Originally Posted by
Cathar
I've been pushing the Yate's for years. Before I completed the final design specs for the PA radiators, I researched pretty much every fan that explicitly claimed to be "quiet". Pretty much every single fan that the manufacturer said was "quiet" was actually not quiet at all, or if they were quiet they were only because they had been undervolted so much as to be near useless.
The only real decent fan that I found were the Nexus fans, but then discovered that the Nexus fans were just modified and rebadged Yate-Loon's. The Yate-Loon L's were the only fan that I found was actually quiet, and somewhat surprisingly, were never actually advertised as being quiet, and had fan noise values that were not grossly understated for advertising purposes.
The PA radiator series were pretty much designed around the Yate-Loon fan series as a "reference" fan. It was the fan type that I was most concerned about during the prototyping stage of whether or not some radiator design change resulted in improved performance, for 5/7/12v operation. All other fans in my testing revolved around the yate-loon's being used as the reference fan. I did not ever find a single fan that offered any better performance for the same low noise level.
Of course, this still doesn't stop manufacturers from just making up figures lower than another manufacturer to get more sales. This dishonest marketing technique is still sucking in people to this day.
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