120mm fan round-up/benchmarks?

[SpiderWaffle]

Does anyone know of some good round-ups/benchmarks comparing 120mm fans? I'm particular interested in a fan for cooling my TRUE 120 at about 45-55 CFM and 43-47dBA.

The best round-up I found I linked below. The only fan in this range is the Scythe Ultra Craze 2000. I would go with this but it has large hubs, and I have a theory that large hubs increase a dead zone of air-flow in the middle of the heatsink and are thus slightly less effective at cooling a heatsink they rest on compared to smaller hubs. It would be great to see something that compares the Scthe Ultra Craze with other similar speced small hub fans on a Heatsink.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/120-140-fans-roundup_28.html#sect0


Another option I'm considering is just getting a NH-D14 and selling my lapped TRUE 120, the cost of a fan shipped would be like $20 and the net cost to upgrade to NH-D14 would be about $35-40.

though I'd still be curious about the fans just as an enthusiast

 

[aphasia]

personally i've had the Scythe Kaze 2000RPM fans before (2 on a dual120mm radiator) and found them very loud even when throttled down to 1100-1300RPM.

i'm a fan (bad bad pun, couldn't help it) of the NoiseBlocker fans (MF12 S3HS). have 4 of them on 2 of my radiators. at full tilt, they are much better than my old Kaze's (noise wise) tho don't push as much air when at 12v. not that it matters as i couldn't stand the Kazes at full throttle. the NB MF12-P might be better suited, slightly higher spec than my MF12 S3HS. not sure of the cost comparison between the NB's and the other high end fans, tho the NB's are rated to last a lot longer than most (7 years).

 

[Bootleg Usher]

According to this test the Zalman F3 does 61 CFM at 23 dBA.

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

Store link:

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX31687

 

[Silent Knight]

I'm particular interested in a fan for cooling my TRUE 120 at about 45-55 CFM and 43-47dBA.

Normally fans with 45-55CFM only produce less than 25dBA.

If you can withstand the sub-50dBA fans then try one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835705003
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835213010

 

[SpiderWaffle]

Noiseblocker NB-Multiframe S-Series MF12-P looks pretty good, it's very similar to ultra Kaze 2000 but has small hubs.

Does anyone know of a temperature benchmarking between these two fans on a high performance heatsink? I'd be really curious to see the difference.

 

[PogueMahon]

SpiderWaffle

Thx for that link it helped me make my decision