All 120 and 140mm fans were individually tested on the Cooler Master TPC 800 CPU cooler heatsink or Thermalright Macho Rev.A (BW) heatsink, respectively, to determine cooling performance. We understand using a CPU heatsink performance can only ever be a proxy for performance/airflow, and that the performance figures will vary between different types of heatsinks, BUT this is the best method we are able to conduct.
Temperatures were taken at a consistent room temperature of 20 degrees
Delta temperatures have been used to account for small fluctuations in room temperature
Prime 95 was run for 15 minutes and the average maximum CPU temperature was recorded as noted by CPUID HW Monitor
The acoustic measurements were taken 2 inches/ 5cm away from the tested fans with the power supply fan and GPU fan isolated/turned off
The ambient noise level as recorded by our sound meter was 37 dBA and delta noise levels have been used in our graphs
There is approximately a 1 degree celsius margin of error in our temperature recording software
There is approximately a 1dBA margin of error with our decibel meter
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The aluminium bladed fan is unique but I’m dubious as to the value and effectiveness of the LED’s. I’d rather have it without them.
Those LEDs are kinda useless. Fans without LED would have been great.
removing the leds would be simple enough but I do like those aluminum series fans