Quietest Fans?

[DaGuv]

What, in your opinions, are the quietest fans with reasonable performance?

As long as they can cool an opty150 and 2 7800GTXs (NOT OVER-CLOCKED) using a 120.3 rad... i'm happy.

I don't want to be able to hear them over my game sound.

Thanx People

 

[Mindless-Moron]

nexus/yate loon are brilliant. dead silent pretty good airflow.

akasa ambers at 7v dead quiet 5v inaudiable.

panaflo at 7v very quiet.

if your using quiet fans i presume you'll be pairing it with a PA120.3?

 

[nick25]

AcoustiFan: DustPROOF = (Volts/cfm/dba) 12/56/25, 7/42/16, 5/25/<10

Scythe S-Flex = 12/33/8

What PSU will you be using though? As this will most probably be the loudest component. Nesteq do a nice 620W semi-fanless one (used to be called Elan Vital) is has 80% plus efficiency rating, 25A on 3.3, 30A on 5V, 12v1 18a 12v2 30a. 0-30dba - can have it manual or automatic (i.e when it reaches a certain temp fan goes on). I wouldn't like to use one on an SLI rig though having said that they do have 2 PCIe connectors so I guess they're designed for it?

 

[DaGuv]

Cheers people, Im using a PCP&C850 at the moment with 3 YStechs pulling air through the rad (125cfm and Very loud) Even on my fan controller at lowest possible speeds they are very audiable... I will have a look into all the above mentioned, thanx

If you know any retailers of these/other fans, can you please PM me, cheers.

 

[stocky]

This thread has some fans which have been tested:

http://www.extremeprometeia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3660

I'll be adding more fans to the table soon. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I think I'll have to source some of these Yate Loons to test...

 

[nick25]

Stocky if you could ever test those couple I mentioned above that would be much appreciated.

 

[maverik-sg1]

AcoustiFan: DustPROOF = (Volts/cfm/dba) 12/56/25, 7/42/16, 5/25/<10

Scythe S-Flex = 12/33/8

What PSU will you be using though? As this will most probably be the loudest component. Nesteq do a nice 620W semi-fanless one (used to be called Elan Vital) is has 80% plus efficiency rating, 25A on 3.3, 30A on 5V, 12v1 18a 12v2 30a. 0-30dba - can have it manual or automatic (i.e when it reaches a certain temp fan goes on). I wouldn't like to use one on an SLI rig though having said that they do have 2 PCIe connectors so I guess they're designed for it?

Sounds like a decent PSU - plenty of juice to the 12v rails too

Mav

 

[stocky]

Just ordered them

 

[DaGuv]

Just ordered them

Where from, can someone PM me some vendors please?

 

[nick25]

Just ordered them

Nice one dude! I'm particularly interested in how the Scythe performs as it sounds a bit too good to be true, having said that there passive heatsinks are excellent.

 

[stocky]

I agree, I wasn't aware of that one - I knew about the SilenX dust proof - I think Phil uses them in his systems, so they must be good!

The Scythe ones do sound interesting on the technology front, with fluid bearings etc...

Will be interesting to see. I do have a few more random fans to test; including an Evercool and an Adda (come with Lian-Li). :B