yup it aint silent. maybe if i only have 1 then it might be silent but now i have 3 in 1 casing so nope, not silent enough ahaha.
my original gigabyte fans were more silent since it runs at max 900 rpm which makes the cfm sux like hell...

led isnt as bright but that's nice for me. no need too bright hehe

Haha, true enough. I love this fans LED too. Kinda cool. I've all the 4 fans running and surely it's not silent as you said. I also tested with only 1 fan and surely my previous Silverstone LED fan is quieter. But the Silverstone fan runs at 1200rpm and this CM long life fan runs at 2000rpm. So as you've mentioned before, it ain't dead silent but for the amount of air it pushes, the fan does a pretty good job I'd say.

This post has been edited by skymyxe: Jun 24 2008, 11:14 AM

so its true lor 90cfm...still wait my fan...wanna see it perfrmnce...

Not 90CFM but it ain't that bad either. It does pushes adequate air but not 90CFM.

I was wondering if I could give it some mod, like, say change the LED?

You could try it. But I won't. I like the LED that way.

if compare wif fm123 which one better...

what is fm123? a specific fan model?

fm123 is a model, silverstone fm123 . . . but definite fm123 is better, freakin high rpm but noise also a killer . . . its rm 69 for 1, cm 90cfm is only rm 30-35 one.

ya rite its silverstone product...i use one bt not so noisy leh..so better use fm123..huhuhu...

I've Silverstone FM123 and used FM92 before as well. FM123 trumps the CM fan hand down. No doubt or argument bout it.

First, the FM123 has higher rated speed which can be adjusted as you wish with the adjustable contoller.
Second, the FM123 will boost higher CFM along with higher speed been adjusted.

In conclusion and from my personal experience. The CM fan does pushes air and you can actually feel the air flowing if you're using it as an exhaust fan. But if wanna compared to Dual-ball bearing, high quality build, adjustable speed FM123, the FM123 is one of the best fan with high CFM's that no doubt push a hell lot of air.

This post has been edited by skymyxe: Jun 25 2008, 11:37 AM

so, by putting CM 90CFM fan with FM123 side by side, which one will u pickup?

wahaha, i sibuk answer . . . fm123, cfm, adjustale rpm . . . (no bling, )

tis thread like discuss for fm123 oli..hehe..bt i prefer fm123 aso..huhu..

lol, u guy got tools to measure the db and cfm or not.

jus use hand to measure the cfm lor..hehe...

FM123 wins hands down.

But the price

the prce i thng reasonable..hee..high quality mean expensive price..

CM fan is cheaper cause its sleeve bearing, which have shorter life span compare to ball bearings fan... u will notice some other bearing type as well, magnetic-fluid etc..

This CM fan if compare to the xigmateks cooler stock fan, which one is better??? Planning to replace the stock cooler... just coz the stock cooler don hav bling2... hehe