120mm and 80mm Fan Reviews

[lambchops3344]

Out of all the fans I test the nexus are the best... i just went and spent alot of money on a bunch of fans including 2 types of panaflos, coolermaster, antec, and nexus and a bunch more... nexus is the absolute best by far with panaflo being the runner up... dont beleive me?

http://img199.exs.cx/img199/2756/0408051237a9wh.jpg

thats not even all of them either, I tested a 120mm thermtake, 80mm thermaltake, 2 raidmax fans, another 80mm led coolermaster, and 4 random cheapo fans I got off ebay but there just not in the picture all for random reasons including lazyness.

I tested all of them with a coolermaster aerogate I and II fan controller and without a fan controller.

Best:

Nexus
Panaflo
Coolermaster

Best led:

120mm: Thermatake blue led smart with controller
80mm: Coolermaster red Led

Best Looking:

The Evercool Aluminum fans look really cool and i was gonna use them for a case mod but they are just way too loud! even on the fan controller there is a slight clicking and they just dont get slow enough. I decided to just put some primer and silver paint on the nexus 120mm.

To buy the nexus I used this site for it was the best place i could find. From what ive her Yate Loon fans are the almost same thing and make the nexus ones. There just hard to find.

Nexus on sale (still pretty expensive but worth it)
http://www.coolerguys.com/840556054078.html

Yate Loon:
http://store.yahoo.com/pctekonline/12x12cmcasefan.html

Silent PC review was right!

 

[imported_Sartori]

Hello

Okay you say you tested these fans, thats great.... But you don't elaborate very much on what kinds of tests you ran..... and how each performed in these "tests"

I myself are partial to the Antec pro seriese clear fans. Have been running them for a good year now in all my builds with no problems at all. Very quiet, especially the 120's and if you need them to push alot of air they'll be there for you.... They also come with both 3pin and the 4 pin connections.

I've been running Intel boards and have them connected right on the board and run the Intel Destop control which you can manually adjust the fans if you want from sliders.

Works great

 

[omniviper]

have you ever tested the deltas? i think these would smoke when it would come to performance

 

[lambchops3344]

Im running an antec 550 watt that has two antec fans in it... I agree they are very quite... but nothing I have tested has come to the standard of the nexus... they are virtually silent...

no i have not tested deltas... ill give some of those a try and some yate loons to see how they compare to the nexus