Best fans for Black Ice radiators

Guitarman0 · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:43

What would you guys think of these?

I will be running them through a fan controller so noise shouldn't be that much of an issue should it?

bifday2k · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:50

If your running them on that rad, u will never have to go over 1000rpm so personally i would just get yateloons if using a fan controller.

My 2 vipers on my rad are constantly at 700rpm, i never need to run them faster, on the odd occasion i do, just to see what temps i can get down too, the fastest i have ever run them is 1200rpm, anything more then that just adds noise and no performance.

So id say get the cheapest fans u can, and use a fan controller.

Guitarman0 · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:56

bifday2k said:
If your running them on that rad, u will never have to go over 1000rpm so personally i would just get yateloons if using a fan controller.

My 2 vipers on my rad are constantly at 700rpm, i never need to run them faster, on the odd occasion i do, just to see what temps i can get down too, the fastest i have ever run them is 1200rpm, anything more then that just adds noise and no performance.

So id say get the cheapest fans u can, and use a fan controller.

My mate has fans running at 800rpm through a black ice radiator and he can barely feel the air coming out the other side though.

bifday2k · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:12

I use mine in pull, as its how Thermochill recommend it, i know my rad is thicker then the thiner Black ice ones, but u still should'nt have to use a fan over 1000rpm though.

Guitarman0 · 2 Jan 2011 at 23:43

bifday2k said:
I use mine in pull, as its how Thermochill recommend it, i know my rad is thicker then the thiner Black ice ones, but u still should'nt have to use a fan over 1000rpm though.

It is all about fin density though. The black ice stealth rads have a really high fin density.

Greboth · 3 Jan 2011 at 00:33

ConTRo13R said:
id want the vipers its just the yellow fins that put me off and the apache black dont perform as well :/

How about red ones then

As for the fans to use, if its a dense rad then you are going to need a semi decent fan to be able to get enough air through it. The vipers are good fans but their negativity is really the price of them. As others above mine don't go above 800rpm unless I want to see how low a temp I can get and past ~1200rpm I see no difference. It is nice to know the performance is there and they should perform even better on a high fpi rad than on low ones.