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| Thread ID: 142550 | 2016-07-22 04:07:00 | What does it cost for a 120mm case 4 pin fan these days? And a 80mm or 92 4pin fan?? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | PC World Chat |
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| 1423498 | 2016-07-22 04:07:00 | I want to replace my case fan (Only have one at the mo, the 80 mm). Which came with the case. According to the specs it's 92 (80) mm fan. And a 120mm fan (the front can take 1 120mm and the side 2 120mm The mobo has 2 4 pin headers apart from the CPU fan. I've seen a few 4 pin which are like 45-50+ which is ridiculous. I'm not paying that much Anyone use anything like this ? (www.pbtech.co.nz) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1423499 | 2016-07-22 04:37:00 | Nothing stopping you using cheap 3 pin fans, they work just fine on 4 pin headers. I use CM sickleflow fans myself fairly quiet for good airflow and around $21 each. There are very noisy if you put them on Perspex grills though - but it's not the fan as such but rather the air moving through the grill that makes the noise. You can hear them but from under my desk it's not easy to notice. Even a $10 Deepcool is good enough for most uses. Never used those hubs, always just used Molex adapters to add more fans. Seems like a good Idea if you want the motherboard to govern the speed though. I'd be worried about too many high power fans overloading the header though so I'd probably stick to the lower current models personally. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1423500 | 2016-07-22 04:42:00 | Yer true I could use 3 pin fans.The 80mm that's in this now is 3 pin. Used to use molex but the wires kept coming out and killing the power. When I did use them for the hdd's I had and some of the fans One reason why I want to avoid molex now |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1423501 | 2016-07-22 04:52:00 | The 4 pin PWM fans give better speed control and are good for CPU cooling, not so important for a case fan though and the 3 pin ones can still be controlled. My Bios keeps my two case fans cruising at about half speed and totally silent and they are both 3 pin fans. Think they are corsair, came with the case. Some BIOSes have a setting for what type of speed control to use if I remember correctly. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1423502 | 2016-07-22 05:17:00 | Just been reading about that hub, you're right. Depending on how fast the fan is, or how much power it uses, the speed of the fan/s can or will be reduced. And only one of the ports (white) supports PWM So will pass on that. May just buy a $19 corsair 120mm. Pity that most of them are LED. The front of this case is fully covered, so you cant see an LED fan |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1423503 | 2016-07-22 08:04:00 | This is a good option www.newegg.com Paradigm is were i got it When I rebuilt my comp I lost Fan speed control that the original had so went with the Noctua NF-B9,they come in various sizes and have plenty of cabling options(3 to 4 pin) I just went with the standard 1600RPM option and can't hear it Now just have done another comp and had to replace the rear case fan with another that reached the connection on the board,this proved to be to noisy so stuck the original back in and used one of the LN Adapters from the Noctua to connect to power resulting in a much quieter Fan |
Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1423504 | 2016-07-22 08:59:00 | Decided to get a AF120 quiet edition 120mm - Corsair. It's only for the front of the case. Dont think I'll bother with side fans on the case. Since, there's only 2 fan headers. And I dont want to use molex Was going to get it from Computerlounge but got it from a shop in Dominion Rd / Mt Eden (used to go there, when I lived there), instead. Since it was cheaper inc free postage |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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