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Review on 🧊 ARCTIC F14 Silent - Ultra-Quiet 140mm Case Fan, Extra Quiet Motor, for Computers, Nearly Inaudible, Fan Speed: 800 RPM - Black/White by Will Randles

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Not as quiet as I hoped

They're not very loud or anything, but not as quiet as I thought. I use 2 of these as suction fans on the front of my box, one straight into the case and blows the graphics card, the other blows 2 SATA 5.25 drives (with an empty slot in between) and 1 SS drive on the bottom of the box. I installed a power supply from below, which also feeds from below. I then have a 120mm fan coming out the top and another 120mm fan coming out the back top and I'm using the stock AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU cooler. This configuration, along with changing my BIOS fan settings to be a bit more aggressive, lowered my CPU temperature by 13 degrees Celsius and improved my CPU performance by 15%. My previous setup consisted of 2 120mm fans coming in from the front and one 120mm fan. The fan comes out of the back wall. The purpose of this box is to act as a Plex Media Server, a DVD/BD ripping station which then encodes to 12-bit H.265, as well as my DVR and TV guide etc. and my main computer for all my non-gaming goals. This is my full media computer supported by a Synology NAS and HDHomeRun network tuner connected to an OTA antenna in my attic. ASRock X470 Taichi AM4 ATX MoboAMD Ryzen 7 2700X with Wraith Prism LED cooler DDR4 SDRAM 3200 (PC4 25600)EVGA GeForce GTX295Samsumg 860 EVO series 500GB SATA III SSD (boot drive)2x Seagate IronWolf Pro 2TB Nas HD 128MB Cache 6.0Gb/s HD (RAID 1 file source)Asus Black 12X BD-Rom (BC-12B1ST)Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-03 Black Steel Mid Tower Gaming Case2x Arctic F14 PWM PST 140mm Intake Fan2x 120mm Case Exhaust Fan2x ASUS VX248H 24" Synology Monitors NAS DiskStation DS1817+ (2GB DiskStation) Crucial 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3/DDR3L 1600MT/s (PC3-12800) SODIMM (CT2K8G3S160BM) 5x Seagate IronWolf Pro 12TB NAS HD 7200RPM 256MB SATA 6.0Gb Cache/s (ST12000NE007) 1 of a Antcloud 75 mi Outdoor TV Antenna SiliconDust HD HomeRun Connect Quatro HDHR5-4US Tuner I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 with all the necessary programs to support everything, it works great.

Pros
  • Always liked
Cons
  • I keep calm