A couple of interesting fans...

Wex · Post by **Wex** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 4:06 pm

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/fans_standard.htm

I know Papst and sunon, but I've never heard of some of those other fans before, any one know anything about em? They look interesting.

Tibors · Post by **Tibors** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:48 pm

The Noise Blocker fans are mentioned several times in this forum (Search). They are better than average, but not terribly good.

I've never heard of Xinruilian. Why are they trying to sell a 120mm fan with a picture from a 40mm fan

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:22 am

FWIW....I pulled an Xinruilian 120mm fan out of a Fortron PSU I was modding. It was clear with blue LEDs. I'm not using it because it lacked rpm monitoring ability. It sounds ok though....maybe 1800rpms @ 12v.

mathias · Post by **mathias** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:37 pm

I got an 80mm xinruilian sleeve bearing fan with my previous case, haven't used it much because it has no RPM monitoring ability. They make a lot of differently shaped fans for some reason. I heard somenhere here that they're one of the manufacturers of cheap zalman fans, I guess I'll check if that 8cm fan starts up at very low voltages like zalman ones.

Was that 12cm fortron fan ball or sleeve bearing?

mathias · Post by **mathias** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:17 pm

Tried the undervolting, like a ZMF1 it worked up to 56 ohms on the 5V line, at 89 ohms, it needed a push to start. Too bad their 151 and 171 mm fans are all ball bearing. ( http://www.xinruilian.com/producta/searchall.asp ) I would guess their 70mm fans would be useable if you needed one of those, and the 60mm ones go as low as 2500RPM, I don't remember hearing of any 60mm fans that slow.

Edit: I was wrong, silenx fans go slower.

Their 172mm AC fans are available with sleeve bearings, I wonder if those could be useful.