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I purchased this item for our ~3-year old HP Pavilion a1730n. The HP store wanted to sell me something for ~$50; ~$11 sounds better to me. It was an easy install (no instructions, but it's pretty obvious how it goes into the case). The fan runs whisper quiet.

One thing about my motherboard: the BIOS doesn't seem to have any fan settings in it, so the three-pin connector actually didn't work for me. That said, the 4-pin power and the speed adjuster work great.

I purchased two of these fans for a small form factor computer. My computer's original PWM fans are loud and do not provide good airflow. When set to the slowest speed setting (factory default), these non-PWM Antec fans provide much better airflow. I can still hear them whooshing in the background, but they are much quieter and lack the mechanical buzzy noise of my original PWM fans. I rate these Antec fans as four stars simply because they are somewhat audible from four to six feet away at the slowest setting. Otherwise, I think these Antec fans are well worth the money, provide a lot of airflow even at the slowest setting, and offer a big improvement over most stock fans (PWM or not). I would purchase them again.

I bought this fan since it was described as a complete replacement for the Dell original equipment. All that was true except I was unable to get the fan sensor pin to work. It connects but I still get a boot error that there is no fan. Annoying but after getting by that the fan works beautifully!! It is very quiet and keeps the cpu cooler than the original fan.

This low cost fan adds more than enough circulation for any gaming computer. I had problems with over heating but now my cpu runs better than ever!!!!

I used this to replace the fan in my Dell Studio XPS, which have notoriously noisy fans. This one is whisper quiet during normal operation. It does get a bit loud when it needs to speed up to full speed, but that is necessary for the heat dissipation in these machines when the CPUs are taxed. Overall, I'm very happy with it!