the raised part around the hole on P12/14 PWM PST is rubber. It performs the same function as the other rubber parts, it's just smaller. It's not pure plastic. Touch it with your nail. edit: Also, if you are buying these fans, you are buying them because they are pressure fans, and silent up to ~1200 rpm. If you are using them at over 1200rpm, well, you are doing it wrong edit1: Value pack of 5 is great (I have many) but they are not fluid bearing, but they are as silent as fluids, except that they make that whine noise at ~1000rpm threshold (which goes away at ~1060rpm so it's easy to work around).
I just was thinking about buying Arctic esports duo and replacing the fans with ARGB ones, but was worried about reducing performance. Exactly the vid I needed.
Something to bear in mind is that the peripheral brace on the impeller of the RGB versions almost eliminates the 'moan' that the other Arctic P fans make at certain RPM, which is due to the very long, rather flexible blades resonating. Although it's at two or three very narrow speed ranges, if you have the fans on a curve they will inevitably pass through them for a couple of seconds as the fans speed up/slow down. You can mitigate (but not eliminate it) by using a curve of a series of steps. However, I found I still couldn't stand it when loads were changing frequently, particularly as I prefer to use slow step-down rates. I ended up using an P14 RGB (with the RGB left disconnected) for a particular application in my case (I have 3 other non-RGB P14 CO's along with a couple of other makes). You might ask why I didn't simply buy, say, a Noctua for another few £€ - I wanted the focused flow that it generates which is unique to this impeller configuration.
@@Morpheus-pt3wq To an extent, but the 'spiral' impellers used on Arctic P-series are known to produce the most focused or least diffuse flow of any design, i.e. they'll throw the air further. Not always what's needed of course. You can use a grille or vanes to re-direct the vortex from any axial fan and improve 'throw', which I've tried as a ghetto mod with reasonable success (in industry they're called vane axial fans surprisingly enough).
Moin, ich kenne dich von deinem Asus VG249Q Review, welchen ich mir dann auch letztendlich zugelegt habe, da dein Review sehr gelungen und informativ war. Aufgrund deiner richtig guten Qualität bei dem Video habe ich mich etwas auf deinem Channel umgesehen und hab gemerkt dass du auch andere interessante Videos machst, wie zum Beispiel auch dieses hier, welches genau im perfekten Moment kam. Seit einpaar Tagen schaue ich mich nach Case Fans um, da bei mir aktuell keine verbaut sind. Ich wollte mir ursprünglich die P12er zulegen da das Preis-Leistungsverhältnis bei Arctic generell auch einfach unschlagbar ist. Da bei meinem Case die Front Fans sehr eingeschränkt sind da sich diese direkt hinter den Plätzen für die Festplatten befinden und man anscheinend dafür, dass auch genug Luft an die Komponenten kommt, einen Fan mit gutem Static Pressure und Airflow braucht, war auf dem Blatt der Bionix besser. In deinem Video hier hast du ja die Fans am CPU Kühler getestet, wäre es eventuell möglich genau dieselben Fans an einem Case zu testen? Vielleicht könnte man auch das Thema Static Pressure, Airflow oder die besten Fankonfigurationen (wie viele nötig sind bis es keinen Sinn mehr macht mehr zuverbauen) behandeln. Liebe Grüße
Hi Elias! Danke für dein Feedback und den ganzen Input. Die P12 kann ich definitiv auch als Case Fan empfehlen, allerdings ist es schwer da richtig genaue Messwerte zu bekommen. Aber gerade wenn dein Case sehr eng ist, gibt einem der Test an der CPU Heatsink eine gute Idee über die Performance im Case.
I got that CPU cooler in duo and I bought a new case Thermaltake Commander C32 (to get into the airflow game and I am also upgrading from GTX 1060 to RTX 3070, so I need the room). The c32 case has two 200mm front case fans that are ARGB (but 1 non rgb in the back of the case)... So i decided to get the P12 pwm argb to have some rgb action inside the case, but because the tower cooler would obscure any case exhaust fan in the back I decided to replace the front intake on the Arctic 34 freezer so the RGB would be visible in all of its glory... After seing other reviews I was really scared I might ruin the CPU cooling since the P12 is advertised as a "case fan" and other reviews didn't have the Artic freezer to play with it... So I fucking love your vid and will replace the front bionix with the P12 argb, gonna subscribe aswell✌️
Maybe it's due to the type of fan bearing the fan has? Like, p12 and p14 fans used sleeve which is cheaper and could make them go faster for cheap whereas the bionix and rgb ones uses fluid type bearings.
So on point. I am impressed, no more infos needed :D Would you choose a P14 (140mm) over a P12 (120mm)? In theory the P14 sould move more air and produce less noise.
Thanks! I haven't really scientifically tested the P14, but I have a build with two P14s in the front and would say they're performing a bit better in the low RPM range. But keep in mind that's my purely subjective impression.
I own a bionix P140 fan from arctic, and noise wise, it's just the same as the P140 by ears. But what's different about the bionix is the vibration from the fan itself. The fan hardly make any vibration at all, and doesn't "rattle" the whole case with it, even at high RPM. Granted, I am using the bionix P140 as a radiator fan, so it is attached to the case directly. Using the normal P14 for CPU tower cooler might not generate that much vibration though, since most of it gets absorbed by the your motherboard's PCB. But again, I touch my PC a lot for no reason at all, so the minimal vibration part is unexpectedly appreciated.
The BioniX aside, I can attest to how RGB may actually be horrible for thermals haha. Added some light strips to my build purely for aesthetics (Phanteks Digital Neon) and the burning rubber smell that came off it for the first few weeks just about cemented that RGB should only come AFTER a good thermal solution. Thanks for yet another excellent video!
Hey nice video man. And you look handsome no homo... Just saying but optimum tech acheived better results ,do you think its bad batch or manufacturing tolerences ? Looking to buy P12 set.
Thanks! We used totally different test setups and test methodologies, so the results aren't directly comparable. I tested on an air cooler, he used an liquid cooler, different CPU, different cases, different stress tests and so on...
i do not recommend buying arctic fans... while their cpu heatsinks are wonderful, the same can not be said for the fans. they have 1, sometimes 2, resonance peaks that the fan motor produces due to rotational imbalance and other possible factors. this creates a very audible humming noise at particular rpm, thus setting it for ramp up and ramp down in correlation to e.g. gpu/cpu temp will result in intermediate humming noises independent of actual fan/wind noise.
I personally use the P variants as case fans as well. My thinking is that almost every case fan will have to deal with some kind of static pressure, especially with closed case fronts and dust filters.
