Best 140mm Fan?

PSP83 · 21 May 2013 at 13:47

Hey.

I've got a fractal design define r4 case and I'm looking at replacing the the front fan & adding another.

Whats the best quiet 3 pin fan to use for the front of the case? (it does have the hard drive cages in)

Resident · 21 May 2013 at 14:24

Corsair AF140 Quiet Edition IMO.

PSP83 · 21 May 2013 at 14:35

Resident said:
Corsair AF140 Quiet Edition IMO.

Are these 4 pin or 3 pin? The fan controller only has 3 pin connections.

On Holiday · 21 May 2013 at 14:39

They are 3-pin, but they can also come in 4-pin (PWM) connectors too.

PSP83 · 21 May 2013 at 15:04

Is this a 3 pin one?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-006-CS

dneill2006 · 21 May 2013 at 15:09

PSP83 said:
Is this a 3 pin one?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-006-CS

PWM fans have 4-pins. As it's not a PWM fan it will be 3-pin

Yaayuh! · 21 May 2013 at 15:09

PSP83 said:
Is this a 3 pin one?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-006-CS

Yes.

deFiniLoGy · 21 May 2013 at 20:08

Noctua NF-P14 all the way!

inogen · 21 May 2013 at 20:11

deFiniLoGy said:
Noctua NF-P14 all the way!

I'm with ya buddy.

PSP83 · 23 May 2013 at 12:52

Thanks all for your suggestions/advice.

smilertoo · 23 May 2013 at 13:42

Are the supplied r4 fans considered quite noisy?

MatsyLR · 23 May 2013 at 14:43

^ No they are pretty quite, but they don't exactly push a lot of air.

olivier renault · 23 May 2013 at 15:14

BeQuiet SilentWings / ShadowWings aren't bad either. if you are looking at a decent performance / noise ratio.

Kaynar · 24 May 2013 at 12:39

I got both AF140 and Noiseblocker blacksilent pro PK2 140mm for different PCs. The AF series are not good, trust me. the Noiseblocker ones are clearly better.

OLDPHART · 24 May 2013 at 19:01

Hi, l'm using 140mm Zaward 900rpm fans set to pull on a 560 GT Stealth Rad cooling a i7 920:4.2ghs/toxic@6970 at 22'c ambient room temp cpu core's are 52'c to 55'c/gpu 47'c playing blops 11 for just over 2 hours they are very quiet indeed not bad for £8 each, they do make upto 2000rpm which you could use a fan controller for case use..

spixelspixel · 24 May 2013 at 19:15

the be quiet silent wings 2 are by far the best 140mm fans in terms of noise levels. I have 3 of them.. really expensive but they are on another level to all other fans (in terms of noise!)

not 100 percent sure if they fit in the front of the r4