Looking for a Full Tower Case Front and rear 120mm Fans Any good ones ?

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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:43:10 -0500, "Wildman" <allanp@nospam for
Out of curiosity, why do you need a 120mm exhaust? Dual, high output 80mm
fans should do just as well.
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Probably because one 120mm is quieter.
 
Out of curiosity, why do you need a 120mm exhaust? Dual,
Yes. Bigger fan can move more air quieter.
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If the fan is the same material, the bearings are the same, etc., this is
true. However, if you get a silent 80mm fan, that + the PSU exhaust will
handle the intake of a front 120mm fan.
 
Ken said:
Yes. Bigger fan can move more air quieter.
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True but there are some really quiet high output 80mm fans out there. I have
dual 80mm Aerocools that each move 38CFM at 26dB.
 
And when you turn the 80mm fan to maxium will it have the same CFM as
the 120mm fan at maxium and in reverse ?
 
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:59:44 -0500, "Wildman" <allanp@nospam for
True but there are some really quiet high output 80mm fans out there. I have
dual 80mm Aerocools that each move 38CFM at 26dB.
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Is that the same Aerocool fans they use on the Vantec Aerocool HSF? If
so, I have one of those and they are not quiet. In fact I was so
pissed at the noise it made that I took it off and went back to using
the stock Intel HSF.
 
Diskhead said:
Is that the same Aerocool fans they use on the Vantec Aerocool HSF? If
so, I have one of those and they are not quiet. In fact I was so
pissed at the noise it made that I took it off and went back to using
the stock Intel HSF.
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While 26db isn't jet engine like ...... I wouldn't say they were quiet
either.
My personal opinion is that you need to be looking at under 20 ... and
then you might have to put a fan controller on to slow them down a
little!

Depends how silent you want them. Now I've 'done' our home office
machines, all I hear in other places is bloody irritating fan whine !!!!

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Scott Backular said:
Hard to find :(
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Coolermaster Stacker has 120mm slots front and back. Also has 120mm fan slot
on case side, and space for psu at the bottom and top of the case!

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Antec P160 Aluminum case has front and rear 120mm fans. This one of the
cases I have. Very light, well thought out ans quiet case.
They also have a mid-tower case called the Sonata that is not aluminum but
has front/rear 120mm fans.
 
3_D said:
Antec P160 Aluminum case has front and rear 120mm fans. This one of the
cases I have. Very light, well thought out ans quiet case.
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We've got one. Its ok, but pretty expensive considering no PSU also, I'd
say there were a few issues that they have NOT thought about like not
being able to mount drives with SATA converters and poor card slot
mountings.

Compucase do some that also have 120mm fans, a quiet PSU, really nice
layout and 2/3 the price of the Antec and that's INC a pretty quiet
PSU!!

The Antec does look nice though ;-)

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