Just swapped fans...

FrannoBaz · 6 May 2007 at 22:57

Just swapped my Thermaltake blue LED Rear Fan (standard on the Thermaltake Shark) with an akasa amber blade 120mm quiet fan

... the difference in noise is unbelievable....my thermaltake blue fan sounded like a hurricane.... this Akasa is keeping my CPU cooler than my Thermaltake Fan and its about half as loud.

Time to buy a Noctua 120 Ultra Quiet 1200Rpm for the front, and then a Kama-Bay with another Noctua 120 for the 5.25" drive bays

p4radox · 6 May 2007 at 23:45

Why buy Noctuas for the front and an Amber for the back? The Noctuas are much better than Akasa Ambers, you should have got a Noctua for the rear too.

FrannoBaz · 6 May 2007 at 23:48

£££

... havnt got my 8800GTX yet, currently Running a Core 2 Duo E6600, 2GB Ballistix DDR2, P5N32-E Motherboard setup with a 7600GT

FrannoBaz · 6 May 2007 at 23:51

does anyone know whether the Arrowhead UltraSoft fan pins fit in the Noctua 120mm 1200rpm?

Amidar · 7 May 2007 at 00:29

FrannoBaz said:
does anyone know whether the Arrowhead UltraSoft fan pins fit in the Noctua 120mm 1200rpm?

They come with screws & rubber mounting pins as standard

mishima · 7 May 2007 at 09:21

I'd personally just get some Yate Loons, they are far cheaper and outperform the Noctua's. I have just switched out the Scythe that came with my Kama bay (see project link) and its great!!

WJA96 · 7 May 2007 at 10:29

And Yate-Loons are about £6 each too. Much cheaper than the others, and better.

Lots of shops don't stock them as the realised profit margin is too low.

eg.

If you buy a fan in at £3 and sell it for £6 you've made a gross profit of 100% but that 100% is £3.

If you buy a fan in at £7 and sell it for £11, even though the you've only made a gross profit of 58%, you've made £4 profit.

So for every £11 fan you sell, you make an extra £1 over the cheaper, better one, so it's more profitable in the real world to sell higher value components.