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lilxvietxboi
12-30-04, 04:41 PM
The rotter fan in my SSF is reallly loud that I had to unplug it and leave the side panels open instead.

Its one of the weird slim rectangular fans that have a pipe with fins that spins around. It moves air really well, but for the past few months its getting louder and louder. I know on regualr 80x80mm fan you can open and add wd-40 to make it quieter and run better, but I wouldn't know how to do that with this type of fan.

Can anyone help me silence that stupid fan?
Fr3ak
12-30-04, 05:48 PM
Why don't you get a new silent fan instead?
lilxvietxboi
12-30-04, 09:31 PM
Can't really find these fans anywhere.. theyre not regular
Aphex_Tom_9
12-30-04, 09:48 PM
maybe it's got dust building up in it or something
Captain Slug
01-02-05, 12:40 PM
You mean a cage blower? A few SFF cases use long cage blowers as an exhaust since they're fairly compact and efficient.
Yuriman
01-04-05, 09:06 AM
Blowers are not hard to find, you just wont find many at your normal pc websites.

Btw, I have a torin blower here, and it has a plastic plate you can take off to oil it. Look under stickers, they like to put them there.
Kid Payne
01-23-05, 11:25 AM
Why don't you get a new silent fan instead?

I have the same fan and the same problem. Can you show me where to get a silent blower?
Sentential
01-23-05, 11:26 AM
Do you have a pic? Im sure if we saw what it looked like we could make a suggestion
Kid Payne
01-23-05, 11:37 AM
http://firingsquad.com/media/article_image.asp?fs_article_id=1225&pic_id=09


It is the thing under the PSU with the black plug.
Sentential
01-23-05, 12:09 PM
http://firingsquad.com/media/article_image.asp?fs_article_id=1225&pic_id=09


It is the thing under the PSU with the black plug.
Hmmm its one of those crossblade fans. I think Xoxide has a few of them
Sentential
01-23-05, 12:12 PM
Found it...

http://www.jab-tech.com/customer/product.php?productid=2663&partner=froogle
Kid Payne
01-23-05, 12:49 PM
Thanks Sentential for looking for this fan.

While you were looking I guess, I got so sick of the noise that I went and took out the back blower. So far there is no change in temps. I read somewhere before I bought this case that the back blower did little to nothing to cool the case, and I think they were right.
Sentential
01-23-05, 12:51 PM
Thanks Sentential for looking for this fan.

While you were looking I guess, I got so sick of the noise that I went and took out the back blower. So far there is no change in temps. I read somewhere before I bought this case that the back blower did little to nothing to cool the case, and I think they were right.
You could always mod your case and add 2 Axial fans instead of that blower
Kid Payne
01-23-05, 10:28 PM
You could always mod your case and add 2 Axial fans instead of that blower

Yes, you got it right again! I'm trying to see if I could add a fan or two where the blower was. From what I can tell so far, I think it'll work. I just have to work out the details. I'll finally get to use my Dremell...maybe...lol.