Not sure about the rules here on GS sooo I'm not gonna post any links to products. However, I will say that there are fans to be bought that are designed to be silent. A quick Internet search will show you what you need. :)
Smaller fans will make more noise. Just an example: I have 4 120mm fans in my case, and i have the small chipset fan going all the time, and I can barely hear the 120mm but can hear the chipset fan from across the room.
thanks for the replies all .. now onwards to more research, heheSnosavan24
just as a warning, fan manufacturers are free to say whatever they want about how much air/noise their fans do. some manufacturers take this as a license to completely make up numbers, or measure it in impractical ways to come up with numbers that are completely impossible. if you see a 120mm fan that spins at 1600rpm and says it's under 20 decibels, they're lying. period. certain silver fans tend to be amongst the worst offenders. they're not bad fans, but they're not miles better like they would have you believe either. places like silentpcreview put a lot of effort into measuring the real-world performance of fans vs. each other.
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