Better airflow and quieter than Spectre Pro's

aceytrixx

aceytrixx

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as the title says im looking for fans better than these

YOUR BASKET
1 x BitFenix Spectre PRO 120mm Fan - All White £11.99
Total : £14.27 (includes shipping : £1.90).



I'm hoping I can find something thats a bit cheapter than the Nocturas.
I have the Carbide air 540 so my options are

Front: 3x120 or 2x140
Top: 2x120 or 2x140
Rear: 120 or 140

im going to be adding an h100 refurb into the build and trying to maximise airflow to cool 2 R9 290's.


EDIT: On my phone so no fancy basket. I was thinking the akasa ak-fn063 140mm for 2 in the front and 1 in the back and then 2 of the same in 120mm for the h100. The 2 140's should make less noise than 3 120's yeah? It also looks like I'm going to have my h100 as an exhaust as otherwise id have 5 intakes and only 1 exhaust


This is the three pack of the 140
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-003-AK&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=2665

And this is the three pack of the 120
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-002-AK&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=2665
 
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I personal have 5 bitfenix spectre pro's in my build and they are very quiet. I tend to run them at 1000rpm else they can be a bit noisy but overall performance is very good for intake/exhausts.

I use Gentle typhoon 1850's for my radiator fans but I understand they are discontinued so CorsairSP's or wait for new noctua fans to come out soon?
 
Yeah I've come to the conclusion that my cpu cooler is probably the main culprit. I wouldn't mind a bit more airflow though to be honest since the spectres are only raged at 50cfm. Noise is becoming less of an issue as I've just started to use my headset more. Kinda forgot I had one as I was never using it. I was thinking the corsair's for the h100.
 
But Noctuas are so GOOOOOOOOD!!! :D

IMO:
Corsair are the popular choice, either Performance or Quiet editions. They were pretty good, but Noctua offered better performance for the volume.
Silverstone probably the best budget performance fans.
Enermax are a close second and they have some lovely features in their stuff.

In my findings, the biggest things that affect noise are the things you're drawing/exhausting the air through, such as mesh, filters, radiators, grilles and so on.
Most fans tend to start getting noisy above 1000rpm anyway, though.

For the H100, I'd recommend 120mm, as 140s can overlap and half your airflow gets wasted instead of chanelled through the rad.
 
I know noctuas are good :D just the price of 3 140s and 2 120s is about £100 or pretty close and I find that hard to justify. But I guess it may be worth it....
 
Im running 6x Noctua Redux 120s at the moment at full pelt in my h440 and they're not too noisy at all
 
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I know noctuas are good :D just the price of 3 140s and 2 120s is about £100 or pretty close and I find that hard to justify. But I guess it may be worth it....
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I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I am still glad I stumped up for 5 Noctuas, albeit only a couple each month. Just wish I'd known the black ones would be available beforehand, heh heh!!

I did buy some of the others I mentioned, but ended up chucking most of them in favour of the Noctuas.
 
Well my H100 is installed and all the noise was coming from the Zalman cooler as the system is significantly quieter now. I'll see how loud the H100 gets when im gaming and then maybe work on slowly replacing the fans with Nocturas a couple at a time. I'll be spending the cost of cooler on fans for it at this rate haha
 
3 x 120 will give you more airflow than 2 x 140, in the front.

You can only have 1 fan in the rear so I'd make that a 140.

And for the H100 it's 2 x 120 no debate.

If you go for the cheaper Redux case fans (just as good, less accessories, paint etc), you could get the 2000RPM Industrial PWMs for the H100, for about the same total cost.

YOUR BASKET
2 x Noctua NF-F12 IndustrialPPC 2000RPM PWM 120mm High Performance Fan £20.99 (£41.98)
1 x Noctua NF-P14s REDUX 1200RPM 140mm Quiet Case Fan £13.49
3 x Noctua NF-S12B REDUX 1200RPM 120mm Quiet Case Fan £11.99 (£35.97)
Total : £101.03 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Man I hadn't even thought of doing all 120s apart from the rear. That seems like the way to go actually although would still leave me slightly more exhaust than intake assuming I do 3 intake front and 3 exhaust. I reckon I might go for that.

Actually it doesn't seem to move much more air than my current spectres. Might just get the ones for the h100
 
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to be honest everyone goes crazy on many fans.

if you do the maths you only need 2-3 Case fans max.

average fan pushes 40-60CFM (say 50 in this case)

2x 50CFM = 100CFM Intake
1x 50CFM = 50CFM exhuast.

now measure your case dimensions
your case is what?
2 foot long
3 foot high
1 foot wide?

6 cubic feet.

i only use 2x intakes no exhuast :)

100 / 60 (for seconds)

every second your case is getting 1.66666666667 CF of air flow so in 10 seconds 16.6 CF of air it replaces your whole case of air nearly 3 times over

i would suggest trying to find out yourself :)
 
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