Everybody Chillout!! with the IceGale Xtra 120 (3000 RPM) (Old Testing Method) 

I gotta say, that’s the most extensive and thorough comparison of fans in RU-vid format - it’s great - I hope your channel keeps growing - it will it’s just a matter of time and persistence man- you are doing a great job!

So, I purchased the Iceberg Thermal Icegale Xtra 120, Arctic P12 Max, and Cooler Master Mobius 120 OC High Performance. The Icebergs clearly blow more air & harder & further than both, and the Arctic - despite everyone's claims and tests stating how good performs - is clearly in last in terms of both air amount, air distance, and how hard it felt like the air was hitting my hand. The Arctic Max was actually shockingly weak and disappointing. Out of those 3, the Iceberg is the only one that actually felt like it was at or close to the Phanteks T30. The way the air shot out was massively different. When mounted to my Cooler Master HAF 932's side-panel (pull, intake), the Iceberg felt like the air shot from the top of the blade's face upwards at around a 30-45 degree angle and from the bottom of the blade's face downwards at a 30-45 degree angle while the Phanteks felt more like a laser beam shooting forward straight out of the blade's face. This didn't bother me at all since it's for case cooling and the spread is nice, plus, the side panel uses 4x 120 mm so tons of air going everywhere. I was totally fine with the maximum speed noise of all the fans and was ready to keep the Iceberg's since they were the only 3000-ish RPM, high CFM, high pressure fan in around the same league as the Phanteks T30 while still being only 25 mm......until I mounted them to my side panel. Unfortunately, when mounted to the side panel, the Icebergs make an insanely loud, high pitched squealing scream from around 1200 or 1500 RPM or so until max RPM. All the tested fans introduce a new, constant whine/scream noise when mounted to the side panel that usually starts at around the 1300-1500 RPM range but this newly introduced noise - while being a different sounding tone with each fan - is much, much louder and higher pitched with the Icegale than any of the other fans. It actually sort of reminds me of the sound of like delta industrial fans or something (when at the higher RPMs). Again, the sound did NOT occur when the Icegale - or any of the fans - are just held in my hand. The Icegale was perfectly fine then and bloody amazing. It was only when it was mounted to the panel. The Cooler Master also had a sound issue. The Cooler Master was the only fan where that newly introduced panel-noise never went away. Even at 1000 RPM, 800 RPM, 600 RPM, etc. the noise - while obviously going down in pitch and volume the lower the RPM - was always clearly audible...and, trust me, I'm one of the least picky persons around when it comes to PC fan noise. The Arctics - like the Phanteks - do not have either of the 2 panel-noise issues. They both have the panel noise - which I'm assuming most fans would have - but not either of the 2 particular issues described above. So, the Icegale is being returned because of the panel-noise issue, the Cooler Master is being returned because it's performance doesn't come close to the Icegale but while also being 27 mm instead of 25 mm thick and because of the panel-noise issue, and the Arctic is being returned because it's performance is incredibly poor compared to the Icegale and is even noticeably behind the Cooler Master. The final 3000-ish RPM, 25-ish mm fan I'll try is the Silent Wings Pro 4. If it's performance disappoints me like the Cooler Master and especially the Arctic, then I'll just say "screw it" and get Phanteks T30s but I really wanted 25 mm for the side-panel. I don't see a point in trying the awesome Lian Li P28 fans because, at 28 mm thick and their price, I might as well just go Phanteks T30.

Have these and love them.

So, considering the overall cost-benefit ratio involving noise, energy consumption, and airflow, is the P12Max the best option in almost all cases?

I must be misunderstanding the right-graph at 11:25. The IceGale is supposed to be loud yet the chart shows it at only around 44-45 db while the control 140 mm fan is a whole 4-5 db louder (49 db) for the exact same air-speed (about 1.80 or 1.85). What am I not understanding correctly?

Which do you think would be better between this and the P12 Max with regards to having 4 of them (2x2 config) on a side-panel pull-intake setup for the HAF 932 case while in the, let's say, 1500-to-max RPM range? My current 4 "mid-performance" side fans make a nice difference to my oc'd RAM's cooling but am looking to get some "ultra-high" performance fans to replace them but am only considering this and the P12 Max due to price. Thanks for the vid. I watched the entire thing.

smoke test

I think there is a RPM threshold below about 700-800 RPM where this fan goes standby mode. MIne behaves the same. Also, regarding other concerns: you need to strap this thing to a beefy radiator to get what this thing all about.