zalman 9700.... ultra-quiet or regular?

stopthekilling77 · Post by **stopthekilling77** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:12 am

zalman ultra quiet: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6835118020
regular zalman 9700: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835118019

inside my antec p180 case will the "ultra quiet" really be worth the extra few dollars?

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:09 am

I'd say the P180 would be able to muffle the regular one just fine. Are the fans the same CFM?

Plus I think the copper one would work better at cooling.

Dan

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:11 am

I have the standard one (copper color) with it on the low setting I don't hear it, My PSU fan is louder. now with it cranked all the way up I can start to notice it if I put my head down my case and that is in my little mATX case, your case I don't think you would hear much of anything.

camaroguy1998 · Post by **camaroguy1998** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:13 am

I have the 9700LED and at low rpm its barely audible!
I just noticed something, the 9700NT has the Nvidia logo on the fan!
Does Nvidia own Zalman???

stopthekilling77 · Post by **stopthekilling77** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:32 am

camaroguy1998 wrote:I have the 9700LED and at low rpm its barely audible!
I just noticed something, the 9700NT has the Nvidia logo on the fan!
Does Nvidia own Zalman???

nah, but apparently "At first glance, this box's packaging reminds me of a jet engine, which is a good thing. Why so green though? Apparently NVIDIA blessed it ;)"

quoted from: http://www.3dgameman.com/content/view/6722/103/1/1/

i'm thinking i'm going to save some money and go with the cheaper of the two, i dont think i'm going to notice the fan noise at all with the 9700 LED

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:13 pm

unless you want the green fan light, I would go with the cheaper one (it has a blue fan light)

did anyone else notice in the review link above for the NT version; that at the end when he linked to pricing he linked to the LED version not the NT.

stopthekilling77 · Post by **stopthekilling77** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:34 pm

thats a bit strange, but yeah i'm going with the 9700 LED

hooray for a new computer within another month!!!!