Best Fan 120mm?

coneypark · 11 Jan 2007 at 23:09

Hi,

Well I just recently got a Noctua 120mm 1200rpm fan to replace one of my Ambers and I am well impressed with it.

It is very quiet - so quiet that I have it running at full speed and it is shifting plenty of air as well.

I am really happy with it and have another one on order to replace my other Amber.

Slackworth · 11 Jan 2007 at 23:40

I will try to get hold of somebody at Yate Loon tomorrow but as they are in the far east, they can be a bit of a pain.

Ice Tea · 11 Jan 2007 at 23:52

Nice one slack as Yate Loon are favoured by most of the watercooling community for 5v and 7v silent cooling as Nexus are just rebadged Yate Loons with the loom rewound for 1000rpm instead of 1200rpm yet Nexus cost a lot more paying for the brand name.

Ice Tea · 17 Jan 2007 at 08:54

MeddlE said:
The Noctua is very good as a case fan but not so good when attached to a heatsink, something to do with flow resistance? Scythe S-Flex for the heatsink.

This has been backed up by a well known user at xtremesystems called Vapor
who has bought and tested a lot of fans and has just bought a Noctua.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=127172&page=3

Looks like Nexus and YateLoon are still the best air to noise ratio.