Best quiet fans?

OCMunkee · Apr 20, 2004

What are the best fans that balance between CFM rating and dBA rating? -leaning more towards quiet though.

Anyone have any particular favourites?

archilochus · Apr 20, 2004

Papst, Panaflo and Sanyo Denki come to mind...What do you have available to you down under?

Highlander · Apr 20, 2004

The best, (if you can get them) are SilenX. They have very good cfm/noise ratings (off the top of my head, 80mm 27cfm @ 14dBa) which is pretty darn good. They also do 92 and 120s with similar noise levels and high cfm (37 for 92 and 50+ for 120 *i think*)
Not sure if you can get them down under though.....
Or panaflo if you can get them, they have good ratios as well

archilochus · Apr 20, 2004

SilentX fans, are Papst fans Low volted. OUCH on the price too.

MaxPowers_68 · Apr 20, 2004

archilochus said:
SilentX fans, are Papst fans Low volted. OUCH on the price too.

Very true

Mr.Radar · Apr 20, 2004

Actually, they're Adda fans (Adda makes the Hypro bearing, and has patents on it)

intx · May 13, 2004

does this mean I can buy ADDA fans and just low volt them? Cause the 120mm silenx fans are expensive.

[TA]Cat · May 13, 2004

Thermaltake stock orange fans have 32CFM @ 21db, decent and fairly cheap, like a few bucks.

Vantec Stealth are pretty much the same too.

It's really a balance of CFM vs db vs money you wanna dish out for a fan

l33t · May 13, 2004

I orderd some SilenX fans, can't wait for them to come.

Redstone · May 13, 2004

I would be willing to pay double what it cost for a good silent fan. MUST HAVE SILENT COMPUTER.
Luckily, panaflos are cheap and virtually silent in a big steel antec 1080 case. Sometmes when I walk up to the desk, I am not sure whether my computer is even on.

syberspy9 · May 13, 2004

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=296319

Vidda · May 13, 2004

AcoustiFans are pretty good, so are Nexus. But I'm more of a member over are SilentPCReview so they may not have enough CFMs for you guys. Of course like veryone else has said Panaflo's are really quiet. Papst are OK but they make a sort of a clicking noise. I haven't had any experience with SilenX but I have not heard any bad reports about them.

[TA]Cat · May 13, 2004

Oh nice a Canadian SilenX reseller. Thanks for the cross reference.

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