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Default how much noise will three 8dB(A) fans make?

On 6 Jan, 13:06, Audix wrote:
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:10:59 -0500, Randy Yates
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bornfree writes:


How much noise will three 8dB(A) fans make?


About as much as a gnat farting a hundred yards away.


These are REALLY quiet fans - three of them will, at a
maximum, have a noise level that is 12 dB LOWER than the
noise floor in a VERY quiet studio.


Very true!

Don't forget that the 8dB(A) spec is probably utter marketing
bull****. If you can hear one operating 1 metre away it certainly
isn't 8dB(A).

I have personal experience of so called 8dB(A) computer fans that
(when suspended in free air) could be heard 6 metres away in a very
quiet domestic room. The room on its own measured 23dB(A) with a
calibrated class 1 precision sound level meter. Fans were of Chinese
origin and were 1500 rpm 60x60mm type.


I have faith. I use one of the 8dbA fans on a daily basis. They are
made by noctua, an Austrian company with lots of boffins working for
them.

They are, without a doubt the best fans ever made. Nothing made by any
other company even comes close.

Check the fan out if you want.. http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/pro...ans/nf-s12-800