Adda Fans in Lian Li case - noisey

saintly · 15 Mar 2006 at 21:44

I have 2 x 120 mm Adda fans in my shiny new PC7.
Thing is, I'm finding them a bit noisy.
Are they just pushing a lot of air and therefore a fan controller will sort them out or are they noisy fans?

If a fan controller is the way, anyone recommend one that looks good in the case? I don't want to put something naff in, but I'm not sure about 22 quid on the Lian-li controller.

Cheers.

saintly · 16 Mar 2006 at 07:59

I know it's the case fans, as all my kit was in a different case only a week ago with one very quiet Akasa Amber fan.

As to how much air they are pushing - feels like a good amount, but its all relative aint it? What I want to know is - are they pushing like 70-75 CFM, in which case that's why they are loud and turning down to 40-50 will quiet them, or are they only pushing 40-50 and then I'd be better getting some quieter fans, eg Ambers?

The Lian-li site is very low on info.

It's not like listening to a jet taking off, just a bit too loud for eg web browsing.

cheers.

saintly · 16 Mar 2006 at 12:54

Er, all my stuff was in a particulalry vile beige thing from c. 2001!

Temps are 11C cooler for the CPU and over 15C cooler for the gfx, so I'm pretty happy with that difference at the mo!

I'll try 7 V modding them, see what the temps are like after. Once I find out how to...

cheers.

saintly · 16 Mar 2006 at 13:24

thanks

saintly · 16 Mar 2006 at 20:41

7V to the front fan now and things are much quieter.

saintly · 17 Mar 2006 at 08:04

The temps are completely as before - so that's great.

The case has the black ones. I had to shop around to get the case with 120 mm fans. I asked Overclockers but they told me it was definitely as advertised (ie 80, 120 mm) - which is strange of them to say so if everyone is getting the new cases, as they lost a sale.