Scythe Mini Kaze 50mm Fans Review

Cooling/VGA & Other Cooling by stefan @ 2010-05-26

The Mini Kaze 50 mm from Scythe is a perfect choice for adding a bit of airflow in those hard to reach places, without impact the noise level. They can be used as extra chipset fans, replacement for external HDD case fans, or a replacement fans for small ITX cases.

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Performance Tests and Conclusive Thoughts

Performance Tests

The test bench was composed from a Jetway NC94-510LF IPC motherboard, 320GB 2.5’’ Western Digital HDD, a Gainward GT 240 video card mounted in the PCI-Express Slot, all inserted in a Thermaltake LUXA2 LM100 Mini HTPC case. The motherboard has a large heatsink which covers both CPU and chipset; the Jetway fan that came with it was only over the heatsink and I have installed an extra Evercool Ever Green 40mm fan on the CPU heatsink:

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The LM100 Mini HTPC case does also have 2x 50mm fans in the back, which act as exhaust:

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The first test I have ran using the stock cooling and then I have replaced both coolers with 2x 50mm fans from Scythe:

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The temperature in the room was 19,6 degrees Celsius at all times.

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Conclusive Thoughts

I was very impressed by the temperature difference between the cooling I had before on the motherboard and the one it is installed now, with the 2x 50mm Mini Kaze fans from Scythe, considering that the exhaust fans were the same in both cases.

The Mini Kaze fans have a very classic design, with no LEDs or other *bling*.

I recommend these fans to anyone who wants to have better cooling on their chipsets, video cards with smaller heatsinks or even to replace their old external HDD case fan. Only one thing I did not like about these coolers: they do not have the third wire that could help monitoring the fan speed.

At ~€5 (excl. VAT) these fan’s are quite affordable and worth for consideration if you want to upgrade your low noise cooling.

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I would like to thank again to Scythe for allowing to test their products.
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Comment from Oberon @ 2010/05/26
Any word on the noise generated by these fans? I've been looking for a small, quiet fan to drop on top of my NB heatsink to try and bring its temp down (my CPU is water cooled, so it doesn't get much airflow and idles around 55C).
Comment from jmke @ 2010/05/26
If they tested these fans in the same test room as their 120mm fans, it seems their 26dBA readings places it between a 1200rpm and 1600rpm 120MM fan
http://www.scythe-eu.com/en/products...-case-fan.html

 

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