The Nofan really does do what it says on the tin. I'm currently running Prime 95 and after 2 hours, the CPU is sitting at 63 degrees C, which is ambient +37.
Basically it's been wonderful. All I can hear is the coil whine from my Asus 1080p monitor and my tinnitus.
The only real problem has been that one of my RAM sticks became faulty near a month ago. This revealed the desirability of angled DIMM sockets as I had to remove the Nofan heatsink several times. This exposed a couple of design flaws:
1 - there needs to be some sort of locking or holding mechanism for the stalks so when you unscrew the fixing screws, the stalks don't come undone. They're ridged, but it's not enough for a good grip within the confines of a PC case.
2 - if you look at the top view here:
you'll see that the plastic ring at the top has some inward-pointing bits. These align with the screws. As such they're a massive nuisance if you're not using a very long screwdriver.
That's about it, really. The Nofan really does do what it says on the tin. I'm currently running Prime 95 and after 2 hours, the CPU is sitting at 63 degrees C, which is ambient +37.