( 21 reviews )
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Posted: May 30 2009
This is mine experience with this fan: first week a nice product, second week so noisy, third week fans roar for a seconds, now this fans roar for two or three minutes after PC starts and then vibrate all the time.
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Posted: May 5 2009
This fan is very quiet (so far) and delivers good airflow over the entire area of your memory which is a good feature. I like the 3-fan design, and find in the overall scheme of my computer's multiple fans, it's inaudible. Take notice that this fan clamps fairly loosely over the memory clips, which is perfectly acceptable in a desktop you do not plan on moving around very much. However, if the case were shaken along the wrong axis, I think it could probably come loose. Instructions are basically pictures which is plenty, because this was a snap to assemble (4 thumb screws and plug in the fan power and that's it). This fan runs off your motherboard, so there's no need for a Molinex connector.
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Posted: Feb 20 2009
You're probably better of just having a Antec SpotCool over your ram like I did, facing it slightly backwards than have these 3 fans blowing directly down on the ram. First of all these fans are only 40mm. They spin at probably 6000 rpm, and there's 3 of them. Because they're so close together they create phantom sounds due the slight variance in rpm amongst themselves, so its kind of annoying, especially when one decides to go bad. It's tach controllable so you could use your bios to set the rate if supported or just use speedfan. I prefer the antec spotcool because it's alot quiter on its medium and high setting than this corsair fan is on 30% duty cycle. A larger single fan, would, push more air, while being quiter. You don't need the fan to be directly over the source of heat. A large fan blowing in the center would cool the center more than the ends, but the heat from the ends will naturally being drawn to the center where it is cooler, as a result. However, the antec fan cools a rather large area. almost 70% of the ram surface is 'hovered' by that fan. Its your choice. I believe corsair could have made this fan better by putting some rubber dampeners around each fan inside the housing so that it does not vibrate that much, decreasing the audibility of it. And possibly including a better clamping design, the current one outrightly just plain sucks. there's no doubt that the corsair fan will keep your ram cool, but I have a feeling all that vibration could somehow skew the stability of your system since these fans are not only noise in the sense of audibility but also electrical noise closer to your ram.
