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.
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.