Cheap price on SilverStone Case Fan with 120mm 9 blades 26 6 Db FN121 A Retail is the best
Band : SilverStone
Model : FN121
>> Despite Amazon s description this is NOT a ball bearing fan
Bearing Type Ball
No this is just a sleeve bearing fan Contact the manufacturer and ask them In fact it is printed right on the box SLEEVE BEARING The problem is that I purchased this fan specifically to be mounted in a horizontal position So what is the big deal you ask Sleeve bearing fans are not designed to be run horizontally They will quickly wear out and get noisy if mounted horizontally Use your favorite search engine to look up the details Basically ball bearing fans last longer and can be mounted horizontally without any problem
I learned this the hard way by mounting sleeve bearing fans horizontally They would become loud and die prematurely even though the same brand fan was mounted vertically in the same case and was still running just fine
However this is an excellent sleeve bearing fan and will work just fine in the vertical position which it was designed for
>> Nice fan and quiet
This 120mm fan is really nice It s pretty darn quiet and very powerful For a basic 1 speed fan you can t do much better
>> Good 120 mm fan
I picked this fan because I wanted a balance between airflow and noise This fan is positioned over a Biostar Radeon 4850 which has quite the noisy and ineffective cooler For this build I went with the cheapest components available and didn t really get burned nothing is failing yet but the graphics card is a bit noisier than it has to be
Anyway as a result I wanted a fan to help cool the Radeon I also didn t want it to add any more to the cacophony which is why I chose this fan Furmark temps used to be 106 degrees Celsius now they re 75 peak CPU temp also went down by 10 degrees on the stock cooler as a result of the increased cool air coming into the case though I ve since replaced the stock CPU cooler
But getting back on track This fan is less expensive than the average 120 mm fan is quieter than average moves more air than average comes with more screws than you need allows for RPM monitoring though it s powered by molex and even comes with a better grille if you feel like cutting a hole in your case How could it not get five stars
Edit I ve since overclocked the 4850 from 625/1000 stock to 750/1200 max temps are now 78 degrees This should change go up as Summer approaches but either way it s a far cry from 105
