Zaward Fans - anyone used these before?
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Zaward Fans - anyone used these before?
Hi All,
Has anyone heard of or used fans from these guys before?
These fans seem to be only available either in Japan or Europe. I wonder how these compares to current Recommended Fans or the similarly designed Sharkoon Silent Eagle Golf fans?
Zaward Fan Range:
http://www.zaward.com/products_index02.php?Cid=1140
120mm fans
Thanks!
Has anyone heard of or used fans from these guys before?
These fans seem to be only available either in Japan or Europe. I wonder how these compares to current Recommended Fans or the similarly designed Sharkoon Silent Eagle Golf fans?
Zaward Fan Range:
http://www.zaward.com/products_index02.php?Cid=1140
120mm fans
Thanks!
well, the Zaward Contact website http://www.zaward.com/contact_tw.php does list a French / Italian / German distributors so if you can read any of them u mite find a online / retail shop that sells Zaward fans...
FYI I found that http://www.quietpc.com has a Netherlands website and they do sell Zaward fans, but not the 120mm variety which I was kind of interested in
FYI I found that http://www.quietpc.com has a Netherlands website and they do sell Zaward fans, but not the 120mm variety which I was kind of interested in
I've read the review (helps that I can speak German) ... 44 dBA (albeit at a distance of 4 cm, not 1 meter), on account of the "fans being so silent". I'm somewhat suspicious as to their idea of "silent" since their measuring equipment only starts @ 30 dB ...Sylph-DS wrote:This German site (the link I gave is from Google Translate so it's translated to English) has reviewed it. They don't seem hugely enthusiastic. But then I'm having some trouble with the pseudo-English
Their statement that the dimples do seem to pay off (albeit not quite as well as the advertised 15%) in making it quieter (compared to other fans at similar revs).
Seems quite cheap though - I'd be suspicious about its use for SPCR, but it might be worth a review on account of a more SPCR-centric (and interesting) examination of those dimples - maybe it's indeed a good idea that something can/should take off with other manufacturers .
Re: Zaward Fans - anyone used these before?
Irrelevant sidenote: "these guys" are actually the well known fan manufacturer Globefan, Zaward Corporation is their sales division.zgundam wrote:Has anyone heard of or used fans from these guys before?
I think that's already happened - just take a look at the Sharkoon Silent Eagle http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/l ... ex_en.htmlshathal wrote: it might be worth a review on account of a more SPCR-centric (and interesting) examination of those dimples - maybe it's indeed a good idea that something can/should take off with other manufacturers .
According to the Zaward/Globefan website, they own the patents on the dimple structure so unless someone else decides to license their design I don't think we'll see any dimple Nexus' anytime soon