Scythe Gentle Typhoon 800 or 1150rpm?

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Scythe Gentle Typhoon 800 or 1150rpm?

Post by Leopardi » Sat Jul 03, 2010 11:17 am

I want to boost my coming Fractal Design R2's default cooling with a couple of gentle typhoon 120mm's. Is the 1150rpm model more quiet than Antec P180b fan at low setting? Or should I get the 800rpm one?

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Post by Leopardi » Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:56 am

nobody knows? :(

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Post by MikeC » Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:02 am

gentle typhoons aren't great, imo -- way overrated by other sites. we haven't posted an official review yet... but I strongly recommend scythe's slipstreams over the gt.

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Post by Leopardi » Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:41 am

So the Scythe Slip Stream 800 would be a good choice? What about the ticking, does this have that problem? The 19db in your review seems a bit high though...

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Post by MikeC » Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:16 am

Leopardi wrote:So the Scythe Slip Stream 800 would be a good choice? What about the ticking, does this have that problem? The 19db in your review seems a bit high though...
pay attn to when/where the measurement was done -- before the anechoic chamber.

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Post by Leopardi » Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:51 am

Ok so would you think placing a 800rpm Slip Stream in the front/back, and a 800rpm Gentle Typhoon at the top would be good? I heard the slip streams aren't good for horizontal placing.

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Post by MikeC » Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:38 am

Leopardi wrote:Ok so would you think placing a 800rpm Slip Stream in the front/back, and a 800rpm Gentle Typhoon at the top would be good? I heard the slip streams aren't good for horizontal placing.
no opin. on this one. you'll have to experiment.

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Post by Syzygies » Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:45 pm

My Gentle Typhoon 500 does exhibit ticking, but inaudible a few few away.

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Post by Syzygies » Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:48 pm

I have a pair of Gentle Typhoon 1850s on my Megahalems cpu cooler, and the performance improved at 5 volts over the previous S-FLEX F fans. Static pressure, would the Slipstreams do as well?

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