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Best case fan?

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Robert_J

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What is the best fan i could add to my case that gives the best air flow and is quiet?
 
For case fans, I love Scythe Slipstreams. I have 6 of them hooked up to a Sunbeam Rehobus Extreme controller and they give me excellent airflow with little noise when running around 1100rpm. At the full 1600rpm they can get noisy, but that's becasue there are so many.
 
Robert_J said:
What is the best fan i could add to my case that gives the best air flow and is quiet?
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Nobody is going to be able to give you specific recommendations (like, actual part/model numbers) until you tell us at least what size fans you need. It would also be really helpful to know what your budget is, how many fans you need, what you're going to be using them for, what case they're going in and how you define quiet-e.g. do you want "absolutely inaudible sitting right next to you on top of your desk" quiet, or are you OK with "i can barely hear it under my desk" quiet?

With that said:

Sanyo Denki makes just about the best fans you can get without spending a lot of money; they're only about $20-25 each for most of their normal 120mm fans. Most people don't want to deal with the hassle of putting their own connectors on their fans though. :( If you're interested in going this route I'll throw up some links and part numbers and stuff. If it were my money, they're what I'd go with; they're enough of an improvement over cheaper fans to be worth the cost and the hassle. How does a 120mm fan that flows an honest 58.6CFM at an inaudible-unless-your-ear-is-right-next-to-it 24dB sound?

Assuming that you're one of those people who doesn't want that hassle... Scythe's Gentle Typhoons are very, very good. They're made by Nidec, which is almost as good as SD and they cost $5-10 less per fan (for the 120s); assuming you need 120s the 1850 or 1450rpm models are good choices for most peoples' needs; the 1850 may still qualify as "loud" to you (though I find it perfectly fine), but a cheap fan speed controller will slow it down just fine. They would be my second choice.

The Scythe S-Flexes are marginally cheaper than the Gentle Typhoons, but they're not as good. I personally think that between these two you should just cough up the extra couple of $$ for the Gentle Typhoons, but the S-Flexes are perfectly ok too.

I wouldn't personally spend money on anything cheaper than the S-Flexes; if you're adamant that $12-15 per fan is still too much though, just get some Yate Loons or Scythe Slipstreams like other people have recommended. They're dirt cheap, they're not what I would consider high quality by any stretch of the imagination, but they'll be quiet and if you're concerned enough about cost that $15 per fan is too much, you should be happy with the quality of either one.
 
alright looks like a might go with an 1850 rpm gentle typhoon.... i already have 1150's on my megahalems
 
I know this thread is about case fans but I was wondering if those enermax fans are any good for heatsinks or is 1200 RPM too slow?

Second question, if I had a heatsink that can do push/pull how exactly do I connect both the fans. Does one fan go on the cpu fan socket and the other go on a different fan header, or do both connectors get connected to some sort of adapter and then that is connected to the CPU fan header?
 
Bootleg Usher said:
I know this thread is about case fans but I was wondering if those enermax fans are any good for heatsinks or is 1200 RPM too slow?

Second question, if I had a heatsink that can do push/pull how exactly do I connect both the fans. Does one fan go on the cpu fan socket and the other go on a different fan header, or do both connectors get connected to some sort of adapter and then that is connected to the CPU fan header?
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I tested 65 fans in 112 setups on a Megahalems at 4GHz, reported here.

Assuming the two fans you use together do not draw more than one amp, you can put them on a Y-cable and let the MB's cpu heatsink control them. If the fans total more than 1 amp, you can put them on separate headers, or on Molex, or (if they are PWM fans) on an Akasa harness.

If you use a Y-cable, make sure that both yellow wires do not reach the MB header. Those are rpm-reporting wires, and two reports will confuse the MB. What I do is send the second yellow wire to another header, where it reports its rpm separately.
 
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here ya go! :p
 
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