P180 fans are quiet at full blast?

[crspyjohn]

P180 fans are quiet at full blast? Like i couldn't find the dba on the fans could anyone tell me?

Also do you guys recommend a better case in this price range of $100 under?

[Syrillian]

Greetings,

No (they are not quiet). I have a P180, and am very happy with it. The fans can move a lot of air at full-blast, but they are not quiet. I have replaced mine with some Thermaltake fans that are quieter (25.5dba). There are better, but at the time I bought what was available locally.

Also, I am using a 80x15mm Panaflo for the VGA airbix. It is also loud, so I put it on a Zalman controller that I had laying around. That helped alot, and I found that I only needed to run the Panaflo at 45-50%.

Hope that this helps.

[crspyjohn]

Do you recommend any of case that comes with fans and that arn't loud. I dreally dont want to spent 150 on a case + fans :-/ I'm on a 1k budget.

[sdkevin]

Yate Loon is cheap and very quiet too, I think it's $3.99 each

[ripken204]

the fans arnt loud tho. at medium speed i can barely hear it.

[scoobysix]

The specs of the fans that come with the P180 are found in the P180 user manual.

I think they are 23dba on the lowest speed and push 39cfm.

I have all the fans in my P180 on low, the loudest noise actually comes from the 7900GT fan, otherwise it's pretty much dead silent. At full blast they are actually quite loud, well loud enough to drown out the 7900GT fan.

[scoobysix]

Actually, the fan specs can be seen here (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article255-page5.html).

[p0tter]

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article255-page5.html



P180: Fan Characteristics
Fan Setting CFM SPL

Antec 120 x 25mm TriCool
H 75 39 dBA/1m
M 47 31 dBA/1m
L 28 20 dBA/1m


Antec 120 x 38mm TriCool
H 64 30 dBA/1m
M 55 27 dBA/1m
L 39 23 dBA/1m

[Aramdin]

The provided fans @ full speed arent real silent @ 12v. I would describe it as: a lotta wind bing pushed. You dont hear a lot of noise from the fan motor, thats positive :)