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rackoon:

OK hears the deal. I have a cocktail cab that is going to have a 27" monitor and a car amp in it. Its going to make some heat so I drilled 1 1/2" holes all around the bottom recessed pedestal base (eight on each side) and drilled six 3" holes in various places to suck in and push out some air (similar to Whammocade's fan placement). :laugh:

The thing is that my CPU fan is allready loud and my monitor makes a very slight hmmm and I can just imagine adding six fans to this. Does anybody know of a cheap 80cm case fan that is quite, cheap and maybe has a led on it? {I have looked around and seen some but I know nothing about the NOISE FACTOR of these things.} Also, I have noticed that they all have different bearings. Do these things fail or something?
 
Any advice such as type, brand, or where to get them would be great! :cheers:


Green Giant:

Any chance of having a bigger whole on the bottom of the cab out of site.  You could put a 9" or 10" fan pushing air out the bottom.  The bigger the fan, the lower the rpm's necessary to move air, the quieter. 

Another option is using some pots or resistors to slow down the fan speed and lower the db level.

RyoriNoTetsujin:

Been a while since I looked for fans, but nobody's better at quiet/silent parts than Silent PC Review.  Here's their article for recommended fans:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article63-page1.html

Like I said, it's been a while... but to my knowledge most quiet fans don't have leds.  GG also brings up a great point about slowing down normal fans; this is something that's really easy to do with the right parts, or cheap enough to just buy outright.

tristan:

The 80 MM ones that are quiet don't move as much air, but a couple of them may do the job. Basically you want to look at the dbA rating, the higher the louder. These are rated at 13 which is very low for an 80mm fan:


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999071




shardian:

You could also use 120mm ball bearing fans and run them at 9 volts. Should be fairly quiet.

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