Just added an additional Sharkoon 120mm fan to my case & I'm pretty impressed by the low noise level so I was wondering if it's worth changing the 3 fans that are pre installed in the P180. Putting these fans on anything other than low setting makes them pretty noisy so I'm hoping repacing them should lower the temp and noise a bit. Anyone bothered doing this, is there much of a difference?
Worth changing the default fans in the Antec P180?
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I have 2 120mm YS Tech fans at the top and back of my antec P180 at 7v. they push a lot of air and are almost silent. The two default antec fans (the slim ones) that came with my case, I have one in the front (on high) and one over my graphics card (I cut the airflow thing to house a 120mm, and it work brilliantly).
This provides great cooling for me, though I know I should chuck a another 120mm in the bottom compartment of the case for the PSU to keep cool. As it is, the noisiest part of my setup is the damn mini fan on the DFI motherboard northbridge! So damn whiney!
Guess it's up to you really, depends what your going for. I think the default setup will provide good cooling, but you may want to adapt it.
This provides great cooling for me, though I know I should chuck a another 120mm in the bottom compartment of the case for the PSU to keep cool. As it is, the noisiest part of my setup is the damn mini fan on the DFI motherboard northbridge! So damn whiney!
Guess it's up to you really, depends what your going for. I think the default setup will provide good cooling, but you may want to adapt it.
Cheers, I've just ordered 2 additional Sharkoons so I'l see how that goes. Think I'll keep the larger default fan by the PSU as that doesn't seem to create much noise anyway. Have you got a picture of how you've put the fan over the graphics card? I'm using a vantec Spectrum Fan Card in one of the spare pci slots at the moment but there's an annoying backbround humm off it.Gamezy said:
Sorry but I don't have a digital camera at the minute (dying to get one, but student life is very poor).
Basically if you take a 120mm fan and open up the black air duct, you'll see the fan fits almost perfectly in width. I cut an octogon shape using the hole already there as a starting point, then just drilling some holes for the fan to be mounted. It's easy enough, and you'll be able to see what I did just using your imagination
A low profile (25mm width) fan fits perfectly mounted inside the black casing, and gives good cooling too.
Basically if you take a 120mm fan and open up the black air duct, you'll see the fan fits almost perfectly in width. I cut an octogon shape using the hole already there as a starting point, then just drilling some holes for the fan to be mounted. It's easy enough, and you'll be able to see what I did just using your imagination
A low profile (25mm width) fan fits perfectly mounted inside the black casing, and gives good cooling too.