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Just upgraded my computer and realized the stock fans are basically jet engines. At first I thought it was my r9 290x but I turned off the fan for in the control and nope! Was my case fans. So I heard amazing things about Noctua fans for their quietness. Which fan would be best for intake?

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NF-F12 

 

Great for anything apparently. 

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Noctua NF-A14 ULN 140mm I use them and i love em. very quiet even at full speed. run mine with molex to psu.

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NF-F12 

 

Great for anything apparently. 

 

I shall check them out! I know their prices are kind of high but I can afford them finally!

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Noctua NF-A14 ULN 140mm I use them and i love em. very quiet even at full speed. run mine with molex to psu.

 

I need 120mm! Sorry I should have said that.

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Look at some BeQuiet! fans, they're great. I have my entire system filled with them, they're very quiet and move tons of air

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1. Corsair AF series.

2. be quiet I would say all of there fans have great air flow.

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I need 120mm! Sorry I should have said that.

Noctua NF-F12s are good. One note for Noctua fans, don't bother buying the ULN / etc variants. The normal fans come with the low noise adapters in the box with the fan (I think they do...maybe that's just for the heatsinks that come with fans.) yes the fans cost $20 each and look like poo (the industrials are too loud and expensive, the cheaper Redux line sacrifices performance), but they will outlast pretty much any other part of your system. I've had two sucking heat away from my 60C (average temp while I'm using it) CPU for 5 years, in a PC that gets turned on and off every day and the fans are still going strong. Dust does not stick to them. In that same 5 year time span, I've burned out 8 sleeve bearing Cooler Master fans (original cost, $8/each). It's worth the cost IMO (and the 8 fans were because it was my first PC build...I went overkill on airflow).

 

Well, ok, dust will build up on the leading edge of the fan blade. I finally knocked the dust off after 4 years of buildup and saw no real change/gain. When you compare that to the other fans I've used that get dust buildup along the entire blade, and inside the frame, dust basically doesn't stick to them.

 

There may be other fans that are just as good, but I've actually used Noctua, so that is who I recommend.

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Just upgraded my computer and realized the stock fans are basically jet engines. At first I thought it was my r9 290x but I turned off the fan for in the control and nope! Was my case fans. So I heard amazing things about Noctua fans for their quietness. Which fan would be best for intake?

Noctua fans are best used at less than full speeds, especially the NF-F12, as the sound of the air passing over their stator vanes get pretty high. They do a good job tempering the frequencies so it's unobtrusive, but it's the Noctua's still have a surprisingly high noise level (this can actually be said of all their fans).

 

I use Phanteks PH-F140SP fans and love them. They make a 120mm version called the PH-F120SP, but YMMV. NZXT's new FN V2 fans are also quite good (SPCR really likes the 120mm one too). And they're $9 USD each on Amazon. Just don't spend close to $30 for a fan, as the diminishing marginal returns hit you really hard. If you really like their look or the company or something else about them, go for it, but if you just want inconspicuous and effective PC cooling, save your money.

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I shall check them out! I know their prices are kind of high but I can afford them finally!

buy their redux fans

tey are cheaper and still amazing performance

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How quite are that at 100%? Just curious since I will prob keep them around there 99% of the time. I may go set up a fan curve in my BIOS later but right now super lazy.

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Look at some BeQuiet! fans, they're great. I have my entire system filled with them, they're very quiet and move tons of air

Is there a certain model you have?

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Is there a certain model you have?

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How quite are that at 100%? Just curious since I will prob keep them around there 99% of the time. I may go set up a fan curve in my BIOS later but right now super lazy.

How quiet are my PH-140SP (I have the standard ones. 3-pin, no LED) at 100%? Not super quiet, no. It's not bothersome to me, but it's not quiet either (there's simply too much air being moved). But they spend most of their time at <1000 rpm (usually between 800 and 900), and I can't hear them.

 

If you care about noise levels, please take the time to do some fan control. Low rpm fans suck (they just don't move air when you need them, and you have a 290X. You need fans that move air), and good fans (that move the amount of air you need at load) are not quiet at full speed (and overkill at idle).

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How quite are that at 100%? Just curious since I will prob keep them around there 99% of the time. I may go set up a fan curve in my BIOS later but right now super lazy.

 

 

VERY loud.  If you want fans to run at ~75-100%, I'd recommend Corsair AF series, or Be Quiet's fans, they're quieter at 100% in my experience.

 

NF-F12's in my experience are only quiet at 600-800 RPM, every other RPM you can definitely tell they're on.

This isn't the best reference video, but it does show decently well.

 

 

Here's more tests done by a guy that actually knows what he's doing xD

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1389355/fan-testing-round-12-begins-thanks-to-cpachris-and-prymus-nb-e-loop-sp120-nf-f12-cougar-vortex-pwm-vortex-red-led-pirahna-ap-45

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I'll go setup a fan curve and prob pick up some corsair AF 120mm. :)

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Noctua fans are kinda expensive just to use it as air flow fans, I generally use it on rads only.

As for air flow, I use Scythe Grand Flex PWM fans, at 1400-1500rpm(2400max) they perform pretty decent CFM and focus air flow well.

I brought them at 20SGD each (about 15USD) which is way cheaper then corsair fans.

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Just remember to get PWM versions and not 3 pin version unless you have fan controller because at 2400rpm its really loud. 

 

 

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I bought 3 NF-F12 and one F-A14 for my Air 540. One thing I noticed is running them at 2k isn't any different from running them around 1100-1300, aside from them being louder. 900 rpm is the idle for my fans which are dead silent. Well worth the money especially for my sli setup. Way better then all the corsairs fans I have.

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It would help to list your budget and specs.

 

NF-F12 

Great for anything apparently. 

Uhh, not really. Any other Noctua fan would be better for anything that isn't a rad or heatsink.

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