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Actually the blower is pretty quiet for the air-flow/pressure it's generating. At the second lowest speed setting it's pushing about as much air through my radiators as 2 x 104CFM Panaflo H1A fans did at full speed, and I can barely hear the blower at all. The 8cm medium speed case fan I have blowing air over the CPU area is the dominating noise in my setup, at least until the CD drive spins up and that is far louder than anything else.
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Cathar, I'm very interested in how quiet your blower is... I'm going to go WC but I'm having great difficulty choosing the Rad/fan combo. I don't really have space restrictions as the Rad/Pump/Res will be out of the case. I was originally looking for a heater core about the size of 2x120mm fans.
My real objective is to keep the noise low, so I assumed two slower 120mm fans would be pretty quiet. If your blower is quiet I would consider moving to a smaller core and raising the airflow (by looking at all of the specs shown here, raising airflow has a much bigger impact than everything else including water flow).
I'm curious if the noise from the blower is motor or air noise? If it's the motor, I'm guessing it could be damped further by enclosure?
Unfortunately, I also can't decide on the heater core since there is very little data on air flow capacity posted anywhere...