Replacing Tuniq Tower Fan

[antonfrompresto]

I am getting some components together for a build when the intel cpu prices drop in july and have a couple of questions about replacing the fan supplied with the Tuniq Tower 120.

Would replacing the fan with a 120mm Sharkoon 2000, as proved a good fan in the Vapor's thread, reduce the noise or does the noise mostly come from air rushing between the fins?

Would the pressure from the fan be high enough for this purpose because I can't find any pressure figures?

How does the fan controller attach to the supplied Tuniq Tower fan, would it be easy to swap the fans, because I still want to use the supplied fan controller, or would it require wires being cut and rewired?

Thanks, Anthony

[SaFrOuT]

i don't think u can find a better fan, cause using the stock fan with the supplied controller is good enough to get silence when u want and high performance when u want

[antonfrompresto]

Well the case fans will be rotating at 2000 rpm so I would probably run the cpu cooler fan at 2000 rpm almost all of the time. I'm quite certain that the Sharkoon fan would be quiter but I'm unsure if the noise of air rushing between the fins would be greater than the sound of the fan, if so it would make replacing the fan pointless.

[lowfat]

Don't know about the Sharkoon, but i do know Yate Loons performed horribly on my Tuniq. They are just too low speed for that heatsink.

[mcoleg]

i did a little comparo here:

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=497854