Test System
- ASUS P8Z77-V
- Intel Core i5 3570K at 4.5GHz (1.3v) with Gelid GC Extreme Thermal Paste (the best thermal paste we have ever tested)
- 16GB Kingston HyperX 1866MHz DDR3
- AMD Radeon HD 5870
- 128GB Kingston SSDnow V100 (Boot Drive) and Samsung F3 1TB (storage)
- Antec High Current Gamer 620W
- Cooler Master Test Bench v1.0
Testing Methodology
- 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
Software Used
A 1000rpm fan spinning at 850rpm?
Typical story with the products of 2nd grade company. No PWM support. Nothing stands out among the crowd. except for the funky look. Obviously, we don’t want a fan only for its design.
Nope. Spinning at 850RPM due to the adaptor we used, this adapter was not provided by Aerocool it was used by us to try and get it to spin at 1000RPM so we had comparable results to other fans. Nothing to do with the fan. No PWM support is indeed a downside, but clearly the results show that it does have good airflow. My point is that for a fan that was spinning at 850RPM it did well to match or better most fans that were spinning at 1000RPM. It is a very good fan for the price
Oh. Sorry for the misconception.
Another question: How is ti compared to Corsair AF series fans?? I’m asking because AF series fans are considered to be one of the best in the lot.
That’s fine I should of explained it better :P well I have not got the AF120s in for testing but I assume performance on the AF120s would be marginally better and a lot quieter than these. However, these are meant to be good fans if you are on a limited budget the Corsair AF 120s are more premium and thus more expensive fans costing £12.50 compared to the £7 that these cost
Wouldn’t the Corsair SP120 be a more appropriate comparison for heatsink application? These are packaged two ways, Quiet and Performance units, though both include a voltage reducing adapter. And they are PWM fans.
Oops, sorry, the SP120 fans are not PWM fans. The similar ones Corsair includes with the H80i water-cooling unit are PWM though. Sorry for the error.
We compare what we get sent. We have not been sent any Corsair SP120s so we cannot compare. Sorry. We will try and get some though
Evil Black Orange LED Edition eh? Quite a mouthful.
Wouldnt it be an idea to show some images when testing Led-fans?
Next to impossible to get a decent picture with low lighting and LED fans but yes In future I will try and do this despite how bad it may look :P thanks for the feedback
Youre welcome. Guess that all depends on the quality of the camera used for that kind of a shot. But thanks for giving it a go :-)
Would have been nice to see a video.