Fan Noise To Cfm Comparison

[Montol]

I'm looking to get myself a 92mm fan for, most likely, a SLK-900U.

 

Question is: Which fan pushes the MOST CFM without being noisy?

 

Tornado/Delta, etc are completely out of the question due to the fact I leave my comp on and enjoy being able to sleep.

So, something less then 30dBa would be ideal.

 

I've been googling about, but no one really has a direct comparison, thought someone here might know.

[kobalt]

You can still get one of those and a good fan controller or some kind of dimer thing <_<

[ccokeman]

nexus fan controller works great for keeping the noise level down to a tolerable level. But i can sleep through anything .

[Montol]

Can you actually bring a Tornado to less then 25dBa...and maintain good temps?

[Iggy]

If you want really good temps and low noise, use a 92mm High CFM (non delta, because they have that awful high-pitched whine) 120mm fan with a fan controller and 120-92mm adapter on the HSF.

 

YS Tech 120mm fan, 125 CFM:

 

http://www.svc.com/120x38mmystech.html

[Montol]

Hmm, doesn't look like there ARE any 120-92mm adapters, just 120-80mm ones

[ravix]

Well, the slk-900 accepts 80mm too, why don't you take that route?

[Transattic]

nobody really answered ur question... fan controller is nice but a good fan that has those specs would be nice... i asked this question b4 and found no answer... all you have to do is to look at each fan's specs and compare it urself... use a calculator if you have to do the absolute ratio comparison... tell me what you find!

[smithy]

Heard panaflo 92mm are pretty good-I use a zalman ZM-F2 92mm-pretty quiet at about 36.1db at full speed- can get it with a fan mate 1 from zalman to control speed. Also look at zalman new 7000 series-but it is too big to fit in my case-about the size of a CD-ROM disk. But said pretty quiet and not a bad overclocker to boot.