How many FANS do you have in your computer?

[nissmo300]

I have 4 not including the PSU.

- 2 intake in the front
- 2 exhaust in the back


If you guys have any pics of your case post it up...

[808smokey]

I have:
1 stock CPU fan
2 rear
2 front
1 side panel (has Spiderweb design with Fan opening.
2 Hard Drive Coolers (bolt on Fans to HD)

[redwudz]

Three in a server case. Intake in front to blow air over the HD's for cooling and 2 rear exhaust. Runs cool enough with a AMD 2500 Barton and 4 HD's, CD, DVD burners and a Zip drive.

[rallynavvie]

Uh, I have to count again.

2 intake on the chassis
1 exhaust on the chassis
2 on the PSU
2 for the HSF (one 80mm fan each)
1 on the NB
1 on my video board
1 on the Vantec swap drive
1 on the Doc5 as a HDD cooler
1 on the Pioneer DVD burner which is interesting

=12 fans in all

[hootie29]

2 intake fans
4 Hard Drive fans
2 exhaust fans
2 psu fans
1 Cpu fan
and 1- 8" fan sitting in front of the intake fans to keep cool air blowing into the cubby hole.

11 fans

hootie29

[VCDHunter]

6 Case fans in all.

Intakes -

2 side, 1 front

Exhausts -

2 top, 1 rear.

1 HSF

2 on PSU.

9 Total fans on the system, no wonder its so noisy.

[nissmo300]

12 fans in all

And you didnt go deaf yet??

[shelbyGT]

1 front intake
1 side
2 rear exhaust
1 on power supply
2 on video card
1 on mb somewhere

8 in all

[Jayhawk]

Wow, you guys use a lot of fans. Both my Pentium-4 2.4's have:

1 case fan in front
2 in power supply
1 on video card

Temps run about 30c at rest

[Solarjetman]

2 Hard Drive Coolers (bolt on Fans to HD)

Do these actually help you? I have been considering them, but am reluctant to spend the cash.

As for my system...

2 front
2 back
1 CPU
1 Video card
---------------
6 total (8 if you count the two in the PSU)

[rallynavvie]

The only thing I didn't like about some of my older fans is they made this whistling noise that could be heard over everything. After replacing all those it's more of noise that's hard to explain. I guess it just sounds like the air from a lot of fans. It reminds me of white noise. I don't mind it usually since most other computers are a lot more noticeable than mine.

The new computer will have:
1 120mm intake fan
1 120mm exhaust fan
2 80mm heatsink fans
1 NB cooler fan
1 video card fan
2 PSU fans
1 fan on the Vantec swap tray
1 fan on the Pioneer burner

=10 fans in all, but with the bigger fans moving more air with less noise I should have an overall quieter system. Every fan in the new computer is ball-bearing (except maybe the DVD drive), and I may be using Intel windtunnels for the CPUs if they actually turn out to be quieter than an 80mm setup like I have now. That and a lot of hardware is mounted on rubber or silicone spacers.

[Piccoro]

Coolmaster 80mm 2200RPM fans
2 front
2 back
2 PSU
1 on CPU heatsink (yes this is a 2200RPM fan, its on a Thermaltake SLK800 copper 'sink. 32C idle. no worries)
=
7 case fans
+
1 on gfx card

For how many fans it is really not noisy at all.
They are low RPM quiet fans.

That and a lot of hardware is mounted on rubber or silicone spacers.

I should think about doing that. It really does help.

I've always wanted a case that I could use 120mm fans in front and back but they never had the other features I wanted. I like this kingwin case a lot anyway so.

[stiltman]

1 case exhaust
1 cpu
1 video

I don't know how hot it runs, Had it for a year and it stays on 24/7 and still works fine...even after upgrading the cpu from 1.6 to 2.6 I got seagate quite drives in it and most of the time I can't even tell the thing is on. No lights or anything Just have to move the mouse to see if the monitor turns on and I see a logon screen

[budz]

2 back
1 front
1 cpu

[indolikaa]

6 HDD fans
1 Power Supply fan
1 Case fan
1 CPU fan
1 GPU fan

[mrtristan]

2 Intake, 1 on the top of my case and 1 on the rear. My power supply also has a intake fan on the inside of the case and exhause fan that vents the hot air out the back.

6 total, if you count the ps fans.

[Cobra]

Eight in total:

- Two intake, front panel at the bottom
- One intake, side panel, middle
- Blower (Coolermaster) on my Aero 7+ CPU cooler
- Graphics card fan
- One output fan on rear panel intercepting hot air from graphics card before it hits the CPU cooler
- Dual-fan PSU, extracting directly off CPU cooler

It is surprisingly quiet for all of these fans - all you can really hear is the rushing of air. It's nice and cool in that case, though!

Cobra

[tgpo]

Zero

[Cobra]

C'mon, tgpo. Even Macs have to have a CPU cooler. They aren't THAT perfect!

Cobra

[mrtristan]

His cube has a whole bunch of passive heatsinks, but no fans.

C'mon, tgpo. Even Macs have to have a CPU cooler. They aren't THAT perfect!

Cobra

[Hardcoreruss]

Two Front
Two back
One Side
Two in PSU
Two on Graphics Card
Vantex Vortex casing for main hard drive

10 Fans

11 if you count the one on the cpu

[x-kid]

i've got:

Two Front
One Back
One Top
Two in PSU
One on Video Card

7 fans total

i'm running a prometeia so i don't have one on my cpu

[birdygal]

1 side case fan , 2 front case, 1 back case, power supply has 2 fans plus the CPU fan My computer throws off so much heat I had to add a thermostat controled Window AC unit to keep the room below 75 degrees for some other critical temperature equipment I have in the room my computer monitors

[tgpo]

C'mon, tgpo. Even Macs have to have a CPU cooler. They aren't THAT perfect!

Cobra

Not mine. Mine cools by convection.

[Cobra]

I just took a look inside my trusty old Performa 6400 (180MHz flavour) and it has a little black heatsink. Cool!

I remember when we got that machine. We got it with 48MB of RAM, which was a phenomenal amount in those days. What a beauty it was! Now, it lives in my wardrobe under my shirts.

I feel a resurrection coming on!

Cobra

[flaninacupboard]

i remember the mind blowing power of my 086, it had SIXTEEEEEN colours and TWO floppy drives! (and i'm talking ******* floppy floppies, not those shit hard 3.5" pieces of crap)

I even upgraded that machine, i bought a TWENTY ONE MEGABYTE hard drive! wow!

Then my 16Mhz 386, which i upgraded the RAM (to i think 12MB) by means of about six PCI cards, coated with ram chips.

those were the days eh? wonder how quicly that 086 would complete an @home WU?

[BobV]

Total of 9

2 front (in)
1 back (out)
1 top (out)
2 harddrive (in)
1 cpu
1 Mobo
1 Powersuply

Note you always want to more in than out to keep up the pressure inside the case, this helps eliminate excessive dust inside.

[flaninacupboard]

I shall be doing some fan installing tomorrow hopefully. micro ATX case doesn't have anywhere to mount them.....

i want two in the side (one blowing on the GFX card, one onto the ram) then the cpu fansink will be ducted up to the top of the case and there will be one in the top as well. all at 5volts, because i hate noisy 12V fans! whats the point of feeding £1k worth of HiFi with an optical signal over the newtwork from your audio server when the PC doing it is creating 200dB of noise!?

[Cobra]

then the cpu fansink will be ducted up to the top of the case and there will be one in the top as well.

This was how they did it in my old Dell machine. It worked very, very well. I might give it a shot if it works well for you!

Cobra