..kinda grandpa??!! >:D
Don't look anywhere else, just grab a Noctua, best you can get :thumb:
..kinda grandpa??!! >:D
Don't look anywhere else, just grab a Noctua, best you can get :thumb:
Buh, they is sell arctic p12, 5 pack for $30.99, a SINGLE nf-a12 costs that much.
It's at a position where, no matter how good it is, they're kind of a ripoff. no ?
40db is pretty loud, I thought the whole point of Noctua's fans was they are quiet (though I've only owned their loudest and it wasn't, unsurprisingly)
The Gentle Typhoons I remember were made (or at least branded) Scythe, never heard of Nidec. And Delta? Haven't heard them mentioned since the days of the pre-xp Althlon. The small unknown channel is certainly putting in the work to find options.
40db is pretty loud, I thought the whole point of Noctua's fans was they are quiet (though I've only owned their loudest and it wasn't, unsurprisingly)
The Gentle Typhoons I remember were made (or at least branded) Scythe, never heard of Nidec. And Delta? Haven't heard them mentioned since the days of the pre-xp Althlon. The small unknown channel is certainly putting in the work to find options.
Well, 40db is a good test place for everyday setup, because when you go to 30db, you're at noise floor, where outside of anechoic chambers, measurements are unreliable.It's logarithmic - 35 is significantly less than 40 and still above the noise floor. Personally I'd set them at a level where I couldn't hear them and compare, but everyone's ears will have different frequency response curves so what doesn't bother me might annoy you.
Delta is a big maker, they're mostly industrial, 5000+ rpm server stuff
40db is loud?
Well, 40db is a good test place for everyday setup, because when you go to 30db, you're at noise floor, where outside of anechoic chambers, measurements are unreliable.It's logarithmic - 35 is significantly less than 40 and still above the noise floor. Personally I'd set them at a level where I couldn't hear them and compare, but everyone's ears will have different frequency response curves so what doesn't bother me might annoy you.
Delta is a big maker, they're mostly industrial, 5000+ rpm server stuff
I don't remember the RPM but given the noise my friend's 60x38mm Delta would surely have been more at home in a server room than a bedroom even back in the dayShow Image(https://cdn.geekhack.org/Smileys/solosmileys/laugh.gif)
Jesus christ, people still rolling Gentle Typhoons ?My PC has only a single fan running most of the time : a 120 mm GentleTyphoon. It is voltage-controlled to run at low RPM unless under load.
If they weren't ball bearing, I'd consider it, but I can't stand ball bearing noises..zzzzzzzzz..z.zzzzzzz.zz.z.z.z.z.
The Gentle Typhoons I remember were made (or at least branded) Scythe, never heard of Nidec.Nidec Servo has always been the manufacturer. Scythe sold them under their brand for a while, and did not even always change the sticker on the fan hub. After Scythe stopped, some small shops here and there have resold them.
Also, you're never going to have a dead silent fan unless it's running at something like 200rpm (aka. not doing anything at all.
At 700 rpm I could hear the fan ball bearings and air flow over the fan blades
At 600 rpm I could mostly only hear the air flow over the fan blades
At 500 rpm I could hear sleeve bearing noise
At 450 rpm I could hear the air flow turbulence over the case edges/fan grill and only just hear the sleeve bearings if you listened.
In all cases I could hear if there was an imbalanced blade and some fans simply wouldn't spin down below 500 or even 600rpm. At this point some would start pulsing the motor which has a really annoying drum/drone effect. If they ran at all.
Damn now everything else is 2 loud.Now you see why I balked at the idea of testing fans at 40dB - it's just not quiet.
The Gentle Typhoons I remember were made (or at least branded) Scythe, never heard of Nidec. And Delta? Haven't heard them mentioned since the days of the pre-xp Althlon. The small unknown channel is certainly putting in the work to find options.
Thinking about ziptying 120mm-s to the GPU, but the thing is, There arn't any "quiet" fans on the market that can spin down like the "slow" tuned fans. The gpu needs a larger range unlike the CPU.What GPU is it? There are aftermarket heatsinks for them too...
Thinking about ziptying 120mm-s to the GPU, but the thing is, There arn't any "quiet" fans on the market that can spin down like the "slow" tuned fans. The gpu needs a larger range unlike the CPU.What GPU is it? There are aftermarket heatsinks for them too...