Fan for SLK-800

[ScHpAnKy]

What fans do you guys run on your SLK-800s? And what do you get for temperature in fahrenheit? I'd like to get something quiet and cools fairly well, if it has LEDs that would be a plus too.

 

[TheGamerZ]

This is the best friend of the SLK series. Whisper quiet and does a fantastic job cooling. It kept my 2400+ (my desktop one, not the one in sig) at 33C idle and 42C load at 2.21 GHz.


36CFM model
http://store.yahoo.com/svcompucycle/70ystmdfan.html


30CFM model (slightly quieter.... very slightly)
http://store.yahoo.com/svcompucycle/703033dba45y.html

 

[isp]

I'm partial to these babies...

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/pa92hisp.html

 

[pduan87]

Originally posted by TheGamerZ
This is the best friend of the SLK series. Whisper quiet and does a fantastic job cooling. It kept my 2400+ (my desktop one, not the one in sig) at 33C idle and 42C load at 2.21 GHz.


36CFM model
http://store.yahoo.com/svcompucycle/70ystmdfan.html


30CFM model (slightly quieter.... very slightly)
http://store.yahoo.com/svcompucycle/703033dba45y.html

Actually no its not. Why would you use a 70mm fan on a hs that can hold 92mm fans?

 

[TheGamerZ]

How do you know? I had a 92mm fan on my slk too and the 70mm whooped its ass.

For one, the TMD fan has almost a nonexistant dead spot... thus more airflow to the center of the heatsink... which is the hottest. 92mm fans have HUGE deadspots in the middle because the motor is in the middle as opposed to the outside of the TMD fan.


Just because the fan is smaller does not mean it is worse. It's not the size that matters, its how you use it.


Oh and isp & pduan87, the SLK 800 doesn't even support 92mm fans...

The Thermalright website says,

Stepping fins to hold 60mm, 70mm and 80mm fans