Have you ever tried undervolting it? The TPU review had it at 1.15V at 3D load (1050MHz) and if you can it down to 1.1V, 1.05V or even 1.00V you would save a lot of power and heat (roughly 30W, 50W or even 75W). Tricky part is finding the min stable voltage but Afterburner or similar and first a -25mV offset, then -50mv etc., run Heaven or something to test stability, when you find the min voltage, go back and add 25mv to it.
For case fans, I think with open-air AIB coolers the exhaust fan is the more important. When I looked into case fans, Corsair didn't score well. This is 112.22m³/h for 25.5dB(A).
AFAIR, the best in terms of m³ per dB(A) at 140mm was the Nanoxia Deep Silence NDS140 1800RPM (max) which moved 166.9m³ for only 20.8dB(A). The Fractal Design Venturi HD-14 is about equal to the Corsair at 26.5dB(A) but does almost twice the volume at 200.8m³/h. In fact, those Xigmatek 140mm fans which go for under £4 on ebay as case pulls (item number: 281988512223) are 147.9m³/h @ 27dB(A).
New2Deals
13 Jul 16#14
£18.29 now sadly.
fariain to New2Deals
13 Jul 16#16
Ah, that sucks. So it was a pretty good deal.
fariain
13 Jul 16#15
Ok. You seem to know what you're talking about so I'm going to bother you for a minute. Flubit has since offered me the new ML140 for £24 for the dual pack. That works out at just under £4 more per fan than the deal I got with the AF140. Do you recommend I go for them instead? I'll be using a PWM splitter to connect it to my motherboard.
fariain
13 Jul 16#13
Well. My motherboard only has 3 fan connectors and 2 are in use. I bought a splitter on Amazon too and the consensus was that they would still work with software/bios fan changes. So that was my plan.
DevilzGtr
13 Jul 16#12
Oh wow, they were fast to bring them to market. I thought it would take a few months.
polarbaba
13 Jul 16#11
unless you can plug it into the motherboard
and have your motherboard control the fan via software or bios.
still worth it.
my previous setup was quite old and i was abke to connect a total of 4 fans and control them via bios.. i used the silent setting rather than performance.
cheers.
DevilzGtr
13 Jul 16#8
Good deal. Personally, I'm waiting for corsair's newly announced magnetic levitating fan tech.
I found a chart once which catalogued the noise and static air pressure of fans. I found that the Deep Silence fans offered best performance, lowest noise and bang for buck.
fariain
13 Jul 16#7
Ive got the Asus DC 2. Aka, the worst offender for overheating.
crofter
13 Jul 16#3
Nice one - I know Corsair have just released new fans to the market so could always be a chance that these fans will be discontinued ... personally I always go for PWM fans and these run @1,000 rpm unless you have a fan controller.
fariain to crofter
13 Jul 161#6
Ah. I spent ages researching fans in my tired state at 2am, but I never actually realised these aren't PWM fans. So they're just going to run the same speed constantly?
xela333
13 Jul 16#5
These will help a little but the 290x is known to be a very hot card. Are you using one with a stock cooler?
stovy
13 Jul 16#1
Very tempting but would bequiet Pure Wing fans still not be a better purchase?
I need to get a few 140mm fans and trying to decide...
fariain to stovy
13 Jul 16#2
I've genuinely no idea. I loaded up GTA V tonight for the first time in months and was reminded that my Asus 290x is actually jet engine in the heat department and figured I should get some extra fans. And the AF140 seems to get great reviews where ever I go.
xela333 to stovy
13 Jul 16#4
All the reviews ice read have placed the corsair fans higher than the bequiet range. I'd get this one any day
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Also worth noting that Flubit offered £7.77 from the same supplier, Gameseek.
Edit: £8.55 now.
Edit: looks like it's back up to full price....I've no idea how to end the offer through the app.
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An initial review by Guru3D can be found here, posted 4 hours ago http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/corsair-ml-magnetic-levitation-fan-review,1.html
The pair you found on Scan is on Amazon too for £26.99 with free delivery.
For case fans, I think with open-air AIB coolers the exhaust fan is the more important. When I looked into case fans, Corsair didn't score well. This is 112.22m³/h for 25.5dB(A).
AFAIR, the best in terms of m³ per dB(A) at 140mm was the Nanoxia Deep Silence NDS140 1800RPM (max) which moved 166.9m³ for only 20.8dB(A). The Fractal Design Venturi HD-14 is about equal to the Corsair at 26.5dB(A) but does almost twice the volume at 200.8m³/h. In fact, those Xigmatek 140mm fans which go for under £4 on ebay as case pulls (item number: 281988512223) are 147.9m³/h @ 27dB(A).
and have your motherboard control the fan via software or bios.
still worth it.
my previous setup was quite old and i was abke to connect a total of 4 fans and control them via bios.. i used the silent setting rather than performance.
cheers.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/corsair-magnetic-levitation-fans-gpu,news-53165.html
These will help a little but the 290x is known to be a very hot card. Are you using one with a stock cooler?
I need to get a few 140mm fans and trying to decide...
All the reviews ice read have placed the corsair fans higher than the bequiet range. I'd get this one any day