Just a quick note for those that are curious- there is an 8-pin connector that is included with these fans and the fans are able to be directly connected to each other when they are immediately adjacent to one another. In that scenario the cable management is cleaner (just the lead to the first fan would be visible) but it does limit the placement flexibility of the fans.
@@norkris8729 Yeah 7 pins are used. Just wish the cables were longer to make joining front & rear fans easier. & that the kit came with 2x Motherboard-Fan cables so that seperate clusters of fans can be directly connected to seperate Motherboard ARGB headers.
@@norkris8729 Oh despite my gripes, I think the positives outweigh the negatives. Flexible airflow range & quiet at typical speeds. Ring LEDs are vivid (& nicely subtle at lower brightness) - much prefer these over total fan LEDs.
Thanks for the review, just to address your concerns : - we are preparing screws for radiator mount so customers who wish to do so will be able to purchase them as add-on - for the connector on the same side, this is as your comment pointed out so that you can daisy chain them without cable but using the small connector if they are adjacent. I take note of your remarks though and will take that into consideration for next revision.
Hey Vincent, many of us here absolutely enjoy all the great products from Arctic- thanks for all the work your team does. It's great that you are going to be doing the longer screws and thanks for receiving the feedback.
according to the website, you can connect adjacent fans directly to each other with an included adapter (basically just 7 header pins). Did the individual fans not come with this? It's basically a simplified version of Lian Li's new fans. This is also why the connect and power ports are orientated the way they are, so that they line up with the ports of adjacent fans.
They do come with them. If you're referring to the observation on the location of the ports, my preference would be for the ports on the same side of the fan for cable management/concealment, otherwise one of those thick cables will be visible in many situations, it's not the end of the world, just a bit odd is all.
There is a 8-pin connector (just the pins) that allows the fan to be hooked up to other fans. It does simplify things somewhat from a cable management perspective but at the same time it does limit the fan placement flexibility especially as a case fan. They basically have to be right next to each other with that connector, but it does eliminate some cabling concerns.
Bro, I LOVE Arctic’s products!!! I hope they drop some more 140 mm fans. I’m about to rip my 3080 apart and I wanted to slap an Arctic Freezer ii 280 on it, but it doesn’t quite fit on the top side of my case (P400A, has compatibility issues here). I am curious if you think an Arctic Freezer ii 120mm AIO would still be a decent mod on the 3080, considering your video some time ago.
If you can get it to fit, I'm sure it can work but your fan speeds will have to be high to keep it in check, and even then you might just be on par with the stock cooler. Most hybrid cards are 240mm rads and that's the minimum I would go for the card alone in a custom loop as well. The 300W typically matches what a 240 can handle.
@@MachinesMore This was EXACTLY the answer I was looking for. Yeah, I can easily fit it on top of my case but I will be looking at modding the top of my pc, which I was interested in doing. My problem is that I’m not exactly an artist when creating close out panels to make it snazzy. The easiest thing to do would be to either buy a new case or have somebody create a nifty 3D printed bracket to offset the rad by an inch or so. I don’t know anybody who can do this off hand though, but I’m willing to pay to have it done. Bah!
would be nice to compare these to the Inwin rgb fans (saturn 120mm) just to compare things like noise and airflow performance. i really like the setup for the inwin fans which i used on my last mini itx build that i just did last month.
Heck, I would love to see how my cheapo dark flash fans hold up to these, 🤣. I am currently using a Jank setup at the moment but it looks super sexy; 3 argb Dark Flash 120s on the front and an Arctic Freezer ii 280 on the other side. Would like to tie everything together with these bad boys in the front though.
No, although to clarify these were not mounted at the top of the case, just on the heatsink of the cooler. I would not recommend a 30mm fan for the top of the NR200 unless you are using a cooler with ample top clearance. Most 120mm towers will not allow that. A 92mm tower should be OK.
Just curious, can these fans be mounted in the top of the NR200P, and if they interfere with anything else? (PSU,mobo) A bit concerned they won't fit with the thickness and weird fan mounting bracket, thanks in advance!
Not going to work easily and I wouldn't really recommend these as case fans in SFF builds, the 30mm thickness is a clearance problem, and specific to the NR200 the toolless pegs aren't going to work either, it's just too much trouble to mount when you can get other competing products as a case fan. Now as a heatsink fan, different story, static pressure performance is what you're paying for.
@@MachinesMore Thanks for the reply! Yeah, it's a shame it's a bit thicker than the usual ones. I been trying to find fans similar to the Arctic P12 in terms of silence with RGB/ARGB. I did consider using some RGB Fan frames but I think the thickness will be an issue again.
can i check whether can they fit the bottom of the NR200 to a deshrouded ventus 3080 exactly? p12 and deshrouded ventus 3080 had a gap between heatsink and fans. thanks!
Nice video! I've seen you show a lot the ID Cooling SE-224-XT and that you recommend it for a 5600X in another video but I wonder, how does it fare against big coolers such as a DRP4, Assassin III and stuff like that? I'm still unsure if I should just make the jump or not lol. Also, sadly some of the stuff you recommend costs more than $29.99 USD, which limits my choices a lot (if I were to buy from Amazon). Thanks for your content.
It's not a "big" air cooler but for single chiplet Ryzen performs well above its pay grade. Of course the bigger coolers will be better but at the same time, you don't need to spend that much to get all the performance you need for Ryzen 5.
@@MachinesMore all what matters to me is to be able to enable DOCP, do the auto OC or some small OC without having my CPU throttle so much. The stock cooler of the 5600X is baaad and it even blocks some of the ram slots :( Ty for your help!
those led hotspots are a deal breaker for me not to mention thick fans. Looks like they're trying to emulate lian-li but later changed their design due to patent issues and rushed the redesign to make it to CES. Is that still an engineering sample or already retail? Edit: checked their site and its already in retail, another deal breaker is that the rgb ring is only one side. so if u use it as bottom intake fans and those lights will be of no use.
TBH it's really odd that nearly no one has made a "fatter" fan than the standard 25mm when making them deeper is a fast way of getting them to move a lot more air. Loads of cases could easily have thicc'er case fans and go quiter or cooler.
About the same, but if that’s what you’re after I’d just go for the P12, the cost difference is immense. You’re at 3-4 P12s for the cost of one of these fans.
@@MachinesMore no i asked because if these can be a rgb version of p12. Then the price will make sense to those who need rgb otherwise i was going for p12 anyways..Thank you. waiting for your nr200 and o11 mini builds 😎
@@pietrmuffei8874 I think they will arrive quite soon. 10-15 days ago they released the p14 white with transparent blades (not rgb). So it's just matter of time.
Thank you for great content. Especially for fans you are testing that are not the easiest products to test, although the sound and efficiency they produce are important factors when choosing them for your own computer.
Can you cover the Arctic P12 A-RGB fans that launched last month? I have not seen many reviews at all since launch. How do they compare to the original P12s?
Hello, thank you very much for the information you provide, but my question is whether a Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB will fit with the two fans at the top, that would be my question, more than anything, to know if both fans will fit since I only see one up
These can daisy chain with an included 8-pin adapter plug, just like the unifans. The fans do have to be immediately next to one another though. It doesn’t work on a heatsink.
"You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the RGB, not join them. bring balance to the PC build, not leave it in brightness." hahah thats cool tho, i think ill stick to their normal fans tho since its cheaper and whatnot
Looks like the airflow for these fans is significantly less than for the non-argb versions (48 vs. 69 cfm), at least on paper. Is it not as significant in practice?
@@MachinesMore wow thanks for the reply! i have my EK-AIO as well as vardar rgb fans plugged straight into my gigabyte b550i mobo as well, but i cant seem to find any rainbow spin option in my RGB fusion app. what am i doing wrong?
@@norkris8729 because they don't allow to fit between top exhaust fans if using a tower cooler or thicken a front mounted radiator and gpu length becomes an issue? different cases and components have different measurments.
@@norkris8729 well 27mm or 30mm fans are 2-5mm above "standard" case fans. In case of GPU's being over 32cm long there will be no space in short cases like the new Meshify 2 Compact with a thicker radiator+25mm fan (like the Arctic Liquid Freezer II AiO's, as their radiator thickness is above the "standard" 27-30mm, the Arctic hits 38mm). Arctic did release 15mm slim fans now. Hope we see some RGB slim fans in the near future.
Great content. But I should point out from experience: BioniX fans from Arctic are not worth buying. They have an abrasive sound signature and don't necessarily make up for it with super good airflow. I'd recommend Arctic's P range of fans instead.
From what I've seen the Bionix P120 is essentially a dressed up P12 - they're in the same P family. Sounds wise there's a lot of a variance but all of them, P120, P12, etc all have some odd sound signature as you pointed out.
