Enermax Everest Advance 12cm

[thebennyboy]

I bought this fan to use as my CPU fan. It performs well, but it has some pretty big issues. The build quality is pretty bad compared to other brands, seemly quite flimsy. Now, the one issue i had was the RPM switch. It has 3 speed levels. 500 - 1000RPM, 500 - 1300RPM and 500 - 1600RPM. That fan switch was very flimsy, so much so that it snapped off when switching the mode. The fan i got also seemed to have rather bad coil whine. The retailer also refused an RMA of it, which i have now made a complaint about.

 

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What do i rate it?

 

Build Quality: 4/10 - It's not the worst build quality but could be so much better.

Performance: 9/10 - It performed very well keeping my CPU below 55C under full load.

Price/Performance: 7/10 - It performs well for the price but needs better build quality.

 

Would i recommend it? - Personally, no. Trying to make my system as quiet as possible, the coil whine and the broken RPM switch.

 

Broken switch: 

 

[Lord Pantaloons]

Pics are pretty much necessary for a review.

[thebennyboy]

Have now edited it to contain pics.

[Sky Daddy]

i have two cluster advance fans and i can't complain, my rpm switch never broke and there are no issues with coil whine. It does get quite audible when my cpu (fx 8320 @ 4.3ghz reaches full load) but i can't hear it over my headphones

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[thebennyboy]

I think i probably just got a faulty unit.

[Faa]

I have a few enermax twister fans here that came with my enermax liqtech 120x. They advertise their fans like "easy to remove fan blades to clean dust that trapped in the bearing blabla", which I tried and broke off immediately. It's a noisy fan even at 400 rpm you can hear the bearing noise from a meter away making chirping noise >.>

I'm not sure why you would rate a fan for its price/performance - there are plenty of 10$ fans (like the swiftech helix) that are very quiet and excellent performing fans. Those fans are not made to be quiet and should be avoided