Antec SpotCool 0761345-75018-9 Blue LED Case Fan - Retail

Works great for my NB

Reviewed By: Tim on 8/31/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Quiet on low and medium. It blows plenty of air on medium for my Northbridge heatsink.

Cons: Little expensive with shipping. The fan cord also seems a little short.

Other Thoughts: I have an Asus Maximus Formula motherboard, and a full tower case. However with my new ATI 4850 card, it really heats up my northbridge chipset bigtime. I have this fan pointed directly at the northbridge heatsink, and it does a great job of keeping the NB temperature at or below 52c at full load... Idle its at 43c. Without this fan, my NB temp would reach 64 or higher and cause my computer to reboot while playing a game.

Its quiet, I can only hear it if I set it on maximum speed (which I only hear a little of a whoosh of air blowing)

Some other review sites say theirs was hard to bend. Mine was very easy to bend, and stays in place where I bend it. The round fan itself also rotates, and has little notches to hold the angle of the fan in place.

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Rare find

Reviewed By: on 10/20/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

Pros: I was looking for a way to cool my VGA ram. I'm using the excellent ZMRHS1 heatsinks but still I couldn't keep my finger on them for more than a second. Enter the antec Spot Cool fan. I used a threaded hole in the bottom of my case, and mounted the fan's base there. The flexible arm of this fan allowed me to aim the airflow sideways to the card
so that both the top and bottom ram chips feel a healthy breeze.
Not only did my ram run cooler, but my nvidia graphics chip also dropped reported temperature from 79 to 64 degrees!

Cons: Not a con, but newegg should title this product as "Spot Cool";
as it is, this unique product doesn't stand out.

Other Thoughts: I love the flexible positioning arm!

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Really cool but......

Reviewed By: xfsos on 1/7/2010

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

Pros: It's a fan with 3 settings that can be moved within the computer case. LEDs look cool

Cons: The 3-pin connecting wire is very short so I was somewhat limited as to where I could put it. My mobo only has 2 channel fans and those are hooked up to chassis fans so I am limited to the power fan hookup. Also the flexible stand is not as stiff as I thought it was going to be. So it doesn't exactly hold where I want it.

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Works as advertised. Gets the job done.

Reviewed By: Afro_Samurai on 12/30/2009

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Mounts easy enough. Bendy so you can point it at stuff in your case. Three speeds are nice. High moves a pretty good amount of air.

Cons: Neck is made of metal and not sheithed in plastic to prevent shorting on things. Not a problem for me because I mounted it on one of the video card case mount screws but it would be had I tried to mount it to a motherboard screw close to the vid cards. The neck is a little short, could have used a few more inches to create a 90degree bend and/or be able to mount it on the motherboard and still have enough neck length to clear my video cards (plural).

Other Thoughts: I would purchase another one if I needed it. It works for me as it is so I wouldn't put to much weight on my cons. I'm using it in my 800D to move more air across my video cards. I have 3-way sli with a 4th 9800GT at the very bottom thats too close to the last 280GTX to I mounted this fan to get some air between there. Gets the job done.

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Reviewed By: on 12/5/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Pushes alot of air. Nice looking,Very flexible.

Cons: Cords isnt long enough for jack. Would be much better if they made the cord longer. It could be mounted just about anywhere if the cord was longer. I mean come on antec. What are we suppose to do with that little 6 in cord.

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