My first impressions when i recieved the Vantec Tornado fan was "wow it's thick!". The dimensions for this hefty little fan are 80x80x38mm. It's approximately the size of 2 regular 80mm fans stacked on top of each other.
One nice little feature, is it has a 3 pin molex that can be plugged into the motherboard to get the RPM's. But the main power uses a 4 pin molex (9.1 watts!).
As for plugging in this sucker, it was a blast!. Literally. This fan pushes out so much air it sounds like a hair dryer.
So i decided to try it out on top of my heatsink, and see what kind of numbers i could get. I ran sandra burn in wizard for 30 minutes and i got these results:
Regular fan: CPU: 65c
Tornado fan: CPU: 59c
6c improvement, not bad. If you can stand the noise.
In the near future I'm planning on trying a rheostat with this fan, to see if i can tame the noise of this beast.
PROS
- Very Powerful 84 CFM
- Comes with a fan guard
- Fan rpm wire
Index
RSS Feed
