Vantec Tornado 80mm Double Ball Bearing High Air Flow Case Fan - Model TD8038H

Pros: Major wind out of these. No vibration. Mount well. The sound from it is loud, but it doesn't vary, and there's not any major frequency spikes that would really hurt. It's not perfectly white noise, but that's probably impossible.
With 7 of these fans on, I was able to overclock as high as I think air cooling would allow.

Cons: Too loud. I needed to put it outside my office, but I just didn't want to take the time to build a separate conditioned space in the shop to keep it in.

Other Thoughts: Switching to water cooling.

Pros: Fantastic little fans. Moves lots of air, very impressed using these in my custom built rack-mount server.

Cons: None

Pros: Removed Heat from the Computer Case in a very profient way.

Cons: This case fan is VERY loud. About the only place this would work out is an human unoccupied room. Such as a large server room.

Pros: moves tons of air
used 2 in my koolance water cooling unit for my computer, running 100% speed 24/7 for 5 years not an issue!!!

Cons: none as of 5 years

Pros: This fan gives the maximum amount of cooling for the noise. I mounted it to a radeon 4870 and am quite pleased. (Much tweekage required.)

Cons: It has to be flicked to get started, and occasionally fails. Hopefully the next one will work better.

Other Thoughts: I want to give this fan 5 stars, it is quieter than the delta fan and moves more air. But what good is it if it doesn't work...? Will repost after RMA

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Pros: AMD A4-3300, OCed to 3.0
8gigs of DDR3-1333 OCed to 1600.
2 1tb HDs.


Pros are obvious. Pushes a ton of air for a small fan. I currently have one as a back exhaust, though it's unplugged until I receive my other 2 and my fan controller. I plan on having one on the side as intake, and 2 in the back as exhaust. The ONE that I have in now, would keep everything in my desktop about 3 degrees celsius cooler. Without the fan, my cpu stays at about 8c idle, my mobo stays 36, and my gpu (actually still part of the cpu) stays at about 8. I can only imagine how well 3 will work. I also plan on getting another one to replace my cpu fan with. However, I will need a new fan controller if I do that.

Cons: I refuse to call how loud this fan is a 'con'... If you seriously don't know what dBa is, then get the heck off of the fan section of Newegg. You should have known what you were buying, right off the bat. Get over it. I do think this should have a built in fan controller. But meh. Definitely does what it's meant to.

Pros: This fan is amazing. Yes its loud, but for how much air it moves, I don't care. The server we put 2 of these into is in a rolling rack, and the first time I turned the server on with these, I thought the rack was going to start rolling away. It sounded like I installed two jet engines into the rack. Not complaining, since I knew they were loud, just saying I started to laugh and told my friends that we may need to get some locking wheels so it doesn't roll away.

Cons: No cons on the fans other than all the people who don't read that these things are LOUD then complain about how loud they are. Not the fan's fault, but the people who don't read the product description's fault.

Other Thoughts: I purchased two of these to add to a 4U rackmount case. The case only had 2 case fans on it, a 120 at the front that moved a little air, and a 120 in the power supply blowing the air out the back of the case. The computer has a six core AMD CPU, and with the configuration of the motherboard and case, the heat comes of the CPU heatsink and directly into the power supply. When the system was under load, the air out the back of the power supply was almost hot enough that you could not keep your hand there. It was not good for the PSU. After installing these fans, I made a small modification so the air from the CPU cannot get back to the power supply, but has to go out through the back of the case. It now runs much cooler, and I don't have to worry about the PSU catching fire.

Also, these fans are a little deeper than your standard 80mm fans, so keep that in mind when you order them.

Pros: Finally, a fan made for real men! This fan is loud, and sucks air out like no other. You can feel thrust if you turn them on and hold them in your hand. The air is not even hot because it doesn't have time to get hot! Worth buying if you got rackmounted equipment and you need to get that heat out FAST.

Cons: Beware, these things are L-O-U-D. Her a hair dryer, turn it on where you intend to install these bad boys. If you can't stand the hair dryer noise, don't buy these fans.

Other Thoughts: None. they rock, price is incredible. A must have for any 24/7 build.

Pros: This fan all be-it louder than my vacuum cleaner (And that is non exaggerative) really pushes a ton of air. I currently have this fan running as my Game Server CPU fan and it really does a good job keeping the system cool under full load. I just put it onto a stock AMD HeatSink, and suddenly it was performing a bit better than most mid range performance air cooling solutions I have dealt with in the past. I would reccomend this fan if you are either serious about cooling, run your computer off-site in a dedicated room of your house, or are using your computer in an environment where noise is not an issue, because this fan does have a higher Decibel level than a few consumer vacuum cleaners.

Cons: Loud, but with a purpose, which makes it allright for me.
This fan creates a rather alarming amount of thrust, That's right, I said thrust... I have tested that setting the fan on a flat surface and powering on the fan, it can travel across the surface at about half the average speed that a person walks. Leaving this fan unsecured inside a case might lead to a mechanical disaster.

Other Thoughts: DANGER!!! This fan is very dangerous without a grill on! Mine in particular managed to have enough air intake speed to SUCK my right pinkie finger into the blades and chopped off at least 1cm of my finger tip. The fan blade maintained it's integrity even after this strike.

Pros: I gave this only 4 stars because of the noise. Yes, it really does move 80cfm. Yes, it is really loud. After a year I finally replaced it with something quieter. If you're hard-up for some serious air flow in your case and don't mind the noise, hey, look no further. By the way, its REALLY LOUD! What, what did you say, I can't hear you over my case fan. After a year though it still worked like new.

Cons: ITS REALLY LOUD. Seriously, its like having a handheld vacuum inside your case.