Best, Cheapest, and Most Quiet Case Fans?

[Master Mind]

hey,

ive just purchased a CoolerMaster 830 Evolution and it's on the way to me in about a week or so. this case holds up to 9 120mm fans, 4 of them sit on the side panel.. i have a choice to put 4 120mm fans on there or a CrossBlower which i think are around 300mm.

what is the cheapest and most effective/fastest/most quiet fans i can buy... i had a look at these fans[/URL
but i don't really wanna go out and buy 5 more of these if i don't know how they are going to perform....
if i fill the whole case (9 fans) i will only need 5 more as it come with 2 already and my current case also has 2 of them.

cheers,
Master Mind

 

[ADE]

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/4...FM_iXtrema_Pro_Fan_IXP-76-18.html?id=6WqNyDhS

 

[elitehacker]

LOL, you buy fans!! If you are a scavenger like me who goes out and pick up other peoples thrown out systems, then you'd would NEVER need to buy fans. Its actually very profitable, the stupidity of some people is astounding, like a found a perfectly good P4 system bar a hard drive that had a boot error. -_-"

 

[ADE]

Do what I always recommend, take the parts and sell them on ebay!

 

[elitehacker]

WOW, we must be brothers , I have made $AU2600 in 6 months doing that, that's how I funded my gaming system with $AU1800 left over.

 

[jedijeff123]

the bigger the fan and lower the RPM the better.

 

[ADE]

lol. Good job mate!

 

[ADE]

the bigger the fan and lower the RPM the better.

sorry to double post. but also the thickness. Extremely hi profile fans like the one I posted do both.

 

[ETSA]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835129033

good fans...

 

[ADE]

only normal CFM and very loud. Mine is much better.

 

[diduknowthat]

only normal CFM and very loud. Mine is much better.

But yours only move 19CFM of air while the antec one moves up to 60CFM, big difference there.

 

[ADE]

19? mine i listed was 90CFM at 20dBA.

 

[ceewi1]

The problem with SilenX is that their rating system is very deceptive. 18dBA & 90CFM actually means 18dBA at minimum starting voltage, and 90CFM at 12V. It doesn't mean 18dBA and 90CFM at the same time.

Custom PCs reviewed a SilenX fan rated at 90CFM & 14dBA, and found in practice it moved 72CFM of air at 30dBA.

 

[ADE]

reviews say otherwise.

 

[ETSA]

you are wrong ade...

deal with it...

 

[diduknowthat]

19? mine i listed was 90CFM at 20dBA.

My bad, misread it, but i still highly doubt it can pump out that much air with such little dba.

 

[Master Mind]

Bingo!!!

bingo!. i think i found a winner.... pulling off 34cfm for 8 dBA!!! http://www.nintek.com.au/x/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=7661
im thinking of buying just 5 (AU$30 each) of these costing me around AU$150 plus postage and a 5% discount.

what do you people think about these fans, and am i missing something because iam very confused about the 8dBA sound for the Air Flow it lets out lol....

Master Mind

 

[ADE]

It makes sense how the fan I listed can do this. Its extremely thick! covers much more area than a regular fan!

 

[Master Mind]

alrighty heres what i purchased: CoolerMaster Stacker 830 Evolution Black, Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme Heatsink, 5 x these silent fans to fill my case: Noctua NF-S12-800 - 120mm Fan, 34cfm, 8 dBA, and one of these for the HeatSink: Scythe S-FLEX 120mm Fan SFF21E. i also purchased a 12g tube of Artic Silver 5 to re-do my cpu when my new heatsink arrives

that new case can hold 9 fans so i figured i would take good use of the space

costing me just under AU$700. im gonna do some serious overclocking to my cpu and gfx card once i get this stuff.

Master Mind

 

[Chris Chan]

Noctua and Scythe fans are great decisions. They are favourites over at silentpcreview.