Stock fan replacement ?
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Stock fan replacement ?
I have a coolermaster heatsink not sure what kind it is but its all copper and the fan is really noisy. i think it is a 60mm because it is the same size as my stock AMD fan and is made by the same delta company. Is there any quiet fan out there that i can replace it with instead of buying a new HSF?
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60 to 80
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There are more good 80mm than 60mm fan choices so I would get this thing and then get an 80mm nexus or panaflo L1A. There are many fans that would be OK if you want to search the fan forum. - FG
http://www.directron.com/fanadp.html
This adapter seems like a good one to me because it lets some of the air flow over the side of the heatsink and on to the mainboard.
There are more good 80mm than 60mm fan choices so I would get this thing and then get an 80mm nexus or panaflo L1A. There are many fans that would be OK if you want to search the fan forum. - FG
http://www.directron.com/fanadp.html
This adapter seems like a good one to me because it lets some of the air flow over the side of the heatsink and on to the mainboard.
Re: 60 to 80
thanks this is exactly what i was looking for. i've searched these forums for days. the search feature SUCKS i put specifically one thing in and it gives me 999 results. Thanks a lot!
frankgehry wrote:T,
There are more good 80mm than 60mm fan choices so I would get this thing and then get an 80mm nexus or panaflo L1A. There are many fans that would be OK if you want to search the fan forum. - FG
http://www.directron.com/fanadp.html
This adapter seems like a good one to me because it lets some of the air flow over the side of the heatsink and on to the mainboard.
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Re: 60 to 80
A good part of the reason for that is that people keep asking the same question over and over and over and over and over. This fills up the forums with a lot of "noise" and makes it harder to separate the wheat from the chaff when using the search.tca0bell wrote:i've searched these forums for days. the search feature SUCKS i put specifically one thing in and it gives me 999 results. Thanks a lot!
Sounds like my problem from a few years ago
I wanted to play it cheap and not have to replace the entire heatsink on a P3 system. The only problem was that it was using a 60mm (or was it 70?) fan. I did a special order and found a Panaflo that small.
Nowadays, I'd just buy a 60-80mm adaptor and put a Panaflo 80mm on it. That 60/70mm Panaflo fan was almost twice the price as an 80. I'd never do it that way again.
Otherwise, just find the cheapest 80mm heatsink and replace its fan with a Panaflo..
Nowadays, I'd just buy a 60-80mm adaptor and put a Panaflo 80mm on it. That 60/70mm Panaflo fan was almost twice the price as an 80. I'd never do it that way again.
Otherwise, just find the cheapest 80mm heatsink and replace its fan with a Panaflo..