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A good quality chassis fan will not only make your PC cooler, but will significantly reduce its noise output too. We round up 55 fans to see which deserve to be spinning away in your PC.

Coolink

Manufacturer:Price:
Coolink£8 inc VAT
Reviewer:Review Date:
James GorboldAug 2006
 OVERALL RATING
 
 
SCORE
5/6
 

Apart from a hard disk cooler and a truly ancient GPU HSF, case fans are the only products that Coolink sells in the UK. All of the fans belong to the SWiF series, which, according to Coolink, stands for Silent Whisper Fan.

The SWiF-1201 is a 120mm fan, which is supplied with a backplate-mounted rheostat that allows you to adjust its speed between 700 and 1,200rpm. At 700rpm, Coolink claims the fan will move 23.5cfm at 9dBA, and 38cfm at 17dBA at 1,200rpm. In our tests, the SWiF-1201's airflow was 12cfm at 700rpm and 43cfm at 1,200rpm, while its noise output was 20.1dBA (lower than the ambient noise level) and 27.7dBA respectively.

Although the SWiF-1201 is very cheap for a variable-speed 120mm fan, its limited airflow means that it isn't suitable for cooling a high-performance PC.

Coolink also produces a 92mm fan, the SWiF-922, which can be adjusted to spin between 1,100 and 1,850rpm. Claimed figures are 24.7cfm at 12dBA at 1,100rpm, and 37.7cfm at 22dBA at 1,850rpm, although our tests show that the fan produced 13cfm at 21.5dBA and 43cfm at 32.3dBA at 1,100rpm and 1,850rpm respectively.

The 80mm SWiF-801 is the smallest Coolink fan, which can be adjusted to spin between 800 and 1,500rpm. Coolink claims that the fan produces 13.5cfm at 9dBA at the lower speed, and 22.4cfm at 11dBA at the upper speed. At the lower speed, the SWiF-801 failed the 'black sack' test, but at maximum speed, it registered 14cfm at 20.9dBA. The SWiF-801 is incredibly quiet, thanks to its low-speed motor, but the flipside of this is that it has extremely poor airflow

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