<div dir="ltr">I have a mixture of noctua and 'be quiet' fans in my blade 2500, keeps it plenty cool while endlessly compiling infinities for a broken gentoo install. The difference in noise was absolutely shocking, I wish I'd have measured, but it's near silent now at idle. I have grand plans to do the same to a blade 2k, but I'm not overly optimistic given its more hardcore architecture.<div><br></div><div>A while back I had a speed sensor issue with a fan replacement, it turns out you can feed fake timing data with a 555 timer circuit. That said, in that application I didn't care about cooling as much, and IIRC I ended up just ignoring the fan failure light.</div><div><br></div><div>-mark</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 4:52 PM Dave McGuire <<a href="mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com">mcguire@neurotica.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2/10/23 12:12, vom513 via rescue wrote:<br>
> Hopefully not too much of a tangental question for this thread - has anyone tried Noctua fans that all the kids nowadays are using ? They have a reputation for being very quiet and not sacrificing airflow.<br>
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I generally don't put a lot of stock in the ranting and raving of the <br>
gamer kids, but I've used these Noctua fans in a few different <br>
applications, and I'm absolutely amazed by them. Serious fluid dynamics <br>
engineering has gone into these things. They are worth every penny, no <br>
joke, and no gamer-kid-in-mom's-basement BS.<br>
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Note that I stopped short of saying they "blew me away". ;)<br>
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-Dave<br>
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ<br>
New Kensington, PA<br>
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