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Post Date: 2011-07-25
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    Posted: 25 Jul 2011 at 5:26pm
My friend bought a Digital Storm Protus Workstation, but he made a mistake by upgrading factory fan to the Zalman fan(6 fan). It is so loud that even I couldn't stand it when I walk in to his computer room.

I am wondering will adding the fan resistor help reducing the noise down close to the default factory fan? Cause I heard default factory fan I very quiet.
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It will lower the airflow and thus lower the noise to what extent I'm not sure.

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I see, thank you DST4ME for your reply, I am wondering if it is a good idea to hook up 2 fan resistor in one fan? Cause since Zalman's RPM is much faster then the default factory fan, adding more resistor will means lowering the airflow a lot more and thus lower the noise level.
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Personally I rather spend $11 per fan and get quiet fans :

Nexus 120mm Real Silent case fan - D12SL-12 Black and white

or

just use the oem fans.

but don't put 2 of them on one fan, you can use resistors to go from 12v to 7v or 5v.

Edited by DST4ME - 27 Jul 2011 at 2:50pm

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