Power supply fans

[volton]

Tell me if i am wrong but am i the first to use fans ripped out of old power supplys in my rig?? If so , they cool really well for no extra money !!!! hehe

" overclocking = better value "

 

[ejsmith2]

Nope. But did you rip out the Al heatsinks and mount them on your hard drive too?

 

[TheSandman]

all the 80mm fans in my system came from power supplies.

SANDMAN

 

[Crashman]

I usually recommend them to people looking for a cheap, quiet, good performing case fan. The best quality fans you can get came in power supplies!

Suicide is painless...........

 

[Guest]

Hmm, i was going to go the opposite way... I have a Sunon fan on my mc462 right now and hopefully the Delta should be here any day. I was going to take the stock psu fan and toss it, then put the Sunon in there. I think the Sunon 80mm fans put out about 46cfm, I'm guessing the one in my no-name psu (Deer something or another) is around 26cfm. If I could find a place that sells the Deltas (68cfm) I'd buy one of them and put in there. That sob puts out some heat!

This cooling crap is addictive...

 

[ejsmith2]

This cooling crap is addictive...

Yep. I've always liked thermodynamics. I especially like the people who rip stuff out of their car/attic/psu/calculator and use it on their computer.

Ever watch 'Junkyard Wars' on the telly?

 

[Crashman]

You can special order high power fans of coarse, but the run of the mill computer store fanse are usually noisy and do not output well, do to cheap parts and pore design. So the best ORDINARY fans come out of power supplies.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[volton]

Geez it is still going !!!!!! Really quite, noiseless to.
Not bad for no outlay.
Need to replace the sticky tape for heatshrink someday on
the joins

" overclocking = better value "

 

[TheSandman]

One of the 80mm fans in mine is from a 286 power supply guessing about 40cfm and very quiet.

SANDMAN

 

[Unolocogringo]

guilty here also. I'm still using one from a 386 portable,too big to be called a laptop, and still running quiet as ever.

I aint signing nothing!!!

 

[volton]

got my eye on my dads extict 386 power supply... hehe

" overclocking = better value "