Replacement fans for Noctua Nh-D14

[Jonathan Sifleet]

Hi, I'm upgrading my pc, and have decided to go with a Noctua Nh d14. However the fans are UGLY AS... and do not go with my theme. I'd like to know the best blue led fans for the d14. Preferably bright blue LEDs, and a shop from the UK.

 

[4Ryan6]

Hi, I'm upgrading my pc, and have decided to go with a Noctua Nh d14. However the fans are UGLY AS... and do not go with my theme. I'd like to know the best blue led fans for the d14. Preferably bright blue LEDs, and a shop from the UK.

After all the side tracking here's my 120mm blue LED fan suggestion as others have used this Aero Cool Shark on their Noctua NH-D14 with excellent cooling results, so you get the Blue LED, a perfect fit to the Noctua, and good cooling performance as well.

http://www.aquatuning.co.uk/product...nsparent-black---blue-LED--120x120x25mm-.html

 

[Jonathan Sifleet]

After all the side tracking here's my 120mm blue LED fan suggestion as others have used this Aero Cool Shark on their Noctua NH-D14 with excellent cooling results, so you get the Blue LED, a perfect fit to the Noctua, and good cooling performance as well.

http://www.aquatuning.co.uk/product...nsparent-black---blue-LED--120x120x25mm-.html

They're quite quiet, the CFM's a little low, but I'll take your word for it.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

His word on these matters is second to none.

 

[4Ryan6]

After all the side tracking here's my 120mm blue LED fan suggestion as others have used this Aero Cool Shark on their Noctua NH-D14 with excellent cooling results, so you get the Blue LED, a perfect fit to the Noctua, and good cooling performance as well.

http://www.aquatuning.co.uk/product...nsparent-black---blue-LED--120x120x25mm-.html

They're quite quiet, the CFM's a little low, but I'll take your word for it.

You requested a Blue Led fan, you need to realize that the fan manufacturers basically class fans as light attractive, performance, or high static pressure, these classes of fans have their own performance levels.

High static pressure fans are usually for radiator cooling with an out of the box setup, because they're powerful and on the loud side, most led fans use some of their supplied voltage to run the leds and they're usually not classed to high regarding CFM cooling capabilities, they're more aimed at pretty.

The performance line of fans are high CFM but still tolerable sound wise and if you were not requesting an led fan the link below would have been my first suggestion, the 120mm Scythe Slipstream 1900rpm, 110cfm for great cooling performance with the Noctua NH-D14.

http://www.aquatuning.co.uk/product...he-Slip-Stream-1900-rpm---120x120x25mm--.html

These are the fans I am presently running on my Noctua NH-D14, cooling one of my DJ machines.

 

[4Ryan6]

@ Johnathan Sifleet

Johnathan according to your sig., In all actuality a Noctua NH-D14 was serious super overkill for an i3-3220 CPU?

Not sure why you even bought a Noctua NH-D14 to cool that CPU, but you can run it in passive mode with no cooling fans on it, what so ever, and it will cool the CPU you've chosen just fine with zero noise.

I used a Noctua NH-D14 in passive mode with an AMD 965 Black Edition CPU overclocked to 3900Mhz which was the maximum overclock attainable to be able to run a Noctua NH-D14 heat sink in passive mode with no cooling fans at all for the Control Temperature, in the Cooling Fan Roundup I did for THGF.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/331629-28-cooling-roundup-2012

If it can do that with an overclocked 965BE quad core CPU, it can handle your dual core with it's proverbial hands tied behind it's back.

Why did you even buy the Noctua NH-D14 to cool an i3-3220?

 

[Jonathan Sifleet]

@ Jonathan Sifleet

Jonathan according to your sig., In all actuality a Noctua NH-D14 was serious super overkill for an i3-3220 CPU?

Not sure why you even bought a Noctua NH-D14 to cool that CPU, but you can run it in passive mode with no cooling fans on it, what so ever, and it will cool the CPU you've chosen just fine with zero noise.

I used a Noctua NH-D14 in passive mode with an AMD 965 Black Edition CPU overclocked to 3900Mhz which was the maximum overclock attainable to be able to run a Noctua NH-D14 heat sink in passive mode with no cooling fans at all for the Control Temperature, in the Cooling Fan Roundup I did for THGF.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/331629-28-cooling-roundup-2012

If it can do that with an overclocked 965BE quad core CPU, it can handle your dual core with it's proverbial hands tied behind it's back.

Why did you even buy the Noctua NH-D14 to cool an i3-3220?

Im not, I haven't bought the noctua either, yet. I'm upgrading my rig, just planning it at the moment.