Bryan Dale

I'm looking to buy several 120mm fans, but I want something that has a good balance between CFM and dBA. It looks to me like the Xigmateks are pretty good, but I haven't done a whole lot of looking/comparing yet.

hollywood406

Good Question, I'm interested in the same thing. I want to upgrade (at least) my CPU fan. I'm presently using a Scythe Mugen-2 cooler with the Scythe fan that came with it. It's rated at 74.25cfm and is very quiet at 26.5 dBA I want to try something with a little more cfm and as quiet as I can get it.

I found that the Scythe Slipstream series seems to have a balance of good airflow and low noise, particularly the Scythe SY1225SL12SH 120mm "Slipstream" it flows 110+ cfm at 37 dBA. At least this is the one that I'm going to try.

Another is the Aerocool XtremeTurbine 120mm Black Case Fan It's specs are a respectable 90 cfm at 32 dBA

The Scythe Slipstream is a lot cheaper at about $9 to the Aerocool Extreme Turbine's $18

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I have 2 Scythe "slipstream" 120's. They are fairly quiet and move some good air. The Ultra Kaze's on the other hand... leaf blower.

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Bryan Dale

yeah, so far the Scythe and Xigmateks are looking pretty promising. Maybe if I do enough research I'll make a graph representing all the data.

Bryan Dale

^^^^^but that could take me a while

spaceballsrules

Scythe S-Flex series fans, no question. They have the Sony fluid dynamic bearings, are very quiet, and last forever. They also have very good static pressure for 25mm fans.

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From everything I have read/heard, the Sycythe Slipstreams are great fans for case airflow. Seems they lack the static pressure for direct cooling (course this may only be true for water cooling). But the S-Flex seem to come across as great fans and the Yateloons on a fan controller seem to be good too.

again, I have not had any experience with these, my current case only has 6 80mm fans in it and I cant wait to get rid of it.

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doat

I have 4 high speed yate loons on a fan controller and even when i turn those things down to almost off my temps do not increase at all. I just turned off all my fans except for the exhaust right behind the cpu cooler and my temps actually dropped a degree from 34C to 33C. I have been debating on getting 140mm fans like the slipstreams or the ultra kazes but i am torn between those two.

Melcar

The medium speed Yate Loons are excellent fans. The Zalman fans are also good, but a bit hard to come by. The Thermaltake Thunderblades are also good. If you want high pressure fans, you can't beat the Panaflos (do the 7V mod and they're whisper quiet).

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Just purchased some San Ace 1011's from newark.com that are top of the line but they will cost you $19.