red 40mm fans

[DeathCrush]

Greetings all! alright, i've looked everywhere and i CAN'T for the life of me find any red LED 40mm fans. most places only seem to have solid black and the occasional blue LED fan. if anyone knows where i can pick a few red ones up, it would be greatly appreciated. that way i'll finally be able to finish my project and showcase it to all of you thanks a ton guys!

[Zeus]

try xoxide.com, crazypc.com, frozencpu.com and I think coolerguys.com

I think even newegg.com carries them

[DeathCrush]

unfortunately they all only carry the solid black fans. i'm still on a quest for red 40mm fans

[ack ack]

AC Ryan has red led and red uv fans on their website. try performance-pcs.com too.

[DeathCrush]

unfortunately again they're just 80mm fans and higher. hehe just a simple red 40mm fan is so hard to find, bah!

[weirdguy]

you could buy the blue one and mod it?

[Zeus]

I truly apologize. I totally overlooked the fact that you were looking for 40MM fans and only noted that you were looking for red LED fans. If I may ask, what exactly is it that you need these fans for? Maybe we can help you come up with an alternative

[DeathCrush]

hey that's no problem. everyone overlooks things.

what am i doing? well, a while back there was a writeup of a guy who mounted his external HDD inside a metal game box. i did the same thing only in a Quake III metal box, and since Quake has a "red" theme to it (basically the logo) i wanted to put two red LED fans on either end of the I/O ports (go to http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...ead.php?t=1083 to see the pictures if you're at all interested) to help cool the drive, as well as two 40mm Quake III logo fan grills (which i amazingly found at Directron).

if i can't find red 40mm fans, it won't matter too much, i'll just use black and maybe stick a few red LEDs inside the case for light instead. either or, thanks for your help

[Zeus]

I don't know where you could find them. Sorry, you could always just paint the fans. There are other threads here on how to paint a fan

[slaveofconvention]

I'd go with Weirds suggestion - changing the LEDs in a fan is no huge mod job - little solder and careful drilling is all. Most illuminated fans are clear plastic with all the colour coming from the LEDs - the obvious exception being those with coloured plastic and UV leds.