With all the questions I have received lately on water cooling, which fans to get and how will they effect my cooling, I decided to throw together a test with a few different fans that I have lying around here. I will be running a push/pull installation with my fans for the testing. I am hoping to show differences in the fans used, or lack thereof. Yes, I know the choices of fans are just a miniscule amount considering the large number of fans on the market today.
Yes, absent is one of the most sought after fan of them all, the Gentle Typhoon AP-15. I could not get these for testing, and to be honest, did not really try, as they have been nearly impossible to find for awhile now. With the Yate Loon fans being used, I feel this will bring a somewhat solid measuring point of what the other fans need to live up to, or surpass, in order to even be considered for use in a water cooled setup. All fans are considered medium speed, even though my XSPC radiator calls for low speed, and are rated at about the same CFM. All in all, this will be a pretty even test and will find out, for sure, who wins the battle among these three fans. Enough of the jibber-jabber now, let’s get on with the good stuff!
Setup:
Hardware:
- ASUS Rampage III Extreme
- Intel 920 @ 4.3GHz / 1.33Vcore
- Silverstone TJ11
Water Cooling:
- Swiftech Apogee XT Rev2
- XSPC RX 480 Quad 120mm Radiator
- Enzotech 1/2ID – 3/4OD Black Compression Fittings
- Bitspower Water Tank Z- Multi 250
- PrimoFlex Pro Tubing 1/2ID – 3/4OD Black
- 2x Phobya Temperature Sensors
Software:
- Real Temp 3.6
- Prime95
Testing Procedure:
- Fans installed in Push/Pull (8 Fans)
- Tests ran for an hour
- Temperatures taken every minute for 60 minutes, plus a couple idle readings before/after
Fans:
Fans shown:
- Arctic Cooling F12
- Coolermaster Blade Master
- Coolermaster Excalibur
- Coolermaster Turbine Master Mach 1.8
- Enermax Magma
- Gelid Wing 12 UV Blue
- Noctua NF-12 PWM
- Noiseblocker BlackSilentFan XL2
- Thermaltake 12CM Turbo Fan
- Thermaltake Duramax 12
- Thermaltake Pure Silence ISGC Fan 12
- Thermaltake Smart Case Fan
- Thermaltake Standard Case Fan
- Thermaltake Thunderblade
- YATE LOON D12SM-12
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Thanks Miah! I am just glad I can keep getting companies that like this kind of testing.
This just keeps getting better….good job Drew
The reasone I ask Is I have the RX 360. lol Id LOVE to see what diff fans do it in I may Change!
Im Useing the Masscool in Push. I have the Haf Advanced. I have a 140 B Gears in the back of the Case They Move a TON. But It would be Nice to know which work best lol like i said I may switch everything on your Finding 
Oh and when you done with any of that stuff if you wantt o say,Give it awayId be glad to take it and Build a special rig for it.lol
I will see what I can do Pitt
Thanks for the suggestions
Try the B-gears the Masscool. and the Aprivia fans next.