Need new case fans.....

[spathotan]

I am currently running 3 Enermax Enobal-bearing fans, which are made for silence not air flow. What I need is something significantly stronger but not much louder, figured I would ask and see what all the cool people are using before I went and bought random fans. Ive come to notice the CFM/db raitings on Newegg and what not are wrong.

 

[zipz0p]

I think a lot of people like Scythe S-flex fans. I haven't used those, but I really like my Noctua's NF-P12 fans, but they are expensive - about $20 a pop. They push a lot of air and are pretty quiet (I can't hear them at all over my other Antec case fans). Check out Anandtech's review of my cooler (which uses this fan): http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3268

 

[Hawkeye22]

I use the Scythe S-flex and the Silverstone FM121. Both work well, unfortunately both are kind of pricey.

 

[spathotan]

Hmm. Ive seen the scythe s-flexes thrown around in a few threads, maybe ill check them out. Although I think there are a few different versions of them, different nomenclature.

 

[Hawkeye22]

The different model S-Flex have different CFM ratings.

 

[spathotan]

That silverstone one is preety nice...$17 is a little too much for a fan though, not looking forward to spend $60 on 3 fans.

 

[zipz0p]

The different model S-Flex have different CFM ratings.

I'm not 100% sure about this, but looking at them in Newegg, the different CFM ratings also had different noise ratings, which makes me think that they are all precisely the same, but some have resistors in their power inputs to keep the voltage to the fan lower and thus the fan speed and noise lower. My guess is the higher CFM rated fans are only pricier because they think most customers will not try to modify the fans.... this is just a guess, though.