Tator Tot's Big "Quiet" 120mm & 140mm Fan Round-Up - Page 14

Which version of Thermalright's site are you using?

It's been listed with specs for awhile, for me at least.

http://www.thermalright.com/products/index.php?act=data&cat_id=16&id=201

I have X-Mas shopping to do, but a new TY-140, TY-141, TY-143, & TY-147 are all fans I'd like to pick up.

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Originally Posted by Kip69 

Have you met that other fan guy?
Here
More fan info than I ever knew existed...

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Originally Posted by ivanlabrie 

Very nice thread...
Give this one a look.

I watch all the fan threads. While I'm going to be exploring the 3 aspects of performance that are easily (and scientifically) testable; I do enjoy watching those heatsink comparisons.

Though, using a fan on a Heatsink leaves out an important observation; the effect static pressure has on temps.

Generally when you have a high static pressure & low noise fan (Noctua NF-F12 PWM) you can run into the issue of the fan actually performing worse on a heatsink or lower density radiator than a fan with lower static pressure but more airflow (Noctua NF-P12 PWM.)

The opposite can happen as well.

Black Ice GTX series rad would be a good place for a Noctua NF-F12 PWM, since the high static pressure would let the fan overcome the restrictions of the radiator, and cool it better.

On the inverse, a Black Ice GTS series rad would be a good place for the Noctua NF-P12 PWM. Since that fan has more airflow than pressure (when scaled for comparison) and this radiator is designed for that specific scenario.

In the current market, the need for restrictive surfaces is high to some degree; but the actual demand is low since we've been slowly moving to more silence oriented computing.

The T.R.U.E. Rev A was far more restrictive as a heatsink than the Rev B or Rev C and performed better because of it (after you lapped that awful base at least) but that made it expensive to produce and less appealing to some folks.

Same with the Inferno vs Silver Arrow.

Though, on air cooling, it makes less sense to have super restrictive heatsinks; as you just have to cool one sources. Though I'd rather have a Black Ice GTX 360 to cool a CPU & GPU system with Push/Pull high pressure fans, then use more radiators & more fans.

If you're sure you want to make spreadsheets & graphs for me, I'd totally let you under-take that job!

I haven't actually put up my numbers yet. I'm holding off until I could actually do the graphing myself, as I have about half the fans tested at the moment.

Thanks man. I'm doing more fan taking-apart & testing at the moment. Probably some more writing tonight as well.

Currently I'm fighting to learn Google Docs to get the graphs setup properly and be able to display in a post on OCN.