LED cooling fans steal sexy back from liquid-based solutions
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 4th 2009 8:31PM
posted Jun 4th 2009 8:31PM
posted Jun 4th 2009 8:31PM
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These have been around for a few years now...still pretty neat though.
Darren doesnt understand "Ghetto fabulous".
This is Ghetto fabulous:
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k123/Zero-Void/mcdonalds_ghetto_car.jpg
Yeah.. Reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9PU08Xuwo
Throw it on your radiator for the best of both worlds.
If that's the actual rpm of the fan, than that's freakin awesome.
"Here is one of them showing the current RPMs"
5600 is par for a casefan.
Pff, 5,500 RPMs on a fan that size would rattle like a mofo.
That's gotta be one loud ass fan then.
I guess I'm wrong then, but my BIOS always reports 5600 rpm.... *goes to investigate*
@Amun
My processor fan runs at 1800RPM on my C2D and my case fan a little over 1200RPM. 5600RPM for a fan is really high and if this fan is small, it is also one loud ass fan. Even a 80 or 108mm fan at 5600RPM is very loud cause of the CFMs that being cranked through it. The smaller fan would sound like a server fan because of the higher air resistance. A bigger 80 or 108 would sound a little like a household fan on medium or low setting.
What size of fan is that though? My case fan is reporting 800ish rpm....
[sarcasm] Actually.. it looks like its only about 5 1/2 RPM. That shouldn't rattle at all! [/sarcasm] Of course, it'd be too slow to display the LEDs too.
Apparently my bios is just reporting the max because it's stupid, and the fan isn't really running at that. =p
Pretty cool.
"Ghetto fabulous? Maybe. Nerdalicious? Totally"
Well said, if i had a place for it in my case that was visible, i'd so buy one.
Let's turn this up to eleven!
Spinners!
is it loud?
Why is the 4 backwards?
Ah nm, it's turned thataway. It looked like it was... bah, nm.
look again...
The 4 is facing the right way. Look at how the 2 and 3 are orientated then look at the 4 without turning your head sideways.(I know it hurts my brain to do that to.
these have been around for a while, plus you need fans on a water cooling radiator so this article seems... worthless.
they have passive water cooling radiators. expensive as hell though, then again most watercooling stuff is
I want one!
Here's the spec from manufacturer website:
RATED VOLAGE 12 VDC
OPERATION VOLTAGE 6~13.8 VDC
INPUT CURRENT 0.38 A
INPUT POWER 4.56 W
SPEED 2700±10% R.P.M
SPEED CONTROL TYPE -----------
SIGNAL OUTPUT FREQUENCY GENERATOR(FG)
MAX. AIR FLOW 0.98 m3/min
(AT ZERO ATATIC PRESSURE) 34.60 CFM
MAX. AIR PRESSURE 3.14 mm-H2O
(AT ZERO FLOW) 0.12 inch-H2O
ACCOUSTICAL NOISE 28 (Max 33) dB-A
where do i go about getting one of these
Hmm the RPM is interesting but I think an analog temperature gauge would be neater and more functional. Especially if you rigged one up for internal temp and one for external.
Me like!!!
But can it handle Crysis on full settings?
I somehow doubt the fan LEDs have the resolution or colour range to support Crysis, but I might be wrong.
If installed properly... I think it shouldn't be a problem on any modern HW rig.
@404: Yeah, but you'd get some killer framerates at these low resolutions!
I had a fan like this for my old case that displayed the temp in the case. Although I don't think it was programmable.
Dude. Goatse.