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07-26-2008
 motor noise
Used or using (all 120mm fans) enermax enlobal fan, noctua nf-p 12, thermal take tt-1225, vantec stealth, lian li case bundle fan and few other nameless fans (and of course this silent X ). None of the above fan had audible motor noise but this one. One of the enlobal bearing had epic fail after couple weeks and started to make grinding noise, but at least while it worked, it did not give off motor noise. Silent X, despite of its name, is anything but silent. Without any speed control the motor produces substantial noise, and with the speed control (matched to other fans rpm and/or aprox cfm) it still produces relatively high motor noise compare to other 120mm fans. It does pushes air quite a lot, but not surprising amount compare to Vantec high speed fan which with no motor noise. Blade noise and air friction noise is impressively low but it might have been the motor noise that masked it though. Construction feels significantly cheaper than noctua, but slightly better than enermax enlobal (which doesn’t mean a lot). If it wasn’t for the advertisement of theirs, I would say this is a good fan, but it does not live up to their claim and there are better choices like noctuas. If I were you, I would skip this one.
(Oh and skip enlobal series. Worst than free fan.)
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