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Are the sp120 any good? for a gpu and cpu loop with two 240 rads

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I know they have to be high static pressure to prevent complications with the rad, for good airflow you could use gentle typhoons or as you said the sp120's. Do you want silence optimized or just good airflow?

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Corasir SP fans are pretty good, you might need to duct tape it because they are circular. Linus duct taped his circular fans on his rad and got some better temps.

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SP120's have excellent Static pressure but are quite loud, if you're sensitive to fan noise you should get Gentle Typhoons.

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i've seen some people use noiseblocker e-loops, gentle typhoons are good but they were discontinues so they are quite expensive and can only be bought on ebay but SP120's are good as they have good static pressure

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That depens on what rads you want to use? What fpi? What thickness? 

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i've seen some people use noiseblocker e-loops, gentle typhoons are good but they were discontinues so they are quite expensive and can only be bought on ebay but SP120's are good as they have good static pressure

You can get GT's at Frozencpu.com, Noiseblocker eloops have mounting issues when mounted with their fronts against something, the blades protrude slightly past the frame and hit whatever is flush with the front of the frame.

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Gentle Typhoons are super quiet, and push a crazy amount of air.

E-Loops are nearly just as good.

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Gentle Typhoons are super quiet, and push a crazy amount of air.

E-Loops are nearly just as good.

+1, I have two GTs on my H100i and they're great.

 

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NF-F12's are really good for static pressure and are really quiet. 

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NF-F12's are really good for static pressure and are really quiet. 

They're actually much louder than GT's, I'll find the link to a video that did a test on them (and a ton of other fans)

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They're actually much louder than GT's, I'll find the link to a video that did a test on them (and a ton of other fans)

Im aware that theyre louder than gentle typhoons. You'd have to be a fool not to know this ;)

Was just giving the guy options.

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Im aware that theyre louder than gentle typhoons. You'd have to be a fool not to know this ;)

Was just giving the guy options.

All good :)

Just trying to point out how much louder. Having issues finding the video from class, I'll post the video later from home.

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The best are arguably the Gentle Typhoon AR13's (1250rpm). Take a look at http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?261778-120mm-Fan-Testing-on-an-MCR120-Radiator-Round-6 for a good detailed list of fans tested at the same throughput of air on a radiator. 

Why 13's vs 14s or 15s? (15's are 1850 RPMs)

Why the slower speed? I'm using a fan controller, so wouldn't using the faster ones, and just turning them down make more sense?

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Why 13's vs 14s or 15s? (15's are 1850 RPMs)

Why the slower speed? I'm using a fan controller, so wouldn't using the faster ones, and just turning them down make more sense?

if you look at the review by Martin you'll see why. At a given CFM the AR13's a slightly less noisy than the AR15's. Its a slight advantage but if you don't need 1850 rpm (most don't) then the lower speed ones are a little better.

 

Its also striking how much better GT does in this test compared to the other tested fans. They really set themselves apart from the pack.

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You got one high FPI rad and 1 medium-low FPI rad. You need a higher static pressure fan to optimize the first one and a medium static pressure for the second. Don't go by RPM values- check how much static pressure each fan can offer and know that using a controller you can lower RPM, noise and static pressure accordingly.

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Currently in my system I have 2 SP's 120 Quiet Edition and 3 Silverstone Air Penetrators 122. 

 

I also used to have 2 GT 15's aswell and my favorites of them all are the Air Penetrators, they are extremely quiet and move more air through the radiator at the same rpm's than the SP's.

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They're actually much louder than GT's, I'll find the link to a video that did a test on them (and a ton of other fans)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?286088-Fan-Testing-Round-12-NB-e-loops-Cougars-Noctua-Piranha-GT-AP-45s

 

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There are 2 versions of SP120: Quiet Edition and High Performance Edition. If you have a good controller, just get the HPE version and tone them down to whatever works best performance/noise wise.

 

Edit: Why did you switch accounts?

That is the account i use at school because the forum log in at my school is blocked so i need to use facebook to post

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in that case just get some 1850 rpm GT's.  or if you're really serious about not caring about noise, get some 3000 or 4250 rpm GT's, but I have a feeling you'd change your mind about that...

 

btw, if noise isn't much of an issue, why not get thicker rads?  or is space an issue?

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Gentle Typhoon's and Noctua's and Noiseblocker eLoop's

 

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                    Aesthetics       Noise        Price

AP-15            average         amazing     average

NF-F12             poor             good          poor

SP120 QE     amazing           poor         amazing

 

Just sharing my thoughts :P

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