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Best 120mm case fan
- Thread starter benen
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Antec just announced some very nice fans. You can see some reviews of them at legitreviews and on Youtube. I think they're called truquiet or something like that.
Cougar also makes an outstanding 120mm PWM fan. I have 11 of them in total installed in 2 systems and I love them for their performance to noise ratio. Plus they have over 500,000hr MTBF so they'll likely last until my next upgrade.
Cougar also makes an outstanding 120mm PWM fan. I have 11 of them in total installed in 2 systems and I love them for their performance to noise ratio. Plus they have over 500,000hr MTBF so they'll likely last until my next upgrade.
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I am partial to the Gentle Typhoon series fans if cost isn't a problem. Great design, quiet, with very high quality bearings in them. But you're going to pay $20+ each for them, if you can even find them in stock. For some other good quality fans, the Thermalright TR-FDB series fans are great choices. They use the Sony FDB bearing package in them, which pretty much assures a good long life. I would go with the TR-FDB-1300 or TR-FDB-1000 fans for case fan use. And SVC (which I linked to) has them on sale for $8.49 each, which is a steal for a FDB bearing fan.
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I'm a big fan of the Gentle Typhoons and Scythe fans in general.
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Listen to mudd... Man knows a thing or two about fans. 
I'd recommend you the fans I use on my case (San Ace 9SG1212P1G01), but then again; I am a crazy person and don't mind the fact that my computer room sounds like an airport at times.
I'd recommend you the fans I use on my case (San Ace 9SG1212P1G01), but then again; I am a crazy person and don't mind the fact that my computer room sounds like an airport at times.
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Best you say....
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It's going in the lounge so volume is really important
I'm getting old so I'm pretty sensitive to noise. For the volume of air, nothing beats the Gentle Typhoon.
In general any 120 cm fan with rpm above 1000 is to noisy for me. The GT 500 rpm is virtually noiseless. The 1150 rpm GT moves so much air that the noise you hear is the noise of moving air. I typically install a fan controller so that the rpm is around the 850-900 rpm range.
Another favourite nearly noiseless fan of mine is the Scythe 800 rpm with Sony's FDB.
For me I'd rather have 2 quiet 800 rpm fans than 1 noisy 1400 rpm fan. Most GOOD 800-1000 rpm fans I've encountered have been pretty quiet.
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Are you MrDeltaFan by any chance? I've seen your comments on some of my videos.
It's going in the lounge so volume is really important
In all seriousness... Your best bet is the Gentle Typhoons or some of the Thermalright fans muddoktor recommended.
Those crazy fans were added there just for kicks.
Are you MrDeltaFan by any chance? I've seen your comments on some of my videos.
That MrDeltaFan is I'm not mistaken is Nothor, he did upload tons of this fans videos since he joined here.
