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Techguy · 02-24-2002, 11:03 AM

My planned system will be mainly watercooled. I'm shooting for quiet. But still over clockability. I'm thinking about using 2 heater cores. I currently have a 1989 escort w/AC HC at my house, and I'll prob add 1 more. They will be cooling my GPU, North bridge, 2 HD's and the prob. dual pelts will be cooled with the 2nd heater core. My idea is to have the 2 HC's at the top of my case and seal that section off so all the air exchanging is channeled.

I'd like to have a big fan blow in filtered air and have each HC with it's own exaust. I'd need the big fan's CFM to = the 2 exaust's total CFM.

So, does anybody know where I can get a fan (it CAN be bigger than 120mm) that has a large CFM and a low dBA? I'm gonna be living in a dorm fall 2002 and I'd like my room mate to not hate me :->

I currently have a YS Tech 120mm that does 136cfm, but it's a tad loud, if I run it at 7V or 5V it's fine tho.

I've seen some ppls with fans that do 200 + cfm, so where can I get them? I figure that a huge fan (200 mm or so) could pull some serious CFM at low noise (maybe having to drop the voltage tho, I dunno.)

If I'm totally off base and soom to be looking for a fan utopia (low noise/high CFM) please let me know.

I'm VERY open to ideas as I've not build this system, and won't till school's out.

02-24-2002, 11:03 AM	#1
Techguy Cooling Savant Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Suwanee, GA Posts: 130	I need a fan 4 my system that... My planned system will be mainly watercooled. I'm shooting for quiet. But still over clockability. I'm thinking about using 2 heater cores. I currently have a 1989 escort w/AC HC at my house, and I'll prob add 1 more. They will be cooling my GPU, North bridge, 2 HD's and the prob. dual pelts will be cooled with the 2nd heater core. My idea is to have the 2 HC's at the top of my case and seal that section off so all the air exchanging is channeled. I'd like to have a big fan blow in filtered air and have each HC with it's own exaust. I'd need the big fan's CFM to = the 2 exaust's total CFM. So, does anybody know where I can get a fan (it CAN be bigger than 120mm) that has a large CFM and a low dBA? I'm gonna be living in a dorm fall 2002 and I'd like my room mate to not hate me :-> I currently have a YS Tech 120mm that does 136cfm, but it's a tad loud, if I run it at 7V or 5V it's fine tho. I've seen some ppls with fans that do 200 + cfm, so where can I get them? I figure that a huge fan (200 mm or so) could pull some serious CFM at low noise (maybe having to drop the voltage tho, I dunno.) If I'm totally off base and soom to be looking for a fan utopia (low noise/high CFM) please let me know. I'm VERY open to ideas as I've not build this system, and won't till school's out.