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I don't know if there's already a similar thread on Techpowerup for this but I thought it'd be a great idea to have a Reference thread for people looking for specfic types of case fans in a stickied thread.
Here are the 4 types of Case Fans I'm looking into at the moment and I bet Lots of people care about this too for good air flow and cooling:
EDIT:
Here, to help you guys advise me even better. Nothing better than pictures:
http://imgur.com/gallery/m4nsN
I specifically need to change the 2x 120mm intake fans at the bottom right and the 140mm extra cooling fan for the GPUs in sli. I also want to know your advice on the aerocool deadsilence 140mm fan I have at the front. I read somewhere it's better to have High Static pressure fans for radiators (at the top of my 240mm radiator I have 2x CORSAIR blue led AP 140mm fans) If I got it right, I should have bought 2x SP models instead of APs.
I'd also like to know whether the orientation of my fans is good. (as in should I change from exhaust to intake or vice versa)
Anyhow. This should prove to be an interesting thread
Here are the 4 types of Case Fans I'm looking into at the moment and I bet Lots of people care about this too for good air flow and cooling:
- Intake Fans
- Exhaust Fans
- Silent Fans
- Direcitonnal fans
- As of now, I'm looking for the very best (price is not a problem) fans for each category. In fact, I need a very good 140mm fan to shoot cool air onto my GTX cards in SLI (that is a fan facing the front of the graphics cards inside the case, NOT on the side of the graphics card as I have a MODDED CASE with a WINDOW on the side (no room for side fan because of that)
- I'm also looking for the very best 140mm INTAKE fan for the front of my PC case (there are a few small objects obstructing the path of the air being pulled in from the 140mm fan at that location which is why I think something capable of pushing the cool air into the case past the cables that are in the way (few of em) is important
- I'm also looking for 2x 120mm INTAKE fans (case fans) to pull in cool air. I need these 2 to be "not so direcitonnal" they just need to be very good at spreading cool air efficiently inside the case (in a wide pattern)
EDIT:
Here, to help you guys advise me even better. Nothing better than pictures:
http://imgur.com/gallery/m4nsN
I specifically need to change the 2x 120mm intake fans at the bottom right and the 140mm extra cooling fan for the GPUs in sli. I also want to know your advice on the aerocool deadsilence 140mm fan I have at the front. I read somewhere it's better to have High Static pressure fans for radiators (at the top of my 240mm radiator I have 2x CORSAIR blue led AP 140mm fans) If I got it right, I should have bought 2x SP models instead of APs.
I'd also like to know whether the orientation of my fans is good. (as in should I change from exhaust to intake or vice versa)
Anyhow. This should prove to be an interesting thread
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