Titan Fenrir Fan Replacement?

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On a recent upgrade I installed a Titan Fenrir on an intel i7 920 cpu, although I’m pleased with the cooler I find the fan quite noisy when it picks up to speeds of say 1400 rpm and if it ever goees upto to it’s top speed of 2200 rpm it’s very noisy.

So I had a look about for quiet fans (I think it’s a 120mm) but most them have very low rpms, about 1300 so I’m not sure they would move enough air.

Anyone know of a good fan replacement for the titan fenrir?
 
Thanks for that my concern is over the speed of the fans the akas goes to 1300rpm and the Scythe 800rpm where as the titan fan goes upto 2200.
Now i have only had the titan upto 200rpm when running stress tests so my concern is will say the akasa be able to cope with any extra strain put on the cpu such if i was to overclock?
 
This is the spec of the titan fenrir fan:
Airflow 33 ÷ 78 CFM
Rated Speed 800 ÷ 2200 RPM
Fan Life Time 60.000h
Noise Level 17 ÷ 39 dBA

This is the spec of the akasa AK-FN057:
- Speed 600 -1300 RPM
- Max airflow 57.53 CFM (97.74 m3/h)
- Sound level 6.9 -16.05 dB(A)
- Max static air pressure 26.40 mm-H2O

Can some one tell me how they stack up?
 
Static pressure is the important factor when trying to push air through fins, the other fan thread has plenty of info and opinions.

forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18076595
 
Quiet fans are slow fans.

High pressure fans are fast fans.

High volume and high pressure fans are very fast fans.


Also that akasa pressure figure is incorrect but hasn't been changed even though it was mentioned when they came out. It's not 26.4 it's 2.64.
 
Noctua scored miserably in that last review in everything but noise.
CFM - Poor
Pressure - Poor
Airflow to noise ratio - Very poor

Can't be quiet and perform at the same time, no different to all the rest of the manufacturers :)
 
Some great advice there but i just can't get my brain around the fact the titans fan is set to spin much faster than a lot of the fans recommended.

I suppose i could just buy one and see how it goes.
 
I replaced my Titan fan with the apache and due to its lower speed temps where slightly worse under load.

Although it is a lot quieter now.

I guess it really depends on what you want, a lot less noise or even lower temps
 
greymack said:
Some great advice there but i just can't get my brain around the fact the titans fan is set to spin much faster than a lot of the fans recommended.

I suppose i could just buy one and see how it goes.
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It's a proper CPU cooler fan that's why.

The Titans fan spins fast to put air through heatsink fins.

All the fuss over apaches is jut hot air, the only thing it's good at is being quiet. The rest can be outdone with no problem by other 120mm fans BUT they have to be louder to do this as they spin faster.
 
Muel said:
I'm thinking of putting one of these on mine:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-000-BQ

Good choice? Reviews are good, and it makes 83.5 CFM (I think, that's the volume anyway), at 18.5db.

Also I'm only running the standard fan at 50% and I still have 10C of head room. Should I go for it?
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Hey dude, im afraid thats not 80CFM, thats 85 m3/h which is equall to around 50CFM i believe

Also its probably not 18dB at its fastest, it might be, but then it all depends on how far away they took the sound measurement from the fan.
 
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The titan fan is actually very good apart from like you say the noise. However I was thinking about replacing it but decided against it. What I did was to have the fan on FULL BLAST while I was getting my OC stable and then got to thinking that what I use my Pc for aint ever going to stress the system like linx and prime. So set the fan to auto and its very quiet indeed and of course only gets a bit noisey under load. Games are fine and the most stress I gave it recently was encoding some dvd's to mp4 in handbrake which is a multi thread aware app and shunted the temps up to close to 70 (hottest core), thus getting the fan a bit noisey. Just my 5 cents really and like this I get the best of both worlds, quiet on auto for everyday use, then great but noisey cooling for testing overclocks (but when its stable you aint gonna be doing that again really).
 
I could take the fan off mine and run it passive now because I wasn't comfortable with the voltages I needed to keep it at 3.8ghz, so I've put it back to stock now, haven't actually noticed any change at all. :P

I want to take mine off but when I do I get a CPU fan error every time I boot up and don't know how to make it go away. :(
 
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