Re: Noisy PCI expansion chassis - upgrade with quiet fans?
The fans I was using were universal silent Computer fans from Newegg or some place like that. This thread was 12 years ago so I don’t know what the best fans are today, but you should be able to figure out what you need by measuring the physical size of the fan and going from there.
The larger the diameter of the fan, the quieter it will be, so you may want to modify the chassis to accommodate larger fans if it uses smaller fans. On one of my old chassis I replaced the 3 80mm fans with a single 250mm fan, I cut a hole in the top cover and mounted it there so it would vent the heat from the pci cards straight out.
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