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snips86x

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Looking to change my intake fans on the case & H100i to help with cooling a reference GPU and to help with potential crossfire.

Looking at these, but really not sure. Does anyone have any first hand experience with these? Pushed towards the Apaches/Piranhas as they are cheaper but need first hand input. Looking at static pressure here as I'm aiming to go crossfire reference 290s eventually. I know the Noctuas have a high static pressure, but at £20 a unit, they are not cheap!

YOUR BASKET
4 x Noctua NF-F12 IndustrialPPC 2000RPM PWM 120mm High Performance Fan £20.99 (£83.96)
4 x Akasa AK-FN058 Apache Black Super Silent 120mm Fan - 4 Pin PWM £12.98 (£51.92)
4 x Akasa 120mm Piranha high performance PWM air ripper blade fan £6.95 (£27.80)
Total : £172.38 (includes shipping : £7.25).

 
Noctua fan-boy (literally) here...

In my Corsair 500R, I have a pair of F12s exhausting up through my older H100. I tried the SP120s and they were both 10-18db louder and a good 5-10ºC warmer on all three settings than my Noctuas currently give me.

Make of that what you will.
 
Morfinel said:
I have Piranha and it's very good other you can look at is sp range from corsair
http://techicize.com/akasa-piranha-ak-fn072/3/
Where did you get 6.95 on piranha? If that's correct Im getting 2 more of those to replace corsair af led they are bad
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They were the price showing on the website, but appear to have been taken down now - apparently the price was incorrect :rolleyes:

What about the Apache's?

ttaskmaster said:
Noctua fan-boy (literally) here...

In my Corsair 500R, I have a pair of F12s exhausting up through my older H100. I tried the SP120s and they were both 10-18db louder and a good 5-10ºC warmer on all three settings than my Noctuas currently give me.

Make of that what you will.
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The new ones look mint, but at £20 each, they are seriously expensive. It would also be too much to invest in if they turned out to be crap!

Really not a fan of their previous colour scheme either.
 
snips86x said:
The new ones look mint, but at £20 each, they are seriously expensive. It would also be too much to invest in if they turned out to be crap!
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I find that cost is in the build quality and the gorgeous extras.
They come with things like extension cables and Low Noise Adapters that are very well shrouded in heavy, hard-wearing rubber, just like the main power cable. The connections are solid as anything and the quality just feels so much better.

By contrast, my Enermax fans do well enough and the blades pop out for easy cleaning, but are noticably noisier at the same revs and they *feel* like a ten quid piece of kit rather than something that's gonna do what it says on the box.
The SP120s were somewhere in between, but felt overpriced for what they turned out to be.
 
ttaskmaster said:
I find that cost is in the build quality and the gorgeous extras.
They come with things like extension cables and Low Noise Adapters that are very well shrouded in heavy, hard-wearing rubber, just like the main power cable. The connections are solid as anything and the quality just feels so much better.

By contrast, my Enermax fans do well enough and the blades pop out for easy cleaning, but are noticably noisier at the same revs and they *feel* like a ten quid piece of kit rather than something that's gonna do what it says on the box.
The SP120s were somewhere in between, but felt overpriced for what they turned out to be.
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That helps a lot, but depressing to think I'd be splashing out £80 on case fans :eek: Wife will not approve!
 
What is wrong with Corsair fans? A bit overpriced but ok. You pay what you get for :p
Got my self a twin pack of 120m led fans for 15 pounds here at a local store
 
snips86x said:
That helps a lot, but depressing to think I'd be splashing out £80 on case fans :eek: Wife will not approve!
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Just realised my set-up would have cost somewhere in the region of £180, heh heh!!

You can find cheap second-hand ones in the well-known (but unmentionable) places. I scored a pair of P120s for about £7 each. Just the fans, though - No boxes or cables.

Failing that, upgrade to WIFE 3.5 Beta!! :D
 
Piranha have 3.04 mmH20 static pressure so less than the Noctua's but I think for more than half the price they are the best bang for buck option.
 
Do not buy IndustrialPPC range unless you are sure your motherboard/fan controller PWM works as they don't work with a lot of voltage/resistor based control - Noctua to their credit added a FAQ page confirming this after I asked.
 
I just got a phirana delivered today at that price of 6.95, seems OK,I bought mine to try and blow some cool air on to my gtx670 as its throttling a bit in this warmer weather
Haven't noticed much difference to be honest, but I set it too run at higher speed in the bios and I can't here it, comes with anti vibration rubber things.!!
 
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