Best 120mm and 140mm fans?

somewhatdamaged

somewhatdamaged

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Looking for some new fans for my Megahalems and also my soon to purchase 800D

Heard the standard fans were poor. Any recommendations? I want maximum cooling ideally as my current case gets a bit too hot

No Deltas of course!!
 
For the Megahalems, I use two Noctua NF-P12s fans in push-pull. Works very well for me. Not sure about case fans however. In the market for some myself.
 
Akasa Vipers (1900 rpm), Apaches (1300 rpm), Gentle Typhoons (range of speeds), Sharkoon Silent Eagles (1000 & 2000rpm).

All these fans have good heatsink penetration. There's no need to use a different fan as a case fan as invariably they have to push or pull through filters and case grilles anyway.

Cheap end you could use Xilence Red wings.

For reference..
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cooling/2009/09/28/what-s-the-best-case-fan/1
 
In my old 1200 I replaced the case fans with noctua s12s, made it nice n quiet, n had the p12s on my heatsink too, the p12s have high static pressure for heatsinks where as teh s12s are better suited to the actual case.
Now on nice Lian Li goodness though PC-A71F :D
must admit it does bug me that you pay hundred plus for a case and it comes with shoddy fans :mad:
 
I use yate loons all round, 140's on my rad and 120's on my case. Really are great fans for the money, come in a variety of colours and 3 different speed versions available (sl, sm, sh)
 
I have a single Apache on my Megahalems and it does the job very well. I a after a second as I have the settings for a stable 3.6Ghz overclock. I cant even hear the fan mate, I think the loudest thing in my PC is the PSU fan or the HDDs.
 
Mr Krugga said:
Personally I'd go for cheap Yate Loons as case fans and Akasa Vipers for the cooler.
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+1, this is how i have m case set up, 2 x vipers on the cooler, 2 x 120mm 1600 rpm yate loons for exhaust and 2 x 140mm 1500 rpm yates for intake, all the case fans are ran of a fan controller, the vipers via PWM, the yates are a lot better than the stock Lian Li fans that came with the case.
 
I have experience with quite a few fans. I don't know the specifics regarding static pressure, but I know the specs for dB and for CFM.

I just bought a Xigmatek XSF-F1251 to get a bit more throughput in my case - and it works very well!! I hadn't heard of them before.

It puts out 78CFM. Sure feels like it. Claims to be <24db. Don't believe that. Sounds like more to me. It isn't loud at all, but it sounds more than that. I have no dB meter though!

Akasa Apache - these are amazing, pretty high CFM (68?) really quiet!!!

Arctic Cooling AF12025L claim 22dBA (and they are VERy quiet), but a meagre 26.7CFM. They were "holding up" the air in my case sadly. I replaced 2 of them with 1 Xigmatek and it has dropped a degree or 2. The noise has risen a bit, but I am not worried, I am now much happier with the air flow.

Scythe Kaze Juni 1900RPM - 110.3CFM. 37dBa. Yes to both. It is quite loud (though not annoying IMO.. you have this feeling that it is keeping things rightly cooled!). It really shifts air, and is really on the cheap side of fans. I VERY much recommend this fan if you need plenty of air and don't worry about the overall noise. Let's face it, the 220CFM fan I saw online is a bit louder ;)

The others I have had first hand contact with are all stock, and are all unimpressive. Noisy for a poor CFM.

Hope this helps!
Mike
 
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