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Since when did we start using volts to measure power?

More to the point, where am I going to get 7V without adding a fan controller?

Claims it has 3 pin (motherbard) connector, claiming it'll run at 7V means you can expect the claimed lower RPM while some fans don't scale well, and you can achieve 7V by swapping a couple pins in an inexpensive 4 pin molex to 3 pin fan adapter cable.

Such adapter cables can be found many place, around $2 delivered at http://www.svc.com. See the following example though they have more models to choose from.

http://www.svc.com/3pinto4pinad1.html

Well if you aren't using a fan controller this might not be a good fan for most folks at 38dBa, while yes 80.5 CFM!

Not sure what Ben means by can be "set"... there's no set-able or adjustment on this? They have those "speeds" as individual models, but this is basically a normal case fan wound for 2000rpm. I think the 7v is just what the lowest recommend input and probably won't translate into an actual 1000Rpm, by rights that would be more like 6v.
http://www.thermalright.com/neapage/product_page/fan/product_tr_fdb_fan.html

At Egg it's $13 shipped, so not a huge savings.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835109027

Most often this simple adapter would cut your voltage, but I think I'd just put this cost into picking a fan that better suites my CFM/dBa requirements.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811996016

One little tidbit of info they neglected to add. It's a 120mm fan in case you can't tell by looking(I couldn't).

Sony FDB bearing, pretty quiet but won't have good life mounted horizontally.


You can also bring the RPM down to a low level by soldering a 1W ~68 Ohm power resistor in series on the positive lead, then run it straight from a non-controlled 12V motherboard fan header or a straight/standard adapter if needed.

However somewhat counter-intuitively the higher the default RPM of the fan (@12V), the lower the ohmage of the resistor you need. Fans that start near silent can use a 120 Ohm, but those quite fast need as low as 47 Ohm or the super-tornado types even lower.

I ended up doing something similar with the 700W OCZ PSU I bought recently, for whatever reason it appeared to be the older revision that had the fan stuck in a far higher RPM range than it needed. That voids the warranty but in the combo special + rebate deal I got in on it was dirt cheap, cheap enough the value of the time and postage to send it back almost equalled what I paid.