Of fan technologies can be found in our recent article, Anatomy For users who are interested, a more technical discussion Fans produce noise - the faster the fan, the more noise it producesįor our purposes, the best fan is the one that pushes the most air for the.Fans are designed to push air - the faster the fan, the more air it.Not need to know how a fan works to get the most out of this article. We have kept theory to a minimum, so you do This roundup is primarily a summary of our test results with a few interesting Noctua, a highly reputed Papst, and a couple dark horses from ARX. We also looked at an Antec Tri-Cool (whichĬomes stock in many Antec cases), some much hyped fans from Scythe and Now, we’veĮxamined another half dozen (or a dozen, depending on how you count) fans,Ī surprising number of which are suitable for a quiet system.Īs with the last roundup, we started with the Nexus that has been our fan Was published about two weeks ago, but that only looked at 80mm fans. We usually recommend using a 120mm fan if possible - but which one to Same cooling at a lower speed, and thus a lower noise level. Or, from a silencing perspective, a larger fan can provide the Means that hot components can be kept cooler, allowing greater headroom for The advantage of the larger size shouldĬome as no surprise to most: A larger fan produces more airflow. Were standard and a case that accepted larger fans was worthy There will be a new methodology article coming soon.Īlthough 120mm fans are now commonplace, it wasn’t long ago that 80mm fans We’ve updated airflow dataįor some but not all fans only fans that fared well acoustically were retested Revision to improve accuracy and repeatability. Our fan airflow measurement system has recently undergone a major Competition was tough, and it wasn’t easy to decide which fans we liked most. This time, we look at 120mm fans from Nexus, Noctua, Scythe, EBM/Papst, Antec and ARX.

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