I ordered a bunch of these fans for both my OCUK system and my first home built system. So I had 4 brand new fans in total ... I installed them at the same time. One system has been running every day for the last couple of months. the other has only been running for about 3 weeks. I opened up the case on one sytem and found that the fan had blown oil over pretty much everything in sight. I was a bit shocked at this so checked out all other fans. Even on the new system that had only been running for about 3 weeks there was oil from ALL fans around the fan housing ... Each and every Sharkoon fan I bought has leaked oil !!!! These were using the "SILENT 7 Volt" leads so they wer not running flat out. Very P*$£&*d off ... stay away from them !!!
Sharkoon fans
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Of eight silent eagles i had, 5 x 3 pin 2000 rpm models and 3 x modular cabled variants. One of the 2000 rpm fans did leak a little oil, just a tiny drop that dried up on the frame. Stopped using it after that, but the rest were fine.
Yep, the 2000 rpm versions are extremely loud, a fan controller is a must for those. However, i found the modular variants to be extremely quiet, i ran them via pwm with a splitter cable, 400-1200 rpm, had two on a TRUE and one as a case exhaust, they coped admirably on my i7 @4ghz, 71-76c per core under IBT load, replaced them though with akasa vipers for the cooler and yate loons for the case.