[help] Where To Find Fans And Accessories?

hi everyone,

i'm looking to replace my heatsink fan with something a lot quieter (it's running at a "quiet" 30dba, but it's annoying me). i'm considering a 70mm fan that puts out between 25-30cfm at ~20-22dba. any ideas where i can find this? i've looked and haven't found anything that spectacular.

either that or maybe a 70 to 80mm fan adapter with a nice quiet 80mm vantec stealth or panaflo fan, but i can't find those at all. 70 to 92 is a little too big. the only place i've found was some site that someone suggested, but it's in australia.

thanks everyone. (Y)

#76358

I recoment bestbyte.net for such things. Also i would get a whole new heatsink. Spend 30$ and get one of thoes zalman fanlooking heatsinks. Their deadly silent and do an excelent job at cooling (for a silent heatsink)

#76369

lol, lostspyder. same comments.

yeah, i'm a little lazy, though. it took forever to install this heatsink, and it was even harder to take it off (to put on some as3), so i'm a little hesitant. and my friend has had bad experience with zalmans, though he didn't specifically say why. plus, 30 bucks for another one. i still have an old heatsink lying around that i can't get rid of, and if i keep buying these, i'll just accumulate a bunch of heatsinks.

and i checked bestbyte, there's no 70-80mm adapter there. there's a 70-92mm one, but it's not in stock.

#76372

well your gonna have to get cpus to go under thoes extra heatsinks arnt you :6

70mm fans are kinda an odd size. There arnt many 70mms out their besides the TMD fans.

The fans your gonna probaly want to get is the vantec stealth. I checked around and no one seems to have the 70mm->80mm adaptor. You might want to cinsider a fan controler. I think you can get them for 5 or 6$, adjust is to optimum cooling at an aceptical noise level and your good to go.

#76375

yeah, that's the thing, it's hard to find 70mm fans.

and i've never been too fond of controllers. i just like to let fans run at their own speeds.

but i'll take a look into some 92mm fans. is that what you use?

and i'm a poor college student. can't afford all these new-fangled cpus and graphics cards, lol.

#76377

I use a skl-900 with a big bad 92 mm fan on it.

#76385

well, i'll keep looking around.

if i can't find a 70-80mm adapter, i just might get the 92mm one and pick up a quiet 92mm fan.

#76903

Have you tried CoolerGuys?

#76974

thanks for the link. just checked it out, but there aren't any fan adapters. these things are so hard to find.

#77207

I have a few hardware sites bookmarked at home that I can't remember right now (at work), but I'll try to remember to come back here and post them afterwards... The one I do remember is this:

www.quietpc.com

They specialize in quiet fans and products... I don't know if they'll have your adapter though, in fact, I doubt it... :/

I'll see what I can find at home tonight.

#77655

RedEye PC

Canada Computer

Turns out I had a lot less links than I thought... and yes, one is canadian, so sue me, I'm canadian too.

Good luck in your search

#77805

thanks for the links.

i took a look, but no fan adapters. maybe i'll just have to make one, or use a huge 92mm one.

good stuff, though. (Y)

#77807

www.svc.com

www.frozencpu.com

www.sidewindercomputers.com

www.so-trickcomputers.com

www.directron.com

#78438

SPeedfan

google that.. its a program. i got off one of the posts here or at aquaxp

super useful app.. i have running.. software controlls the fansspeeds.. and it does it with the fans connected to the board...

rite now my comp is so quiet it can only head the lil spinning or rather hissing sound of the HD.. not hte grinding like sound but htat quiet lill hisssing..

also i found some gheto ways to make PC quieter.. and also some usefull

rite now i have 4 fans..

1 - 120mm (supposed to be 12v but connected as a 5v) soo much quieter

1 - 60mm (the loud type processor fan spinns at upto 6000 rpm...)

1 - hdcooler on 7k rpm HD (supose to be 12 v but connected as a 5v) totaly quiet.

1- fan on powersupply.. by the way i ripped off the covering on teh powersupply.. cuase my supply is over the CPU.. ull see in the picture.. and then i put a mesh in the place of themetal cover... cuase that fan spins fast anyway even thought its a ANTEC SMART FAN.(powersupply) bu hte heat in the case makes it spin fast anyway...

http://www.geocities.com/xnibin1x/pc/pc.html

#78767

hey try www.xoxide.com theyve got fans and a whole hell of a lot more

(if only i had enough money to spend there )

#79016