Quieter PC Fans
05 October 2003, 07:18 PM
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Does anybody know of any pc fans or anything along those lines which will reduce the amount of noise generated by the pc? Occasionally I like to leave the pc switched on overnight downloading some big files but i get grief from my girlfriend over the amount of noise it makes... any suggestions? 
06 October 2003, 09:05 AM
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LOL Dom 
, the correct Papst are just as good and quiet as the correct panaflo's in normal use I have lots both.
If you don't want to spend the earth, look at getting some of the laser blue LED colermaster fans on Ebuyer, they are cheap at around £5 a shot and are quiet anough IMO. Combine that with a decent heatsink and fan combo for you CPU (which in a normal system is prob the biggest source of noise anyway) and you should be happy.
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, the correct Papst are just as good and quiet as the correct panaflo's in normal use I have lots both.If you don't want to spend the earth, look at getting some of the laser blue LED colermaster fans on Ebuyer, they are cheap at around £5 a shot and are quiet anough IMO. Combine that with a decent heatsink and fan combo for you CPU (which in a normal system is prob the biggest source of noise anyway) and you should be happy.
Cheers,
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06 October 2003, 09:30 AM
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panaflo L1A fans are the quietest 80mm per flow of air
i buy from Dorothy...
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=7479
As said... 120mm fans are quieter than 80mm, if u run them at a lower voltage... but if ur looking for a simple solution, then go for same size fans
NMB are great fans too..
i have a NMB 92mm (cooling cpu using a Zalman Flower cooler), a Panaflow 80mm (cooling the graphics card using a Zalman Heatpipe cooler), a NMB 120mm intake fan, a NMB 120mm exhaust fan - all controlled by a Zalman multifan controller
The noisiest parts of the system in order were:
cpu fan
case fans
graphics card fan
powersupply fan
i buy from Dorothy...
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=7479
As said... 120mm fans are quieter than 80mm, if u run them at a lower voltage... but if ur looking for a simple solution, then go for same size fans
NMB are great fans too..
i have a NMB 92mm (cooling cpu using a Zalman Flower cooler), a Panaflow 80mm (cooling the graphics card using a Zalman Heatpipe cooler), a NMB 120mm intake fan, a NMB 120mm exhaust fan - all controlled by a Zalman multifan controller
The noisiest parts of the system in order were:
cpu fan
case fans
graphics card fan
powersupply fan
06 October 2003, 04:20 PM
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Stick a big heatsink on it that can take 80mm fans. Then you can have a big,slow ,quiet fan. You may even be able to get a fan adapter for your existing heatsink so it can take a bigger fan.
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Another vote for the Coolermaster LED fans here.
About a fiver each for 80mm fan from overclockers. Reasonable throughput of air and quiet at 25dba.
Papst are renowned for this but more expensive.
£14 for a 19dba fan with slightly lower throughput.
Joolz
About a fiver each for 80mm fan from overclockers. Reasonable throughput of air and quiet at 25dba.
Papst are renowned for this but more expensive.
£14 for a 19dba fan with slightly lower throughput.
Joolz
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