These are Arctic's new line of fans. Reviews indicate that noctua fans will outperform these at the high end RPMs. Assuming you cap your RPM at 80%, these are great value and perform amazing.
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im sorry :(
Must be free, no price in title?
no sugar please i'm sweet enough!
$59 for those playing online
NOISY
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source: trust me bro
User error. Any 3k rpm is noisy. Using fan control to tweak it to sub 1.5k makes this quieter than anything else.
Trust me bro: I have 3.
Agree, skill issue.
Fan control, good mix curve, set to max out around 2200rpm. Great performance!
Trust me bro: I have 24.
Does your case levitate?
To be fair the Arctic fans are known to be noisy at 1000rpm. Whether that's a hum or a bit more depends on the person. Either way no where near as bad as the EVGA stock fans I used to run on my AIO until I swapped over for Arctic P12. Those topped the AIO noise charts.
That's the older non-Pro versions. They fixed it on these as well as improving the performance.
Has that annoying whine when dialed down, I agree
You don't know noisy until you put a 200cfm 65dBA Delta in your gaming PC
Source: 14yo me being a sucker for punishment
I got 6 fans in my pc and my gpu still hitting over 80 degrees average and 105 hotspot. Do I need better fans? or repaste GPU?
Modern GPU and CPU chips are rated around 100c and will auto throttle down to avoid damage - if your performance isn't dropping away at max temps, then it's fine, don't worry about it 👍
yea but it still can spike to 110 and stay at 100c for long periods of time. probably destroying the longevity of the card. Shoulda got the 3 fan version.
Set a power limit and adjust fan curves
PTM7950 and undervolt if possible.
Just to be sure what case do you have and what's the direction of air flow? i.e. front fans are intake with top/rear exhaust?
I got a fractal design focus 2, its full mesh on the front. 3 120mm fans on the front 2 exhaust 140mm on the top and one 120mm exhaust on the rear. I actually only had the two 140mm at the front and 1 fan exhaust but I bought 3 additional fans recently and it didn't make a single difference to the temps :(
That setup sounds fine and you could try removing the top exhaust fan to see if it makes a difference, though it would likely be minimal. I suspect that you're right about the GPU needing repasting. You could try a 50-100mv undervolt in MSI Afterburner and seeing if the temperature improves. That would help confirm if it's dried paste or an uneven cooler making contact rather than airflow/fans.
Have you tried putting the top front fan as an intake instead? There's a chance that the fan at the front of the top is pulling out the cooler air before it even gets to your GPU/CPU. I believe there was a study on the Fractal North case about setting it up that way
best is to have more intake than exhaust as it brings less dust in due to positive pressure
Yep. Unless you're BPC Technology who for a very long time were shipping PCs with fans/coolers mounted on the front set to exhaust with a single fan on the rear set to exhaust too. No intake whatsoever.
does sound like the thermal paste pumped out with that high a hotspot difference
If you've had your GPU for more than a couple years then repasting is worth trying out. My mate was in a similar situation, turns out his GPU's paste was all crusty. One repaste later the hotspot temps dropped by 30 degrees.
Sounds like my experience last month.
May be worth checking what size / thickness thermal pads you will need should they need replacing too. Hadn't planned doing mine but when I separated the cooler the thicker pads around the die had started to perish and broke apart.
What cooler are you running on it? (and CPU?)
and how are the fans configured? More fans doesn't always mean better cooling!
gpu has pny dual fan, cpu has cooler master air cooler, 3 intake, 2 exhaust on top, one exhaust on back
Repaste GPU bro
Does anyone know a reliable way to hook up fans so you can auto throttle them on temp BUT you have to piggy back them off each other or I don't know use a PCIE expansion card to attach the fans to? My mobo has very little connectors for the fans. It sucks. And I live in an old queenslander without aircon in well qld. It doesn't like it :(
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mobo is MSI B460M Pro-VDH Wifi I basically want to buy this 5 pack of fans and run them all in my case.
These are PST fans which means you can daisy chain them together. Plug fan 1 into SYS_FAN1, plug fan 2 into fan 1, fan 3 into fan 2 and so on. They'll all spin at the same speed and auto throttle based on temperature etc.
Thanks. Do you know how many of these fans you can daisy chain? (just googled daisy chain, love that phrase)
Typically it's recommended to have 5 per motherboard header, as many motherboards will have a 1A limit and these will draw around 0.15A each. You could possibly run 6-8 without using another header or hub, but it may be pushing it.
@Clear: yeah its exactly what I"m looking for. I'll wait then. If memory serves ozbargain has a 'auto ping' for specific terms or deals. I'll try and set that. Thanks so much clear. I appreciate your help
@Minimalism: You can get a pack of Thermalright TL-C12C for quite cheap which are daisy chained - if you get the RGB variant, the RGB connectors are also daisy chained.
Alternatively you can get a fan hub (~$10-20) that you can just plug regular/existing fans into.
@skillywilly: Thanks man i'll look into that. Yeah don't care about RGB only temp control and silence'ish (plus the daisy chain option ;))
Looks like the deal has ended.
Says $89 for me
Yep. Looks like we missed it… Dang
same. ozbargain pig herd trampled through and wiped out the 10 they had at this price
Looks like it's back on the menu boys!
Wow that was quick. All gone :(
seems to be back in stock again
are these good for an aio cooler/radiator ?
or is there something better ?
Yes, they are ideal for high-pressure applications, such as a radiator. There is no better bang for your buck. Noctua is a little better but much more expensive.
i pait about $100 for these not long ago.
Tell em the price, son.