Member Reviews: SilenX IXP-76-18 Case Fan

The Silenx IXP-76-18 is just what you would expect from a think 120mm fan. It pushes TONS of air. It pushes more air than any other fan I have seen, but at a price. It is extremely loud at full speed. The specs listed on the box Accessories The fan itself The IXP-76-18 is able to push the amount of air that it does because of 2 things. The first being that it is obviously a thick fan. The second is a little bit hard to notice. The motor is much smaller than other fans. This allows the fan blades to be bigger which pushes more air. Being thick, the fan has some compatibility limitations. It will not fit on most heatsinks that use clamps. However, it should fit on heatsinks...

I have four of these fans in my CM Storm trooper case (2x front intake, 2x side intake) and I'm very pleased with them. I have them hooked up to a sunbeam fan controller and at half power they still move decent air but are incredibly quiet. At full power, they are definitely loud... to my ear they sound more like 30 dba than 18. However, they're not so-loud-it's-unbearable... they're just loud enough that you should make sure you either have a fan controller or a low noise adapter; you would not want to run these things 24/7 at full power. Definitely nowhere near the headache inducing levels of some of the noisier fans out there though (Scythe Ultra Kaze / Delta fans / Tornado fans). I...