Thermaltake A2426 80mm Blue LED PCI SLOT Blue LED FAN

Pros: I spent a long time trying to find 2 PCI-based fans that I could install to help cool my two 8800GTS SLI cards. I wanted to mount them so that they drew air across the back of the card and out the back of the case. No existing fan seemed to provide this. I ordered these because I thought that they were reversed (it turns out the picture was misleading since the case is transparent). HOWEVER, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could very CAREFULLY separate the fan from the PCI slot mount and reverse it! Now I have exactly what I wanted AND two more blue LEDs in my case. With these as exhaust and a side window fan as input, I've cut 5-7 degrees off of my GPU temperatures.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: Very nice product for what I want it to do. Thermaltake once again gets my business.

Pros: Does a good job of exhausting the hot air from the video card in the PC it went into, and it looks nice doing it. Thermaltake quality so you don't have to worry (as much) about the fan crapping out on you within a couple months.

Cons: A bit noisy; read other thoughts.

Overall Review: I could hear this fan clearly over all the others in my PC, including the fan on the taller-sized stock Core 2 Duo cooler. To fix it, I simply put a 25 ohm, 2 watt resistor in-line with the power wire, like this: =====--|||||||||--===== That lowers the voltage to 9 volts instead of 12: problem solved. One could always use a 20 ohm for less speed reduction or a 30 ohm for more, etc. Just make sure the resistor can handle at least 1w of power.

Pros: does exactly what it's supposed to do, lights up and blows air. it's a beautiful brilliant blue. fan runs quiet, pushes alot of air. i was skeptical at first when i bought it, but now i love it, planning on buying 2 more to maximize air flow.

Cons: they used UPS and not teleportation... what? teleporters dont exist yet?

Overall Review: 1.21 gigawatt's!

Pros: Simple, quiet. I had 3 case fans BEFORE I put 2 of these in to remove accumlated hot air from around 2 7950GT's and a AverMedia TV tuner card. Recording tv while playing games would cause the temperature to skyrocket. I also put a 'squirrel cage' fan inbetween them. So decibles was important and I already had 2 blue leds.

Cons: Doesn't move the most air of this type of fan, but you can still feel the hot air blowing out when you put your hand next to it.

Overall Review: Blue LED. Also, I don't know if it is intentional, but this fan is easily reversible. The plastic pins that hold the metal on can be squeezed, top and bottom, to release their hold. One on top, one on bottom, nowhere for hot air to hide.

Pros: It moves air, is cheap, and has cool LEDs.

Cons: Installing was harder than expected, as it's rather flimsy. Once it's installed, however, I encountered no further problems.

Pros: Smaller and quieter than other slot fans, perfect for a small mini itx case (compare much more powerful, solidly built AOC model which moves double the air but is high rpm on the bearings and much louder). I know it's cheesy, but I love the blue led glow... I'd like to think it would go out if the fan stopped turning, but nothing in the packaging implies it is anything other than cosmetic. Bracket is easily reversible.

Cons: Bracket is looser (has some instability) than other models. No motherboard case fan connector with speed sensor, just hardwired molex extender.

Pros: Fan spins Pretty blue LEDs

Cons: Barely pushes any air Conventional fan design seems sub-optimal

Overall Review: I've had good luck with Thermaltake products in the past, but this thing is a joke. I bought it to help ventilate the dead space in the lower rear of my older ATX case, but this fan is almost completely ineffective. In a case with negative air pressure, it would probably fail to move any air at all. Shouldn't this sort of cooler use a centrifugal blower instead of a regular bladed fan?

Pros: -Nice Blue Light -Long cable -Works

Cons: -Not a big fan -Doesn't make a huge impact on cooling anything individual

Overall Review: This fan provides my case another vent for warm air and for $7 it does exactly what I wanted. Not for extra cooling of anything specific but worked well enough to pull a little heat out of the case.