Quote Originally Posted by gabe View Post
TBH I was unaware that this brand was anathema here. I was looking for quiet 80x15's and they fit the bill nicely at least on paper, and to my ear. Now, if these particular fans are no good (I'll obviously do more research on the subject matter now that you alerted me -thank you), all it means is that we'll either not sell these particular fans, find another more suitable offering, or not sell fans at all and present this as a convenient feature of the product. It's not cast in stone ATM.

When I designed these heatsinks, I found that adding mounting holes for 80mm fans was a nominal cost, and it added a convenient feature not available before. So why not do it? There also was a concern with the unusual thermal output of the GTX480. I could see some people installing this card in cramped unventilated quarters, and felt that this offered them an alternative to F/C block with several benefits: reducing the load in the loop, thus allowing for the use of smaller heat exchangers, maintaining low noise levels, low cost, upgradability, etc..
Not here, SPCR. . .I think they expunged all references over there. The staff there (SilenX) is almost as bad as those clowns over at Fester. . .almost. I think there were 3 of them, they all opened accounts as themselves (SilenX reps) and then each of them opened other accounts that then proceeded to shill their own products saying how great they were. Well, they got caught and it didn't go over very well at all. IIRC, they all got banned and, all ref to the company got deleted. See below for actual product related details.

Personally, I really like the fan mount idea. . .wondering why it took so long to come about.


Quote Originally Posted by One_Hertz View Post
I thought that the dba ratings are underrated and the fans are somewhat overpriced, but the quality is decent nonetheless?
dbA under rated, CFM over rated and a certain lack of quality make them even more over priced than Noiseblockers. I have a couple of 92mm that leaked/burned off oil from the bearings and there were tons of other reports about it happening to the 120's as well. I also have a 14db 80x15 that's mentioned in the OP and even my ears that spent 12 years in a machine shop can hear it from ~4' away, makes a faint rubbing noise, like the magnet is hitting the motor. Initial quality wasn't bad but it dropped rather quickly.