Arctic P14 MAX fans

[BoggledBeagle]

I got a pack of these fans, just a short remark, that once mounted on a rad pushing air, having nothing close to them in the front, they seem to be very quiet, you mostly can just hear wind noise (given their power you get a lot of wind noise).

Unfortunately pulling air from the rad causes pretty loud buzzing sound. I am afraid that having objects close in front of them (as parts of the case walls etc) will severely limit the speeds you will be able to use them with.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Or get a fan shroud or rubber fan gasket that spaces your fan away from the radiator a little

 

[LabRat 891]

I believe what you're stumbling into, is the reason many old WCers would use 'gutted' same-size fans as a Plenum/Spacer.

Axial type fans can't develop much pressure/vacuum, and easily get disrupted by backpressure or obstruction. Still, P14s are fantastic

 

[BoggledBeagle]

I found some 7mm thick rubber spacers, I even destroyed a regular P14 by accident a while ago and kept the frame!

I made a youtube video:

You can hear the ringing when running more fans in the same time (I guess it is normal), and the spacers seem to work only when I used two of them.

 

[LabRat 891]

I found some 7mm thick rubber spacers, I even destroyed a regular P14 by accident a while ago and kept the frame!

I made a youtube video:

You can hear the ringing when running more fans in the same time (I guess it is normal), and the spacers seem to work only when I used two of them.

Looks like,
moar spacer (plenum) = moar quieter