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Case Fans Question

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infecto

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I am trying to figure out how slow I can go with case fans.

I have a Lian Li aluminum case which has 2 80mm fans in the front pull in air, 1 80mm on the top pushing out, and 1 80mm pushing out on the back. The PS has 2 fans in it (supposed to have 3 but the one on the bottom went bad and being a special sized fan I have replaced it). All of a sudden I have had 2 case fans go bad in a week so I need to replaced them and figured I might as well replace the rest while I am at it. I am running a p4 2.6 with a ati 9600xt and one HD. Not putting out a ton of heat but does anyone have any suggestions on how low I can go with fan output? I know the best way is to check the temp but since my fans are bad its not going to be a very accurate reading at this point. Any suggestions to what fans in general would be great as well. Thanks.
 
that 6pack will be your best bang-for-your-buck buy. Any other fan that may be better will cost you more than that for just one fan.
 
Tiny said:
that 6pack will be your best bang-for-your-buck buy. Any other fan that may be better will cost you more than that for just one fan.
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Yeah I thought that pack would be great. Fairly quiet and decent output. With the amount of fans I have in my case and no overclocking I figured it would be fine. Do you think I could go with a fan that might have a even lower output? Cooler master also has this.

Air Flow 15.75cfm
Noise Level 13dBA
 
With no overclocking and that many fans I don't see a problem with it. You can always volt-mod the fans in the 6 pack, or run them all off of a controller, so you could crank them to full speed durring the summer or when-ever the need arose, and tune them down to lower speeds for your daily use.
 
Tiny said:
With no overclocking and that many fans I don't see a problem with it. You can always volt-mod the fans in the 6 pack, or run them all off of a controller, so you could crank them to full speed durring the summer or when-ever the need arose, and tune them down to lower speeds for your daily use.
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Thanks for all the info Tiny. I didn't even think about using a fan controller. Going to have to look through all the fan controllers now.
 
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