Aerocool Shark 120mm Evil Black Edition Fan Review

Aerocool’s Shark 120mm Evil Black Edition Orange LED Fan costs £8 in the UK. Although if you hunt around some other shops you can probably find it for a tad cheaper depending on what kind of website delivery and loyalty schemes you get involved in. Either way the Aerocool fan is well priced at about £7-8.

Now that I’ve covered the price I would like to cover the remaining criteria: performance, noise, features and looks. Performance as we saw was on the whole very good and even though it was quite weak at the lower speed because it was only spinning at 800-850RPM not 1000RPM due to us not being able to find an adapter that allowed the fan to spin at 1000RPM. Noise was a bit on the weak side but nothing unforgiving and if you had a fan controller these fans would be excellent for switching between low and high speeds to get maximum performance and maximum silence. Even if you don’t have a fan controller the provided adapters do give you that option anyway, although something between 800 and 1500RPM, or PWM, would of been nice and having to switch around adapters is a lot of hassle.

That point leads us nicely onto features where I think this fan is doing good in the sense it has an adapter, anti-vibration mounts, screws and has nice looking bright orange LEDs. Although, at the same time it could and should have had PWM support. Finally, onto looks, and this is where I think these fans stand out. If you consider all the other criteria then these fans are classifiable as above average in terms of how they stand against the rest of the competition. However, if the looks are to your taste then it makes the purchase infinitely more worthwhile. Personally, I really like the look of these fans and I think they are worthy of our Bang for Buck Award. Obviously, if you didn’t like the looks then you might be inclined to disagree with my decision and I totally respect that.

We would like to thank AONE for providing us with these review samples.