Akasa Evo 33 owners, what fan do you use?

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Just wondered what 80mm fan people are using on their Akasa Evo 33s as I'm finding the stock amber at 2400rpm a bit noisy. Has anyone made/got a 80mm to 120mm fan converter on theirs?
 
I'm usign the stock one, runnig at 4800 RPM and it's quieter than my last HSF so i'm happy, it would be considered noisy though :p Try a Panaflo 80mm Fan, good CFM and not too bad on noise i think.
I don't know whether a 120mm conversion would work, depends on the motherboard.
I know it won't work on my An8-ultra as the 80MM just sits above my RAM lol have to take the fan off to change the RAM :p
 
4800rpm and its quieter than your last heatsink, what did you used to have?! I have seen some 80mm to 120mm converters, 1, 2 slots are covered so i just used 3 and 4. I mite try a panaflo although theyre difficult to get hold off.
Anyone else running anything apart from the stock fan?
 
I used an Evo 33 briefly before I switched to water, and I also found it to be a bit on the loud side. I've just checked the specs on the Akasa Amber fan on the OcUK site, and it's rated speed is 1800 rpm, yet yours is running at 2400 rpm (I seem to remember that mine ran at a similar speed on full)? Is it possible that the two fans are different versions?

As for alternative fans, Papst fans are supposed to be pretty decent. However, I have only used them at work (where there is a lot of background noise), so I can't say how good they are on a quiet basis.

If you are wanting to run a 80 => 120mm converter, is there room to fit it on the back of the heatsink, so that the fan is sucking air through it? That is how a lot of people using water-cooling have their radiator/fan set-up. It shouldn't harm performance.

Just some random thoughts...
 
Thanks, yeah I thought it was a bit strange that the lowest setting was 2400rpm. I might try a different fan but I'm tempted to get watercooling, what do bits and pieces do you have?
 
I currently have one of the Swiftech H20-120-FK kits, although I am having a problem with resonance in an Akasa Eclipse case. My experience is that noise seems to be subjective, and what is quiet for some is unbearable for others. So take all reviews with a pinch of salt;).

I think the main problem is that as soon as you quieten one part of your system, the next loudest part suddenly seems too much. It's a never-ending cycle:(

Good luck with your quest for silence!
 
I have a Evo 33 - damm its loud, ive got the controller that came with it installed and keep it on a low setting all the time. I whack it up on games whne the headfones are on and it dont bother me. I was thinking of getting 2 noise blocker S3's in a push pull config and hooking 1 upto my main fan controller. I belive these are very quiet.

Personally i think that the noise is made by the air flow over the heatsink. because the air passes through small gaps in the heatsink, this is think causes the noise.

The stock fan that is on there is not an amber btw. Ive got an amber and the amber is a lot quieter.
 
yeh the stock fan is very loud so i replaced it with a noise blocker s3 and its nice and quiet now, the s2 would be even quieter. The fan that is on there isnt the same as the retail 80mm amber it has a different product code and its rated speed at 12v is like 4000rpm, whereas the amber is 1800rpm.

Mark
 
I tried out the Evo33 briefly, probably no more than two days, with the stock fan pulling and a high CFM YS-Tech pulling - the noise meant I had to run it at low pretty much the whole time and the temps were slightly worse than an AC Freezer64 Pro and Zalman CNPS7700-Alcu, both also running at low speed.

I bought a couple of 80>120mm adapters to try out but they wouldn't fit on my motherboard.
The Evo is a good cooler but it simply can't compete with the higher end air coolers.
 
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