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Roundup: 11 Fans for Two Super-Coolers and One System Case (page 12)

Category: Coolers

by Sergey Lepilov

[ 04/07/2008 | 07:35 PM ]

Technical Specifications and MSRP

The technical specifications and recommended retail price of the fans participating in our today’s roundup are summed up in a comparative table below.

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However, we decided to single out some of the key features onto separate diagrams for a more illustrative comparison.

First let’s check out the nominal fan rotation speed (hereinafter all the data is sorted out in an ascending order):

Here everything is quite logical and expected, but later you will see some rearrangements. The maximum airflow ranking looks a little bit different from what we saw on the previous diagram:

Scythe Slip Stream fan series seems to be the leader here. And so do Ultra Kaze models. They also alternate with SilverStone in the leading positions on the static pressure chart:

When it comes to the level of generated noise, the picture changes dramatically:

I would like to remind you that these are the official specifications and you shouldn’t take all these numbers for granted just yet. So, it is definitely the time for us to move on to the actual tests. But before, let’s take a closer look at the testbed we used and test methods applied.