Removing the A4000 power supply fan?

[klx300r]

I removed the fans in both of my A4000 PSU's (liteon and skynet) and replaced them with SWiF2-800's with rubber grommits which made them almost silent with "almost" the same CFM airflow as the original.

http://www.quietpc.com/cl-swif2-800

I was a bit worried that the airflow might be less with them being so much quieter but I've not had problems.

cool link still works for these quit fans:)

[klx300r]

Just a quick note.. Get a quiet fan and have it point out of the chassis! The fan should not blow it's hot air on the cards or anything else.

The fan should draw thru the front and distribute around the cards cooling them and add the PS heat before exit...

very true! I was surprised to see it was pushing hot air into the system when I recently took mine apart to change the caps...was good that I did as few caps already started leaking slightly. Anyhow great time to also change the fan with a more modern quiet fan and more importantly facing in the right direction lol:hammer:

[klx300r]

@ mechy

waiting for a Noctua NF-R8 Redux-1800 to arrive as many of my friends said it was silent as heck with great air movement

[klx300r]

Well, I have a https://www.quietpc.com/nf-a8-flx incoming so I'm looking for the best and/or easiest ways to swap out the old. The current fan is so much noisier than this pc it's not funny. (Which is _nothing_ compared to what my 2000 was like - even after having a "NoiseKiller" heatbased resistor that made it a lot more silent...)

cant go wrong with the Noctua NF fans, top quality and air flow is great in my full A4000