Will A Noctua Noise Reducer On a 8cm LED Fan be safe?

Hi everyone, I have 2 fans in my system.

The first is a green LED Akasa (branded) 80mm fan pulling air into the system (3pin)

The second is a Noctua 92MM fan at the rear of the PC (4pin)

I'm wondering (as per the title) weather it would be safe to use the Noctua noise reducer on the Akasa fan as it is quite noisy at the moment.

Another quick question is would it be a good idea to use the front fan as an exhaust for hot air.


Akasa fan specs:
https://www.cclonline.com/product/6...0CG-4GNS-Crystal-Green-Frame-Fan-8cm/CLR0160/

Noctua fan specs:
http://noctua.at/en/products/fan/nf-a9x14-pwm/specification

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Personally, I would just go for new, higher quality fans instead of putting the internals into another. You won't know if they'll work but chances are, done right, they will.

As for airflow, if you want to bring in air from the back and shoot it out the front, I don't see why not. You would have to make sure your fans are in the right direction (so of course that means flipping both the current exhaust and intake fans) but, in theory it should work fine.

 

Thanks for the quick reply, I wasn't intending to take the Noctua apart, just using the noise reducer cable addon from it.

My worry is that it was designed for the Noctua thus might not work properly.

 

Warm air likes to rise, it is much easier to go with the natural flow than fight against it.

I don't know what this noise reducer is, my Noctua fans came with 3-pin short pieces of wire, that have resistor in them, you put piece of wire between MB and fan connector and it reduced fan rpm. However all of that was 3-pin, 4-pin might operate differently, so I better say nothing about it.

 

That confuses me, it looks like a gimmick. What does it do? Limit the amount of power getting to the fan so it doesn't go as fast?

Anyway, above me is right. PC airflow should go bottom to top. The described method I gave above would go top to bottom effectively not moving enough heat out. You could do this but you'd have to locate your current exhaust fan at the bottom of the case and have your current intake at the front. Seems more complicated than its worth.

 

Thanks for the help everyone, I'll get my old 92mm CPU fan and use that instead.
It's a 4 pin thus controlled by the motherboard.

It still seemed worth looking into though just to be sure.

 

It is just piece of wire with resistor in it, some Noctua fans comes with two of those, different resistor value in each, so you can silence fans if needed.

Those work with any fan that has same amount of pins, I guess, might work with 3-pin too, but that is bit too new tech for me.

My mobo has 4 pin connectors and connecting 3pin fans is fine, I just don't know how universal such possibility is.

 

Interesting, I've never seen or heard of those before.