POLL: How Many Fans Does Your System Have?

[Shadal]

Was sitting here thiking about my cooling system, and realized that so far i've got 8 fans in my mid-tower ATX case.. LOL.. Figure what the heck.. can never have too many fans, right?

So.. How many fans have you got in your system?
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3 - case fans (front, side, back)
1 - Power Supply fan
2 - Hard Drive Fans
2 - Processor Fans (Dual Processors)
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8 - Fans total

[golfcart]

1 80mm front fan, 1 80mm power supply fan, 1 cpu fan, and last but definately not least, 1 15" oscilating fan pointed directly towards the case lol http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Bsdboy]

3 - case fans (front, side, back)
2 - Power Supply fans
2 - Hard Drive Fans
1 - Processor Fan
1 - Video Card Fan
1 - Northbridge Fan
1 - Sound Card Fan
1 - Slot Fan
1 - Fan Blowing Across Slots
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13 - Fans Total

Bsdboy

[CMonster]

Which system? My "grafixbox" has 4, others have 2/3

[Shadal]

golfcart,
LOL, sounds like my old computer.. had to have a desk fan blowing on the back of the case so the thing wouldn't overheat and crash on me..

CMonster,
2/3 fans?? is that 2 or 3 or two thirds a fan?? LOL

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[No Limit]

2 Intake fans
2 Exhaust (One of them is on my power supply
1 On the video card
1 case fan adapted to fit on my heatsink

A total of six.

[NDC]

Too many! I wish I could just get rid of them! It sounds like a dang helicopter when my system's running! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[card_magic]

My system has more fans than the Backstreet Boys. <Buddump-CHING!>

[kite]

mine has two or atleast the one I'm using a heatsink fan and a power supply fan

[RobRich]

Primary Workstation:

1 Case Fan (3.5k rpm 4")
2 Bay Fans (7k rpm 60mm each)
2 PSU Fan (3.5 rpm 4" each)
1 Vid Fan (3k rpm 40mm)
1 CPU Fan (~6k rpm 60mm)
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7 total fans

Definitely not like it was during the socket7 days, I remember having 20+ fans in one of my K6-2 boxes. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[RobRich]

dp

[This message has been edited by RobRich (edited 06-14-2001).]

[charmler]

My raid has 4 case fans(3 in-1 out), two PS fans(both out), One Video fan, cpu, and one controller fan. My play toy has 2 case fans, both in, PS blowing out, video card, cpu, controller(on board).

[Dove19983]

1 80mm intake on front
1 80mm blowing on to hardrive
1 80mm out-take
1 80mm PS fan
1 CPU fan
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5

[wing7788]

4

[AuraEdge]

I don't have that many...mine's an always on system thats about 3 feet from my bed

80mm Intake @ 2000RPM (Sunon 2.0v)
80mm Exhaust @ 2000RPM (Sunon 2.0v)
120mm Powersupply Intake @ ?RPM (Enermax)
80mm Powersupply Exhaust @ ?RPM (Enermax)
50mm Northbridge Fan @ ?RPM (Abit KT7A-RAID)
50mm Graphics Chipset Fan @ ?RPM (Tennmax Lasagna on Geforce2 GTS)
~60mm CPU Fan @ 4600RPM (Agilent Articooler)
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7 Fans

Wow thats more fans than I thought...

I have 2 Slotfans and a 2x120mm CardCoolerXT in a box, but realized they didn't help much in my system/environment, so I took 'em out to lower noise.

I remember with my old P2 350. I couldn't settle for a measly 434Mhz stable. If I overclocked to 497Mhz, I would need the 19" Oscillating fan blowing in it to not crash. I remember going to sleep or going out and coming back to find out my mom turned off the fan and a BSOD on my monitor. Happened about 3 times. I then decided to get me a $50 Alpha (forgot the model name..the Slot1 One). No more crashes!

[[Neo770]]

I have a total of five fans.

1. front intake
2. side intake
3. CPU fan
4. PSU fan
5. G-force fan

[Sweeper]

3 case fans
Power supply fan
CPU fan
Video card fan

[zgf2022]

3 intake
2 exhaust
1 cpu

[Hellmund]

2 case fans, one blowing on the Cpu, one on the Vidcard
1 5000rpm fan on the cpu
1 4000rpm fan on northbridge
1 4000rpm fan on the Wid card
1 PS fan @?
all in all 6 fans.

[linux_guru]

1 FOP32-1 on CPU
1 80mm in front of case.
1 80mm in rear of case.
1 90mm in PSU.

[Gibbo]

1 PSU fan
1 CPU fan
2 Case fans (1 sucking air in the other blowing out)
&
1 GFX card fan

5 in total

[This message has been edited by Gibbo (edited 06-14-2001).]

[club_med]

1- power supply
1- cpu
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=2.

cm.

[beard]

PIII - 7
P166 - 1

[Keegan]

As you people may remember, I am a real cooling buff. I have a Sunon 80mm case fan in the front (I gave the old Yate Loon fan to my Grandpa), a Sunon 92mm fan in the fan-duct assembly, a Top Motor/Dynaeon Industrial 80mm fan in my power supply (Antec PP253x), a Golden Orb with a 60mm Everflo fan (standard), an Adda 40mm fan/heatsink on my 3D Blaster TNT2 Ultra, and a 60mm Yate Loon fan to blow the hot air away from the graphics card heat sink.

=6 fans.

[hawkeye177]

6

[MrBaseball]

3, 1 case, 1 power supply, 1 cpu

[fshanda]

3-80mm intake fans
3-80mm exhaust fans
1-60mm cpu fan
1 power supply fan
1 video card fan

I think I have enough to keep things cool.

Fshanda http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[LordLocksley]

1 intake
1 power suply
2 CPU
1 Video

5

[Kuasimodem]

Antec KS282+ case

1 80mm CoolerMaster (lower front, intake)
1 80mm CoolerMaster (rear by processor, exhaust
1 80mm CoolerMaster (replacing PS fan)
1 Antec Slot Fan (below vid card, exhaust)
1 Blue Orb on Radeon LE
1 Blue Orb on Northbridge chip
2 Fans on CPU (Super Orb)

Yes, it sounds like a Piper Cub on takeoff, but it's only running 30C idle and 43 at 100% (900T-bird).

[This message has been edited by Kuasimodem (edited 06-14-2001).]

[tarpat1]

3 case fans
Power supply fan
CPU fan
Video card fan

[Barney]

At the moment I have only 8 fans in my case. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[No Limit]

Retail companies like IBM and HP do a poor job in providing proper cooling on their computers. My IBM computer which has a P3 500mhz processor has only a fan on the heatsink and the HP computer which has a P233mmx processor has a huge heatsink on it with a shroud over it and a 80mm case fan blowing air onto the heatsink.

[Imperion1]

1 Front Intake 90mm
2 Side Panel Intakes 90mm
1 Rear Out 90mm
2 Power Supply Outs (Dual Power Supply)
1 Power Supply In 80mm
1 Delta Black Label 60mm(HS)
1 50mm on AMD761 Chipset
1 Blue Orb on Graphics Card

Thats 10 fans



[This message has been edited by Imperion1 (edited 06-14-2001).]

[nickp]

you all boasted about the number of fans you have.And yet,you haven't said if they really
perform the job.
My pc is equiped with 5 fans;it's still running hot.

[Imperion1]

My system hits 39*C at full load. 35*C at idle.

[Bsdboy]

My system temps are:
Case - 26c
CPU(PIII 800@1152) - 32.7 Running Genome
Noise level is less than 50db (My db meter can't measure below 50db)

Bsdboy

[SoopaStar]

one million six hundred and thirty-four thousand, three hundred and twelve.
Paul

[Mr Miyagi]

1 5" Case Fan (Front)
1 CPU Fan (K6-2 333 @ 400MHz)
2 2.5" Hard Drive Fans (2 SCSI Drives)
1 486 CPU fan on 3dfx Vodoo3 2000
and of course the power supply fan.

6 Total in full AT Tower Case

[Szech]

I used to have eight:
1 in the power supply (loud)
1 on the processor (medium)
3 on the hard drives (medium)
1 on the video card (quiet)
1 intake in the front (medium)
1 exhaust in the back (loud)

This was way too noisy for me, and it's because of this that I began my plans for a silent computer. In the system I am currently building, I will have one fan. At that, it is an 80mm Panaflo L1A (21 dBa). I am relocating the power supply to the bottom front, and the fan will suck through a heater core (water cooled system http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif ), and blow onto the power supply. The only exhaust in the case will be through another massive heater core (from a 1970 Delta Oldsmobile). This is my way of killing three birds with one fan. I may take some aluminum to shop to make bigger heatsinks for the power supply (since I don't know how it will cope with having hot air spewed on it), or I might just build some small water blocks for the VRMs, I haven't decided yet.

[Mistr2]

2 intake
2 exhaust
2 HDD cooler
2 CPU cooler
1 video card

9 fans

[Comage]

I once had 9 fans. CPU is a P3 650@806 @ 1.7 V. Idle temperature was my room temperature, and max load temp. was less than 46.

After long months of researching and repositioning, I finally managed to maintain that temperature, all with just 2 fans.

So I have 2 fans now. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[vintron]

1 PS fan
1 custom made Voodoo cooler
1 Case front intake fan
1 Delta (screemer!!!) with lowered voltage for my Duron

so that's 4 fans

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Spartacus]

3

[800XL]

I like to call it my "cone of silence", keeps the noise from the rest of the house out quite well.

1 x 120mm intake (out of an old Compaq 286)
2 x Gamma28s exhausting over the cards
1 x Avvid HS w/Shicoh metal bladed fan on Video
1 x YS-Tech 60mm breathing for the Alpha PAL6035
1 x 92mm case fan intaking over the drives
2 x 92mm power supply fans in the 300Watt PS with thermal alarm. (It NEVER goes off for some reason)

I used to have another Gamma working as exhaust near the top of the case, but the mounting was never quite right and it didn't seem to do much.

[bhess]

1 ps fan
2 case fans--turned off now.
1HSF

[ilcm]

3...

1 power supply fan
1 factory socket a fan
1 box fan duct taped to the side of the case

cost: $10
system: temperature very cool

[n715dp]

2 Power Supply Fans (80mm, one in, one out)
1 92mm Exhaust Fan (above P/S)
2 80mm

[n715dp]

2 Power Supply Fans (80mm, one in, one out)
1 92mm Exhaust Fan (above P/S)
2 80mm Exhaust Fans (middle of back)
1 Card Cooler Fan (92mm I think)
1 80mm Intake Fan (Front Bottom)
2 80mm Hard Drive Fans (mounted IN HD brackets)
1 CPU Fan (Chrome Orb)
1 Video Card Fan (TNT2Ultra)
6 25mm Intake Fans (mounted in 5.25 bays)

Total : 17 Fans...


This case is great... not noisy at all, check it out here...http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/cases/antecsx1240/printable.shtml

[This message has been edited by n715dp (edited 06-16-2001).]

[CyberManic]

Currently 4 only, did have more but too noisy.
I have come to realise it's not the number of fans you have but how you use them.
I now have the standard Power Supply setup at top of the case, a 80mm fan at front bottom of the case for intake.
But the best thing I have done for a long time with my system (1gig T/Bird 266) is to connect my Global Win HSF up to a duct that draws the hot air directly out the back of the system using another 80mm fan.
All I did was make a card board duct that fits around the cooler, leaving the fan to suck cool air from inside the case, down to the motherboard back to the case where i positioned the 80mm fan.
Result 4deg drop in CPU temp.

[Brangwen]

Man, lots of wind getting blown...

Athlon System:

- Taisol Copper HS with FOP32 fan
- 80 mm front intake fan
- Slot exhaust fan below GeForce card
- fan on GeForce card
- Exhaust fan on HS
- Case 60mm exhaust fan in back

- 6 fans: 1.3 @ 1.5 (85F to 127F)

Intel PIII System:

- Stock fan on 600E CPU
- 80mm front intake fan
- HS exhaust fan

- 3 fans: 600 @ 600 (85F - 95F)

Brangwen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif


I'd like to put a fan on the Northbridge chip, but haven't gotten round to it.

[Shagnasty]

Let's see
1 Power Supply Standard
3 80mm Case Fans (Rated 50cfm)
1 Golden Orb for the PIII 1.0gb
(Never seen higher than 32C.)
1 Mini Orb for the Abit Siluro GF2 MX Video
Hmmm, I need more. I've noticed that my
4-40gb 7200rpm ata100 HD's have been a little
warm to the touch...I think maybe I need to
mount an intake to blow through them...I
don't really see putting a fan on my Sound
Card? Soundblaster Live Platinum...Never
had a heat problem from a Sound Card...but
you never can tell...It's Cool to be Cool...

[hawkeye177]

will there ever be a day where we will stop puting fans into our computers.

[Tekkitan]

1 cpu fan (slot1)
1 blue orb on geforce2 mx 32mb
1 slot fan (exhaust) below video card
1 front fan
1 power supply fan

5 fans total

[Imperion1]

Not enough in mine yet. My earlier post shows 10, but its not enought yet. The computer is still on the ground. I'm trying to get that hover mode to start working.
Can barely hear my computer across my house.
So I either need to add more fans or get some louder ones.


Uh, misspelled is. Fingers did some walking.


[This message has been edited by Imperion1 (edited 06-17-2001).]

[F4_Hunter]

- Four 80mm case fans (2 in front, 2 in back)
- 60mm CPU fan
- Video card fan
- Blower for video card
- 80mm HD cooling fan
- Power Supply Fan
- Tiny 30mm on my removible HD case

[madfish]

1-psu
2-intake front-92mm's
2- exhust-120mm's [very loud fans] they plug into the wall outlet [110-120 volt]
1-g/force card
1-cpu
1-HDD fan cooling unit [has three mini fans]for my new 40 gig ata/100 HDD
my computer room gets hot thats why so many fans. I did away with the 3 slot fans when I got the 92mm's and the 120's..madfish
Edit: oops wrong fan size


[This message has been edited by madfish (edited 06-17-2001).]

[elroy]

Some of these responses would be funny if you were joking around but I'm sure you guys are serious. When you get done wiring up all the new fans you bought this week maybe you should get a dictionary and look up the word OBSESSION.

[AdamP]

I have a total of nine fans in my PIII/850.

[Bob The Great]

5 fans.
2 with heat sink on CPU
2 case fans (one in side blowing on AGP slot)
1 on GeForce