Where do you guys get your fans?

[NoctisReitop]

Kind of a dumb question, but I'm wondering where you guys research / buy your case fans. I've done a lot of looking on NewEgg, and FrozenCPU, but there are so few parallels that it's quite evident to me that every site is almost going to be entirely different. Anyway, I'm doing fan research again and I was wondering if you guys had some good sites for me ^^. Thanks.

[Capper]

I'm particular about my fans, and typically only use one from the following list of companies:

Panaflo
Arctic Cooling
Noctua
Silverstone
Pabst
Antec

I personally think Panaflo is the best of the bunch, although I've become a huge fan of the Arctic Cooling liquid bearing fans. When it comes to ANTEC, I really like their Tri-Cool fans and their 200mm fan is perfect for case modding

[Yellowhello]

I like the Yate Loons because they are cheap and quiet and perform quite well for the money. I get them at Petra's Tech Shop. If you don't care about noise and performance is the main concern, these Sanyo Denki San Ace are great, but they are a bit wider.

I personally think the Noctua's are overpriced... $20 a pop?!

[NoctisReitop]

Well, not to club the corpse (for I've already made an old post about it), but my interests are geared towards replacing my ol' fans with better ones (never really got around to doing it yet). Planning on hooking them to a fan controller to keep the noise down. Noise isn't a problem, but I'd like a reasonable ratio of noise / airflow. Don't want them to simply be loud and suck. Hoping I'd find some good ones that had at least 100cfm. I figure that I can just turn them down if I don't want that much. The controller I had in mind has 7 ports and I have to keep the wattage under 70 total ("recommended"). That's pretty much where I'm at.

[Yellowhello]

The San Ace ones are at about 100CFM, but they will cost you.

[Capper]

Give us a # of fans, and sizes you need, that will help us help you get things set up optimally.

[NoctisReitop]

Sure. 3x 120mm 3x 92mm.

Edit: I think that at the very best, 2 of the 120's will need to be 25mm thick.

[Yellowhello]

Without any regards to noise, I'd get:

3x Vantec Tornado (92mm)
3x San Ace (120mm)

For something more economical, I'd get:

3x Panaflow (92mm)
3x Yate Loon (120mm)

[NoctisReitop]

Just wondering; I calculate this fan's movement of air to be 143.5464983 cfm. Am I correct? Also, is this fan as good as it looks. 1.08 watt input, 143 cfm, 19.8 dba, 6 year warranty? That sounds too good to be true!

[Yellowhello]

143CFM can't be right... especially at 20dB!