80mm case fan for SS LC-03

David230 · 5 Mar 2006 at 14:16

Hi,

I am going to fit an 80mm fan in the spare blow hole @ the bottom of my HTPC case (silverstone LC-03) under HDD's. What 80mm fan would give best noise/performance ratio?

Want to keep noise levels down as the whole thing will be virtually passive cooled. Just want a fan to take the heat from the drives straight out of the case instead of blowing across the whole system.

Cheers

David

Yewen · 5 Mar 2006 at 14:20

You will need to have the fan running at 5v/7v to get the best noise levels out of it.

The SilenX fans are good at 80mm, as are the zalmans (the zalman fans come with a volt modding adapter so its nice and easy)

David230 · 5 Mar 2006 at 14:45

zalman is probably all I need.

thanks Yewen

Yewen · 5 Mar 2006 at 14:48

No worries, I love the packaging on the Zalman fans, in the cardboard boxes.

Just think its how it should be done, none of the plastic to cut yourself on!