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roble   05-03-2003 at 10:11:54 PM

Not overclocking, but building a busy/warm case (2 hard drives, 3GHz CPU, Radeon 9800,...) and willing to spend a little extra for things to be stable and not contribute more noise to an already noisy configuration. Any recommendations?

thx.

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Teq   05-03-2003 at 10:20:16 PM
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Lately I've been using these...
<A HREF="http://www.directron.com/80l1a.html" target="_new">http://www.directron.com/80l1a.html</A>

Unless you live in a sound proof room, you probably won't even hear them running and they do move a fair bit of air. They come without connectors, so you will have to do a little "inventing" to get them hooked up to a drive connector (yellow plug wire to fan red wire, black to black) but beyond that they are excellent fans.


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upec   05-04-2003 at 05:58:23 AM
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I would go with Sanyo Denki fans.

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error_911   05-04-2003 at 07:36:37 PM
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PANAFLO or Papst

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namek0   05-04-2003 at 10:17:42 PM
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These 80mm fans:
http://www.crazypc.com/Merchant2/m [...] _Code=5650

used to be $1.50 each, but recently they'e gone up to $2.00 each (still pretty cheap) They used to say 24db, but now they're saying 28.3db, not sure if they switched "generic" brands or what. But I have a few panaflo 80mm fans, and I recently bought 8 of these generics from crazy pc.

I'm really anal about sound, and I can't tell any difference between these two, except for the price :P

- I also noticed just now that these generic ones are now sleeve bearing, instead of the dual ball bearing they had not 2 weeks ago, I guess they ran out of the really great ones
It's all good ^_^<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by namek0 on 05/04/03 03:19 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

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Teq   05-04-2003 at 10:57:47 PM
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It wouldn't surprise me to see Panaflo fans sold as under "generic" or "non-name". Panasonic is a huge company with more than one line of products, and they do sell a lot of "off brand" stuff to other companies.


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