Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1850 or Akasa Venom Vipe

w00dy85 · 31 Oct 2011 at 11:00

I bought a Antec Kuhler H20 620 when they were on offer the other week and have now decided to have a push/pull set up on it. I am currently using a Akasa AK-FN059 Venom Viper on my 620, which I had spare and not sure to buy another Venom Viper fan. Or ditch my viper fan and buy 2 Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm 1850 RPM.

Do you think it would be worth spending the extra £12 on the GT’s or do you think the viper’s will be as good?

Is it worth mixing fan's, say have the GT pushing air through the rad and the viper pulling air through or would that screw up the air flow?

These are the 2 fans’s I am looking at

Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm 1850 RPM

Akasa AK-FN059 120mm Ultra Quiet Venom Viper

Amidar · 31 Oct 2011 at 11:02

I would go for the Gentle Typhoons.

And you don't want to mix fans, allways use the same make & model in push/pull.

Angel_Rex · 31 Oct 2011 at 12:53

+1 for the GT1850 or GT1450 fans.

Kingy1968 · 31 Oct 2011 at 17:59

w00dy85 said:
I bought a Antec Kuhler H20 620 when they were on offer the other week and have now decided to have a push/pull set up on it. I am currently using a Akasa AK-FN059 Venom Viper on my 620, which I had spare and not sure to buy another Venom Viper fan. Or ditch my viper fan and buy 2 Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm 1850 RPM.

Do you think it would be worth spending the extra £12 on the GT’s or do you think the viper’s will be as good?

Is it worth mixing fan's, say have the GT pushing air through the rad and the viper pulling air through or would that screw up the air flow?

These are the 2 fans’s I am looking at

Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm 1850 RPM

Akasa AK-FN059 120mm Ultra Quiet Venom Viper

What speed and cpu are you running and what are the temps at the moment on idle and load??

stulid · 31 Oct 2011 at 18:16

Typhoon.

pgi947 · 31 Oct 2011 at 18:17

Have vipers in push/pull, if I was to buy again I would opt for 1850 GT's...

Adsta · 31 Oct 2011 at 18:39

Scythe GTs ALLLLLLLLL THE WAY

I really wish they did 140mm ones too

setter · 31 Oct 2011 at 21:05

If only they made the gt's with PWM, theyd be perfect.

TFC · 31 Oct 2011 at 21:15

+1 for the Typhoon

vectisitch · 31 Oct 2011 at 21:25

vipers.they have the same noise level at 28db full speed as the gt's.the cfm's are 83 on the viper and 58 on the gt's.not sure about static pressure on the gt's but the vipers have great static pressure.And the vipers are pwm.i don't know why the vipers never get mentioned and the everyone loves the gt's.maybe someone can explain why the gt's are much more popular than the vipers?

gropingmantis · 31 Oct 2011 at 21:36

Was going to ask this question but for an AXP-140 cooler rather than a rad. I am leaning towards the Vipers here as on paper they seem so much better.

jaf2212 · 31 Oct 2011 at 22:07

Vipers, I use them as case fans and for my Voodoo cooler and find them great

JeffyB · 31 Oct 2011 at 23:25

GT's are the best fans for rads, viper are good just not as good.

setter · 31 Oct 2011 at 23:32

I found the gt's to be pretty good for heatsinks as well, cooler was a TRUE with pretty tight fin spacing. Changed them for vipers due to the pwm function, got a temp increase of 1-2c, nothing major tbh. Got some silverstone air penetrator 140's to use as case intakes, im gonna try them on my megahelims to see how they fair. The focused airflow from them certainly feels pretty good.

vectisitch · 31 Oct 2011 at 23:38

JeffyB said:
GT's are the best fans for rads, viper are good just not as good.

but what makes them better than the vipers? the vipers seem better on paper.quite a lot more cfm

stulid · 31 Oct 2011 at 23:44

vectisitch said:
but what makes them better than the vipers? the vipers seem better on paper.quite a lot more cfm

Static pressure>CFM for rads.

JeffyB · 1 Nov 2011 at 00:52

Don't believe manufacturers claimed figures for fans, read some reviews that actually test the fans. The GT's will create more static pressure which is what's needed to drive the air through a rad, heatsink or filter.

joxang · 1 Nov 2011 at 00:57

I have both and the GTs are much better for cpu coolers/rads. The extra static pressure is really noticeable if you place your hand on the other side of the cooler.

Apart from noiseblocker multiframes, there really aren't better fans for cooling+noise.

JeffyB · 1 Nov 2011 at 01:01

Really nice comparison table for a good selection of fans. The % through the filter compared to open air results give a good indication of higher static pressure. He's also done a video of all the tested fans.

http://atreview.net/en/casefan.html

ATIorNvidia · 1 Nov 2011 at 01:16

stulid said:
Static pressure>CFM for rads.

GT's don't even have good static pressure. The only reason why they're popular is because of the little amount of noise they make. The AP-15 (1850rpm model) is rated at 20Pa (which is around 2.0mmh20). There are many fans that walk all over these in terms of raw performance, i.e the Scythe S-Flex's.