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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 18.52 inches | | Product Width: | 18.12 inches | | Product Height: | 14.78 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.45 pounds | | Package Length: | 6.8 inches | | Package Width: | 5.7 inches | | Package Height: | 1.2 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 16 reviews |
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| | Features | Does not generate noise or vibration in Silent Mode.It is a case fan product.Provides pleasant environment by restraining vibrations with the use of vibration-preventing silicone pins.
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 cool and quiet Feb 18, 2010
Cool and quiet. Easy to install. It's obviously very well made as case fans go, not cheap or flimsy. Connects easily to your motherboard's system plug. There's a little adapter with it for some other kind of system plug. The silicon screws are actually these stretchy things you pull through the frame and then the fan until they lock squishily into place. I'm pleased.
 Good quality but some noise Feb 07, 2010
This fan is very good quality from zalman but after some hours working it makes some noise and all over working is good.
Great fans Nov 20, 2009
After installing two of these fans to my case it cooled everything about 7c which is great. My cpu runs cooler,my video card runs cooler,and my motherboard runs cooler. I am very happy with this case fan theyre really quiet. The only thing i didnt like about it was the installation of the silicone pins.
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Lives Up to Its Reputation But ... Nov 02, 2009
I bought this fan because of its reputation for quietness, and it lives up to that characteristic very well. But installing it with the silicone mounting pins was a real headache. And the installation instructions come with no hints about how to make it easier. Just a drawing -- you know, one those language-free instruction sheets!
The four silicone pins each have two separated mounting slots -- one for the case and another for the fan. The distance between the two slots is what keeps the fan from touching the case and creating unwanted vibrational noise. But stretching and compressing the pins to fit the holes in the case (first) and the fan (second) is anything but easy. Every step along the way I worried about snapping a pin because I had to tug on and stretch them quite a bit to set them into their slots. I used a water-based lube and a small screwdriver to help slip them into place in the case, but the lube also made them hard to hold onto at the other end and tug through the case and the fan. I remedied this by holding on to the pins with a piece of paper towel. Ultimately I was able to install all four pins without snapping one off, which seemed like a small miracle to me. With hindsight I can see that the pins are tough and malleable. They have to be to take the installation abuse.
However, I'm sure that the pros who install these fans all the time have an easier way to do it. Or maybe they just have a lot of extra pins laying around and don't worry about snapping one (which I'm sure happens). I just wish the instructions would have come with some hints on how to make it easier for us "one-time Charlies" to set the pins correctly. And maybe an extra pin in the package would help to relieve some stress.
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Great fan for the price Oct 20, 2009
The Zalman fan operates at one of two speeds. With quiet mode, you get 900 RPM. That should be fast enough to give you about 32 CFM of air flow. At 1800 RPM, you can hear the fan, but it's not terribly loud. You would not want that speed in a media center computer, but you'd get about 63 CFM of air flow. Compare that to the cubic feet of your computer chassis and you can see that it's a lot.
I would have preferred a 3 speed fan. A middle speed would work fine for many PCs that are loaded with more than the basic number of peripherals.
Although the fan is not variable speed, the quiet speed in a two fan case would move quite a bit more air than a PC would typically need. You might get 150% or more of the air you need. Slowing down the fan below the slow speed wouldn't save much in terms of noise or power, given that both are low to start with. Speeding up is something you are unlikely to need with that configuration, but you have that option.
If the slow speed is not enough for you and you don't want to hear a fan, look at variable or tri-speed fans instead. If you want pretty colors, this fan also comes in three brightly lit colors. But if you want a basic fan that runs quietly, costs little, and gives you the air flow you need, this is a good choice.
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