Looking or 200mm Fan

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nyden

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Hey everyone,

I recently built my new rig in a Corsair 650D. Overall I'm very happy with the case. However the stock fans were a bit to noisy for my taste. I did some research and found out that some of the early 650D case have a problem with their fans being noisy at low and medium speed. Corsair offers a free fan kit that is supposed to resolve this issue. I installed it and it is .. better, but not great. One of the two 200mm fans is still "buzzing". And I want to replace it.

So I looked into 200mm fans and it seems there are not a whole lot of choices out there. I guess I'm looking for the "ideal" fan: silent and lots of air being moved. Since it's hard hard to get both I was hoping you guys could tell me what you think about some of the options out there. Money is not an issue.

Here are some fans I looked at.

CoolerMaster MegaFlow

http://www.coolermaster.com/category.php?category_id=3510

CoolerMaster Storm Force

http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/category.php?category_id=1664

- might have a problem with the molex connector here

Antec Big Boy

http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=NzY=

I could not find much data on fans from other manufactures. Maybe you can help me out here.

Thanks for reading. I appreciate any thoughts, comments or feedback.
 
I had the Antec 900 a few years back and that came with a big boy fan up top. I set it to high and used a fan controller to take it down to as low an rpm as possible - I couldn't hear it unless my ear was right up against it.

NZXT also do 200mm fans I have a couple in my Phantom - they're not bad. It's difficult though as noise is such a subjective thing, the only real thing you can do is buy a few, plug them into a fan controller or use a good ole Zalman Fanmate or an inline resistor. Most fans though will require a minimum voltage to start...
 
Thanks for the quick reply :]

From what I've read my favorite is the CoolerMaster Storm Force, but - it has a molex connector. Would that mean that I'd have to run it a full speed all the time? Or is there a way to hook it up to a 3 or 4 pin connector? Then I could use it with the fan controller.

If not the Antec Big Boy might be the way to go.

Would this be what I'm looking for?

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=608
 
According to that link you posted on the CM site the storm force fan comes with both 2pin + molex. This means that there is no r.p.m sensor. A fan normally has 3 wires the yellow one being the r.p.m. sensor.

A standard molex has 4 wires 1 red, 1 yellow and 2 black. Between the red and black is 5v, and between the yellow and black is 12v.

molex.gif


You can buy a molex to fan cable which will give you both high and low in a single cable.

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Fan Adpater Cable

i.e. 5v for the red & black and 12v for the yellow & black.

I have used these cables to hard wire a fan to run at 5v so that it will run silently, however some fans do not start reliably at 5v. When these cables are used in conjuction with a 120mm Yate Loon or Nexus Real Silent case fan they are brilliant.
 
Awesome post sheroo, thank you. I think the 2 pin on the Storm Force is for the LED. I ended up getting a few of these: http://www.performance-pcs.com/cata...id=608&zenid=99cf5aaa8011ad0580379697ab942fb8

Hope those will work.

jack-uk:

I was having trouble finding a retailer that still has the CoolerMaster Storm Force. A lot of sites had things up like: "product may not be restocked" or "product may have been discontinued." Oddly enough a lot of African sites have them. But in the end I was able to find a US retailer.
 
Here's an unboxing of a Megaflow fan:-

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTk_z2Oz8U8[/media]

Looks like it comes as standard with a 3 pin female fan connector. Then you get a 3 pin male connector to molex passthrough.

molex_to_3pin_fan.jpg


As standard the red & black wires of the fan connector are connected to the yellow & black of the molex and will run at 12V. If you swap the molex wires around you can make a passthrough connector that will run at 5V.
 
I beleive the Storm Force fans are the ones they use in thier Storm series cases I.E. Sniper and Scout I have the Sniper and it has them in it I was so like cool finally they have those for sale as I wanted to change the color of mine (blue to red) Anywho that might be why you cant find them for sale everywhere but you can find the megaflow's I didnt want the megaflows due to the Storms have the extra fan wires one for fan one for led to wire into the cases built in fan/led controller where did ya find the Storms at???? and yes the mega's come with the molex to 3pin adapters included so you can fan control them
 
nyden said:
I wish Noctua would make 200mm fans ;]
Click to expand...

I wish the fanboy(girl)ism would end lol

bitfenix just released a 200mm spectre that you could take a look at?

I hear very mixed reviews but they are defiantly cheap and cheerful fans.

xigmatek also do a 200mm although I know nothing of it
 
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