Favorite Case fan?

[njallday]

I have two more final small additions to my build that i will be making, one being adding some white NZXT leds and the other adding some case fans. The stock fans in my Switch 810 are just too loud. I'm wondering what your favorite/ recommended case fan (for air flow, not SP) is. Preferably non-led. I'm considering black spectre pro's or the non-led enermax tb-silences, but I just don't know. Oh, and please don't suggest the corsair af-120's, the rings won't even show when I orient them correctly.

 

[PetrolHead247]

I love my spectre pro's. I have them on 7V and they are silent yet they move a good amount of air too, and they look damn good.

 

[jamesriley94]

I'm confused about the Corsair part? You sound like you're disregarding the fan because you don't get to see the ring...?

They're still decent fans.

The BeQuiet Silent Wings are very quiet, and decent - a little pricey though

These days there's a lot of choice for high performance quiet fans - especially running at 7v.

 

[njallday]

I'm confused about the Corsair part? You sound like you're disregarding the fan because you don't get to see the ring...?

They're still decent fans.

The BeQuiet Silent Wings are very quiet, and decent - a little pricey though

These days there's a lot of choice for high performance quiet fans - especially running at 7v.

I just think they're quite ugly without the rings, and I know there's other fans that are just as good, if not better. Besides, I have the sp120's on my rads.

And no BeQuiet for me... Not available in North America

 

[jamesriley94]

Well I have in my case Silverstone air penetrators, a noctua NF-P12, a 140mm spectre and a bequiet.

I find all of those silent at 7v.

Take your pick from any of those listed along with the enermax ones - can't really go wrong with any of those IMO

 

[Josh Weston]

NF-S12B for case fans as they're absolutely silent at 7v - pretty much the only fan I have that is, actually.
I am however extremely, extremely fussy when it comes to sound.

 

[SEBAR]

I have several brands of fans and am always trying new fans. Last night I build a rig to re-purpose some of my unused hardware. I bought Silenex 120 and 100 mm fans. These fans are spectacular and I will definitely be using these fans gain. Some recommendations I can give on good quality fans are T.B Silence, Corsair AF Series, and Silenex. These are all great fans that are near silent at 12v. If you are bothered by the slightest fan noise just get some fan speed reducers. I use the ones from Quit pc. http://www.quietpcusa.com/Fan-Resistor-Cables.aspx

 

[Mustang]

Both my Fractal Design Silent Series R2 140mm's sound like an old man going "hmmmmmmm" in a very deep voice, so annoying, wouldn't recommend these!

Got some NZXT FN 140RB's on the way, hope these do better.

 

[dipzy]

I've used Bequiet Slient Wings and also Noctua fans the NF-p12 and NF-F12, all are quiet and move good air

 

[TicTac]

I love my Bitfenix Spectre Pros with white LEDs, Move decent air, pretty quite and look the 'Dogs gonads' as some would say

 

[NRG!]

I forget the model number but my only aftermarket fan in the case is a 900rpm noiseblocker which barely moves any air but is utterly silent, even if I put my ear next to it.

Tbf I don't need it to do any major exhausting though. .

I'm very very fussy about noise so I hooked up a fan controller to my AP181s as I had it lying around and the in-built controller on the rv02 runs them at either 700 or 1200rpm. Imo they are too loud at 700. I run them around 480.
The fan controller doesn't match with the front of my case but as soon as my gpu blocks arrive I can just mount it facing inwards and forget it exists.

I use 4 x bitfenix spectre pro 200mm on my radiator and they make quite a loud woosh at max rpm (800) but I usually run them at around 350 which is inaudible from where I sit.