AZImmortal said:good deal. too bad they're not ball-bearing fans, which last longer.
Ball-bearing is louder. I bought 20 of these a while back and they work nice. I replaced 3 ball-bearing fans in an old Antec case of mine and it's very quiet now. Now, the new rifle bearing fans combine the reliability of ball bearing with the quite of sleeve bearing.
valleypoboy said:AZImmortal said:good deal. too bad they're not ball-bearing fans, which last longer.
Ball-bearing is louder. I bought 20 of these a while back and they work nice. I replaced 3 ball-bearing fans in an old Antec case of mine and it's very quiet now. Now, the new rifle bearing fans combine the reliability of ball bearing with the quite of sleeve bearing.
exactly, sleeve fans are quieter and thats the only difference you will notice btwn them and BB fans. I doubt regular computer builder can kill a sleeve bearing fan.
I bought 15 of these about three months ago for the same price, and I still have 14 in the box... lol. Wonder what I was thinking =P Very nice deal for those who need these fans though, thanks for posting!
I just read on the Masscool site that sleeve bearing fans normally last 30,000 hours compared to a normal ball bearing fan lasting 50,000 hours. But, by buying 15 we'll have plenty, not to mention the fact that it's quieter.
I bought up 10 of the Speeze awhile back when you could buy 10 for .99 each, and they're excellent (same company).
The question I have for anyone is: Where can a person find discount prices on various sized fans (as opposed to 80 mm all the time). I would like to find some 60 mm, 70 mm, 90 mm, 120 mm, as well as CPU cooling fans. Sure I can find those sizes, but never on sale like this. I'd like to be able to stock up on several of them. Does anyone know of any cheaply priced fans in those categories? Thanks.
cesmit2, it isn't available now but i got a bunch of NMB 92mm fans from directron (methinks) a while back at like .60$ ea. the thing with it was the adapters were wrong so you had to make your own adapters or have the fans go to a custom fan controller thing.
and just for others info, this is how the prices breakdown with shipping: N - $$ N=number of fans, $$ = cost me = teh bored! 1 - 7.08; 2 - 14.16; 3 - 9.84; 4 - 13.12; 5 - 16.4; 6 - 19.68; 7 - 15.26; 8 - 17.44; 9 - 19.62; 10 - 21.8; 11 - 23.98; 12 - 26.16; 13 - 28.34; 14 - 30.52; 15 - 14.85; 16 - 15.84; 17 - 16.83; 18 - 17.82 19 - 18.81; 20 - 19.8
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