Hey Guys, What brand name CPU/CASE fans rise to the top when it comes to longest lasting, I realy dont care about any noise issues just something that lasts the longest....Thanks Keep the old stuff running

I don't think it matters all that much as long as they have two ball bearings, not two sleeve bearings, or a sleeve bearing and a ball bearing. If it doesn't say it has ball bearings (note the s) or two ball bearings, it might have only one, on the spinning blade hub side. I've gotten several 80mm Mutant Mods two ball bearing case fans that push a lot of air and are reasonably quiet that cost me $15 each locally - the one in this computer has been fine for about three years.

You might wanna consider fans that use nano-ceramic bearings. They're quieter & have a much longer life-hour rating than either sleeve or ball bearing fans. I recently bought a GlobalWIN 120mm case fan w/NCBearing & it's almost silent. http://www.svc.com/1202512l.html

I am a fan (no pun intended) of Antec case fans they are quiet and they are ball bearings and not sleeve. Nice Antec 120mm http://www.newegg.com/product/produ... Nice Antec 80mm http://www.newegg.com/product/produ... I use both of these fans and never had any problems with them what so ever. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7900GT SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

Thanks Guys, Antec is what I have used for a couple of years. Looking forward to ordering up the GlobalWIN, 80,000 hrs. is the kind of thing I was looking for.....Thanks jam Keep the old stuff running

btw, antech is my favourite too. Check your site's google Page Rank here