Quote Originally Posted by Vapor View Post
I give up on Silverstone fans. Really.

1) FM121 (so lauded by many) just fails to perform well....and is deceitfully and horribly overrated.
2) FM122 performs even worse, makes annoying noises, eats up a lot of power....oh, and it's deceitfully overrated as well.
3) FN121 has annoying wiring (double molex) but is otherwise pretty good....keeps up with a fake Yate Loon SL at least.
4) FM123 makes the FM122/121 seem like good fans....has the new title as "most annoying". Really, I'd rather have a 220CFM Delta running than one of those POS.
5) FN122 SHOULD have been good, I turned it on, it was really quite and pleasing to listen to, no annoying noises. Then I try my CFM tester: 26CFM at 12V!!!!! Been running for a few hours now and it's up to 29CFM at 12V

Officially, no more Silverstones....

Interesting findings. I don't have any real test gear but an LC tech station with a PA160/shroud--so simply changing a fan is somewhat of a comparitor, but I found pretty much the same thing...the FN 121 is not much of a fan--but it is fairly quiet compared to the others. I didn't get any more cooling from the FM 121 than I did from a number of other lower cfm fans--that could be just a flaw in my testing though.

Thanks for the great work!

CyberDruid