140mm Fans

[moon111]

My current SuperFlower PSU has a 140mm fan. Frankly, I'm loving it. It's very quiet and moves allot of air.

140's are hard to find, but do you think they'll become norm soon???

 

[NicePants42]

You can get 140mm Yate Loon fans without too much trouble these days.

I think it'd be great to have more 140mm fans on cases and PSUs. I also wouldn't mind a couple radiators designed with 140mm fans in mind.

 

[Rory Buszka]

I think that 140mm fans may become more prevalent, but only as a gimmick. The trend in computer hardware in general is away from high-wattage processors ( = lots of heat output) like the AMD Athlon and Pentium 4 and toward more power-efficient designs. Other heat-producing parts like the Radeon HD2900XT GPU and other high-end video cards vent their heat outside, typically. There really isn't a need for even larger fans than the now-common 120mm fans, unless you just want to run them really slowly to push air very quietly.

 

[NicePants42]

There really isn't a need for even larger fans...unless you just want to run them really slowly to push air very quietly.

I like how your post mentions silence as an after-thought.