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Watercooling 140mm fans for radiator - any recommendations?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by bdigital, 1 Feb 2012.

  1. bdigital

    bdigital Is re-building his PC again

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    Hey guys im going to be using a 14 0 rad in ny next build and I havnt decided which fans to use yet.

    They will probably be in a push pull config, hopefully low rpm

    Any thoughts?
     
  2. asura

    asura jack of all trades

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    Nidec Servo GentleTyphoon's on 120=>140 converters... sad but true.

    ...unless you can get your hands on some Sanyo Denki 109P1412M101's and undervolt them.
     
  3. Da_Rude_Baboon

    Da_Rude_Baboon What the?

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    Is the Thermalright TY-140 suitable for rads? They use it on their high end heatsinks but I'm not sure if it has the static pressure for use on radiators.
     
  4. legoman

    legoman breaker of things

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    Noise locker pk2's should do the trick. Though the phobya ones are meant to be good

    I've heard the newer typhoons make a Clicky sound which is pure fail
     
  5. Instagib

    Instagib Minimodder

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    I don't know how good Akasa Apache blades are in the 140mm flavour, but they're pretty good in 120mm and i'd like to think they keep their excellent performance through to the bigger size. Not a good basis for a reccomendation really.
     
  6. bdigital

    bdigital Is re-building his PC again

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    Which phobya ones?

    Cheers for the suggestions so far guys. Il do some research on the ones mentioned.

    Any others?

    Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk
     
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    mars-bar-man Side bewb.

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    When I had my 140mm in a rig I just used 2 1000RPM Yate Loons, worked beautifully and I couldn't hear them.
     
  8. Big Elf

    Big Elf Oh no! Not another f----ing elf!

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    I've got a couple of Noiseblocker PK2s for case fans. They're not bad for noise at full speed (slightly louder than AP-15s) and it's a smooth sounding wind noise. They do 'tick' very slightly at 5v but you have to be within a foot or so to hear it. As they're sleeve bearing fans they have noisy motors in a horizontal position.

    I don't know what they're like on rads though, I'd guess similar to AP-14s.
     
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    Akasa 14cm Viper/Apache (i know someone with these on their rad, works great)

    or

    Coolermaster Excalibur (12cm, so you would need adapters of some sort, but they are fast and have high pressure, which is what you want for a rad)
     
  11. bdigital

    bdigital Is re-building his PC again

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    so what did you get in the end?
     
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    thetrashcanman Angel headed hipsters

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    cheers :thumb: fixed :)
     
  16. TobletDanillio

    TobletDanillio Minimodder

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    It ok :thumb:
    what temps are you getting with that set up?
     
  17. bdigital

    bdigital Is re-building his PC again

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    nothing lol. I decided that another watercooled pc was not required at least until I had perfected the sig rig.

    So now the 140mm rads I bought are sitting around brand new in the box! I really must get round to ebaying them.
     
  18. thetrashcanman

    thetrashcanman Angel headed hipsters

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    with 2 fans running very very slowly and a room temp of around 25 C, I get max of around 40 degrees max on the GPU and I can't remember what temps I got on the CPU, slightly more if I remember correctly, but not much :)
     
  19. TobletDanillio

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    what you got (rad) and if you plan on selling it I may want it.

    cool have you got your GPU overclocked?
     

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