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Started by Rybo | | 5 answers
Cougar fans for radiator?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
I'm curious about how you feel these fans would perform on a radiator? An h80i to be exact :) 
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October 12, 2014 4:48:19 PM

Thos would probably do worse than the stock fans on the H80i.

Check out the Silverstone AP123 and 121, along with the Noctua NF-F12.
September 30, 2014 5:46:36 AM

Deuce65 said:
Well, the gentle typhoons were discontinued a while back so are somewhat pricey to get now. If noise vs performance is your primary concern, than spring for the gentle typhoons. No other fan will push as much air through a radiator at a given noise level, and it isn't even particularly close.
The next level down are all worse than the GTs. Noiseblocker M12s are good, and the Noctua F12 is good as well. Both of those fans are going to come to more than 20 dollar per fan though so you would be better off getting the GTs anyways.
Below that you have fans like the sp120 which will perform fine of course, but won't be especially quiet (downright loud in comparison).

There are many people recommending the Cougar vortex fans, yes the package I posted was a bit different, but my plan is this.

I'm going to buy the 4 fan cougar pack, simply because I need silent case fans anyways, if they perform really poorly, I'll purchase some GT's I found on amazon for 20$ with free shipping.
September 30, 2014 12:11:22 AM

Well, the gentle typhoons were discontinued a while back so are somewhat pricey to get now. If noise vs performance is your primary concern, than spring for the gentle typhoons. No other fan will push as much air through a radiator at a given noise level, and it isn't even particularly close.
The next level down are all worse than the GTs. Noiseblocker M12s are good, and the Noctua F12 is good as well. Both of those fans are going to come to more than 20 dollar per fan though so you would be better off getting the GTs anyways.
Below that you have fans like the sp120 which will perform fine of course, but won't be especially quiet (downright loud in comparison).
September 29, 2014 9:42:32 PM

Deuce65 said:
Not very well. Cougar makes some nice fans for using as case fans and I would recommend them for that, but I tried several on radiators and they were all terrible.

What would you reccomend for radiators, thats rather quiet. The sp120 fans from corsair, I'd rather not purchase, but if I have to I probably will.
I noticed a lot of people reccomending gentle typhoons, but I could only find them on amazon for 20$ + 5$shipping which is a bit ridiculous for 1.
September 29, 2014 9:17:16 PM

Not very well. Cougar makes some nice fans for using as case fans and I would recommend them for that, but I tried several on radiators and they were all terrible.

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