At present I have a thermaltake 9 cpu fan. This is not silent to say the least, I am looking for a very quite but below £30 cpu fan.
I am at present using an XP1800 cpu but am soon going to upgrade to 2400 or 2600. The fan needs to be able to handle this. I have seen an arctic silent cool fan on a aution site but do not know much about this.
Any suggestions.

Cheers

uncle

moving to consumer's opinion forum

Try www.quietpc.com

AMD / PIII Flower Cooler CNPS6000-CU - £29.00

I am using the Flower Cooler from quietpc. This comes with a large but SILENT fan and fan speed controller and the cpu heatsink. See here:
http://www.quietpc.com/uk/cpucool2.php

Easy to instal. This, coupled with the PSU they sell, and the machine is almost SILENT. Well, you have to concentrate to hear any noise from the pc and it is sat on a bench 2 feet away from my right ear. There are times when I have to look across to see if Ive remembered to switch it on !! The only noise I get is when the hard drive starts up. Well worth the investment.

buy a reobus, that will lower your fan to upto 5V

hence the fan will spin slower and make less noise

Originally posted by Dave2986
hence the fan will spin slower and make less noise

and won't cool as well

Originally posted by smokafatty
and won't cool as well

You get 20% of the noise and 80% of the airflow

How much air flow can you get from it and at what noise level? Just curious.

like i said with a good fan (e.g panflo) you should get somthing like 80% of the air flow (about 17-30cfm) and 20% of the noise (about 10-3db)

im running 2 of them in my PSU in series (6v each), and its silent, while still keeping it cool (well as cool as it was with the stock fans)

I am using a Speeze HSF which has an 80mm fan on my XP 2600+ 333. Due to the fan size, it gives me about 39cfm at a very quiet 29dBA noise level. It cost me only $14 USD shipped.