is there anything better than a ThermalRight Ultra 120 eXtreme?

Sayso · 12 Apr 2011 at 20:39

Always amazes me that people believe the fan makers claims. I really could bring myself to spend £15 on a fan, i have done that in the past always looking for a super silent fan that pushes an incredible amount of air, basically for a fan to push air it needs to spin the faster it spins the noisier it gets, difference shapes and configurations can make a difference to the amount of air being moved but by how much is shown on most comprehensive tests to be not a lot.
For me its yate loon fans all the way the 38mm variety are £7 if you run them at the same speed as any other fan they will match/beat them i can't understand why anyone would use anything else (apart from the colour

)
The TRUE was the last aircooler i had and it matched my first watercooling set up.

WingZero30 · 12 Apr 2011 at 20:42

I would really like to know how much airflow noctua nh-d14 and thermalright silver arrow fans generate, now that I read the xbitlab review of fans

.

setter · 12 Apr 2011 at 21:47

The thing i like most about the vipers is that theyre PWM fans. Very handy, particularly if you have two in push/pull, put them on an akasa splitter cable. Of all the PWM fans ive used, the vipers are by far the best. List of ones ive tried.

Arctic cooling 12025
Arctic cooling F12
Sharkoon silent eagle se modular

WingZero30 · 12 Apr 2011 at 21:53

setter said:
The thing i like most about the vipers is that theyre PWM fans. Very handy, particularly if you have two in push/pull, put them on an akasa splitter cable. Of all the PWM fans ive used, the vipers are by far the best. List of ones ive tried.

Arctic cooling 12025
Arctic cooling F12
Sharkoon silent eagle se modular

That is exactly how I set up my Vipers on Thermalright IFX-14

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setter · 12 Apr 2011 at 22:03

I used to run 2x sharkoon silent eagle 2000's on my TRUE, very loud, hence the definite need for a fan controller, great cooling fans though. But the vipers are definitely better, temps with the sharkys at 4.0ghz were pushing 76c, 1.2750 vcore. Now on a super mega which was almost on a par with my lapped TRUE, cpu at 4.2ghz, 1.300 vcore, highest temp is still 76c, (tested in a room at 23c ambient) the vipers high static pressure really helps with coolers such as the mega/ultra, though they sound a lot louder at full speed on the mega compared to the TRUE. Ive also ran a few 140mm combos on the mega, (1000 rpm bitfenix spectres and 1400 rpm yate loons), very low on noise but temps were 2-3c higher compared to the vipers.

Helios1234 · 13 Apr 2011 at 00:04

WingZero30 said:
I would really like to know how much airflow noctua nh-d14 and thermalright silver arrow fans generate, now that I read the xbitlab review of fans.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/140mm-fan-roundup.html

The Thermalright wins.

Squid · 14 Apr 2011 at 17:48

WingZero30 said:
Lol I am shocked.

So it seems most of the fans have max airflow of between 20cfm and 40cfm with akasa viper falling roughly in the middle at around 31cfm at 12v. Is this the only comprehensive review of the fans? Would there be other sites aswell who reviewed viper and other fans?

I must still say that at full speed vipers do seem to generate lots of airflow when I place my hand behind the fan. I can feel the strength of airflow movement.

I know i put one on my CPU cooler and temp got worse... so i did research and for price of one Viper i could get 2 Cool-master S-flow ! temps are now 8c lower at same noise level (but it is two fans ....)

C64 · 14 Apr 2011 at 23:45

I wouldn't go buying any ty-14 fans at the moment me and another guy off here both had ticking fans I think there's bad batches doing the rounds or something as my other ones fine.And if you google around a bit you can find others saying the ty-14 is ticking.

sithlord · 15 Apr 2011 at 00:42

Well I bought and installed the Silver Arrow. Running fine and performance is very quiet which is what I wanted and its got great temperatures. No ticking fans here. Im only running 1 fan at the moment.

Damn that Lian Li case is fiddly putting the motherboard tray back on the case.

EniGmA1981 · 15 Apr 2011 at 07:06

If I were to buy two vipers for my Ultra120 eXtreme, what's the best stuff to paint them with? (can't cope with yellow ****ing fans LOL)

I'd want them either red or I could live with black like any other fan... just everything in my case is black or red (even the blue gigabyte mobo looks black under the red lighting

) so two yellow fans would just do my head in!
(that's the reason I haven't bought any before now lol)

Squid · 15 Apr 2011 at 10:54

EniGmA1981 said:
If I were to buy two vipers for my Ultra120 eXtreme, what's the best stuff to paint them with? (can't cope with yellow ****ing fans LOL)

I'd want them either red or I could live with black like any other fan... just everything in my case is black or red (even the blue gigabyte mobo looks black under the red lighting ) so two yellow fans would just do my head in!
(that's the reason I haven't bought any before now lol)

...Read this thread , Don't get the viper's there not the best 120mm fan

OLDPHART · 15 Apr 2011 at 16:30

Squid said:
...Read this thread , Don't get the viper's there not the best 120mm fan

I used a Viper plus a Apache on a H50 and got good results and theres quite a few people well pleased with them.

panyan · 15 Apr 2011 at 19:48

i vote notua d-14

the silver arrows not as secure apparently, the way it bolts to the mobo is not as good...

Helios1234 · 15 Apr 2011 at 20:30

panyan said:
i vote notua d-14

the silver arrows not as secure apparently, the way it bolts to the mobo is not as good...

Not true. It's very secure.

Sean_UK · 15 Apr 2011 at 21:57

Going from an Ultra 120 Black Edition to Noctua D14 knocked about 5c off load temps with my former Q9650, and tbh most likely had a lot more to do with Thermalright's rubbish Ultra 120 bracket.