Who Actually Makes the Best PC Fans? 

lol same

Lol, what case and what fans?

same here, when it got to the quieter ones it just was tuned out but my fans.

It's evolutionary behavior. They are trying to keep themselves from getting replaced by blocking out the test results so that it seems all fans are indistinguishable

🤣🤣🤣😅

Arent there different colour options of the same fan model?

people seem to forget you can pay a little more for black, or you could just color it yourself

For a while there wasn't a black option, it's only been around for about a year.

They are definitely ugly but you can get em in black

the competition though is getting GREAT I have a noctua cpu cooler with 2 ugly fans, 2 fans for the gpu, ugly too, and one for side again ugly But expensive If I would have found the Arctic P12/P14 before buying those things? At that price and performance, hell i'd buy the cheaper still very good ones. So cheap you can buy 3 times the number of fans and you'd still be cheaper than the same number with noctua

Thank u just saved 8 minutes of my precious time on this earth u deserve a like for it

no shit, that noctua fans cost 29-30€.

Artic p12 Is almost the same as this noctua costing 1/4

They performed better at higher rpm. Means nothing.

@@wolfmanjacksaid in reality in the video they performed better at noise normalized test, but was almost equals to arctic p12

I personally think its (kind of) ugly

@@asduhaisjdjasd A lot of people do think that it is ugly especially considering that the fan color just does not fit well with the average build color, but when it comes to quality, it IS the premium choice.

It honeslty grew on me to the point where I dont like fans that aren't tan/brown anymore lmao. Idk... the color theme is kinda... prestigious.

@@Shyzah Lol same, I didn't care much of the look of my build until I got into RGBs for a little while but then I ended up just buying 6 chroma black 120mm and 1 140mm noctua fans and I hid the ugly 3 other fans that used to be used for my cpu cooler and put them in the front of my pc case.

I would love to buy from Noctua but that color is so ugly.

Yep. Arctic P12 for budget, then Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM. Nothing else for case or air/aio cooler.

@Retrodude 21 we still have value in mind

I am using a combination of the p12 and p14 and I have to say that even at max speed they are very quiet

Same for the Arctic P14. Now, the low cost means you should probably buy the 5 pack to make sure you get enough fans that have zero issues and they are thicker than normal at 27mm (at least for the P14) so that needs to be taken into account. But otherwise I am super impressed by their performance and noise level.

Yeah got me a pack of 5 p12's for the price of 1 noctua, and they are quiet. Really impressed by the fans. They don't have anti-vibration pads though. But still that bang for buck.

I know right!

This is the viddie that made me subscribe, for all those reasons.

No one cares

just farted during your comment. Must be working with him or know him

Cause no one cares

they are loud as f

@@privatebenfallsprivat8428 I have a different experience with it. I use both Noctua and NB

@@kkkutkip same here. Each of them has their purpose. I also dislike the fact that NB is missing here. I guess it's because their lack of aggressive marketing? Also: i used scythe besides other big brands and imho they are really really good for the price tag and if you want to safe a bit of money they do really great as case fans! if you look up some other reviews they are at least top 3 in a variety of configurations.

I have 16 eloops in my case and they are superb. Quiet and they move lots of air compared to Pure wings, Corsair LL and ML fans which I have also tested.

@@privatebenfallsprivat8428 I run my NB-eLoops at 90% at all time and they're quieter than my Be Quiet Pure Wings 2 at 7V. They're definitely not 'loud as f'

Not just that, the P series are only 0.08 Amps at 2k RPM and you can daisy chain 11 of the PWM PST variant with a single fan header! At £5 per fan, they're freaking amazing! Edit: Also have a 10 year warranty and can be run at 0% PWM.

Yeah....but there's like zero reason to cheap out on fans. "Oof! These things will literally last for a decade and are comparatively cheap to other parts. Let us save a buck!" Same things with PSU's. Why cheap out on something that's not so expensive and probably a one-off investment.

I don't need to spend more money on fans when Arctic fans do everything what I need. I've got 3 P12 fans and 2 F12 fans, they are silent, push air really good and have them daisy-chained to a single PWM header. I put the saved money towards getting rechargeable batteries for my VR controllers.

This video isn't about the "best bang for your buck" fans, though. It's about which is the best PC fan, period. But I do agree with you that the Arctic P-series fans are great for the money.

​@@ibrahimtastekin275 - Cheaping out on a PSU is not the same... A PSU failure can kill your expensive PC parts, whereas a fan failure will not (as temperature protection would kick in and mitigate harm). Not the same.

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Same here man. I use em for intwke and exhaust, Should i have gone for airflow instead?

Agreed!!

@@rowschank I got a 5 pack for the price of 1 Noctua, crazy value.

same thoughts

@@TomSkarabis-oz1ep It does give people the idea they need to spend a lot to get a half decent fan, which is not the case. (Disclaimer: I haven't used any of the tested fans myself so I can't compare their performance vs the Arctic's)

agree. this was my first video of his and the artistic quality was striking. given the solid content as well, obvious subscribe for me.

They're impossible to get in some regions.

@@tkpenalty You can buy them from Arctic directly on Amazon. There are tons of variants. I've noticed anytime stock is low of a particular model, it gets discounted, typically you can then pick up three bionix P120 for like $25 bucks with free shipping. Recently found two red bionix P140's for 10 bucks each too.

maybe because the fan stop function doesn't even work on every single model, as it's intended?

They've been trash for so long that most people don't wanna get disappointed again I guess. But it's nice to see 'em coming back a bit.

i tried to get the 240ver. but became unavailable the last moment. only those ripoff merchants were available who asked double

Worth the price 👌

the very long warranty really is confidence inspiring ^^'...

@@guser436 as long as you don't get them from microcenter

That’s actually the worst type of sound to use as a baseline because our ears by nature have a difficult time perceiving average loudness from short transients. Besides, what matters more in a test like this is how the fans compare to one another and their sound profile. The tonality of fan noise is as important to me as the volume level because ours ears are biologically more sensitive to certain frequency ranges than others; it isn’t linear, so if the tone ventures too far into that 1.5-5KHz range it can start becoming very distracting or irritating even if it isn’t that loud.

Also the dumbest idea since testing like that is virtually impossible.

@@AlexanderVRadev Can you elaborate on how manually setting fans to produce the same noise level is "virtually impossible"?

@@DuyLeNguyen Basically different fans are differently noisy. Coil whine, turbulence thru the fan blades and so on and on. I have 4 identical fans in my case and I know that the bottom front intake is louder than the other 3, coz I accidentally unplugged it while installing an NVMe in my PC and noticed that my PC ran a lot less noisy. I keep the fans at a constant 1750 RPM and don't bother with them at all, so I've noticed that straight away. Then looked and saw it wasn't spinning so I re-connected it and it was back to "normal". Gamers in reality don't care much about noise levels, as we tend to sit on our PCs with headphones on. Would've much rather liked a graph with all fans set to 1500 RPM and then see who did what and why.

speedphlux “gamers in reality don’t care much about noise levels” , stfu m8. Maybe your mother can’t hear your jet engine from the basement, but there are actually gamers that live in other places then mother’s basement and needs to have a quiet computer. Sitting with closed back headphones in not a option for some people who want to game and still keep an ear on the household. An observation I have made is the correlation between age and noise. The older the person the more demanding they are on noise.

@@arvidjohansson3120 nah he is right. I moved into my own place ten years ago....I don't care about "noise lvls" lol ...running mine at full I well NEVER hear them thru my head set . Like..ever. Wtf are u casuals even talking about Jesus. Tell yer wife that u are a man and u have man needs if she doesn't like the sound of yer PC while u game she can go to another room . Beta males are so cringy. No wonder so many single women now ...the men that have a pair are all wifed up and are precious few apparently. The idea my wife or anyone is gonna give me grief over my system noise that even at 100 u cant hear over a cat fart at 6+ feet away in my own house? Either your beta ..or living at mommies like ya accused the other guy of or well ..maybe soy boys just have advanced hearing from getting stuck in the friend zone with women so often lol. Sad

but what about arctic?

A N I M E N I M E

Arctic is just way too good. The Arctic P14s are actually one of if not the best 140mm fans in the market right now, Hardware Scientist has done a comparison video on 10 different 140mm fans and the P14s tops out on almost every category as well as being the cheapest. Video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rv1S9RhABa8.html

Note the 10 year warranty on arctic.

@@KokoroKatsura Go deeper. A N I M E N M I I M N E M I N A

don't be. they don't cost an arm and leg only because noone reviews 'em

I can agree, i have various fans of P12 and P14 (PWM PST with the improved motor), and they are one of the best and the killer for price performance ratio.

is it worth getting i might get it

Nope, you wrong.

Yeah i refuse to have fans that look so disgusting even if my PC doesn't have a side panel window.

@@OutOfNameIdeas2 you make no sense

Dissolve marker pen ink with isopropanol Apply with cotton End up with gray fan

Just buy chromax black noctua fans then

@@ryanwallace983 but it ain't rgb, if noctua release rgb fans I would buy them

Totally agree. For most of usage you don't need high-end premium fan. For casual Arctic is more than enough.

I second this, also maybe test in both push and pull? Some fans are particularly noisy with restrictions on one side vs the other side.

Yeah. I usually love his reviews but seeing as the Arctics are not here. I gotta say trash.

Yup, I cringe seeing people wasting money on noctuas when artic sells the same for sometimes ~7x less.

@@DeBlackKnight that's actually an very interesting point. somebody told me thats the case with some noiseblocker fans which surprised me

@@rophgames from all the reviews and information that I could gather. The 120mm arctic come close, but noctuas are still ahead. But at least for 140mm fans arctic p14 seem to be very close and overall noctuas lead on 140mm fans is a lot smaller compared to all other fans

@@crithylum9846 this is exactly why I disliked this video. the title is not answered at all by testing only a single portion of a use case with these fans. I have very good experience with Scythe, but that's indeed with more free flowing air... I was wondering if the radiator made Scythe and others perform worse in comparison to the Noctua fan, and I guess they did. disappointing video this. shame cause I think this guy tends to make quite good videos normally.

@@crithylum9846 Tech Buyer's Guru 's case fan test was extremely unscientific, you should't base any decisions on that test. Uncontrolled thermal load and one intake fan tests only where the air stream goes, not the airflow capability. For all we know, if the fans are turned on full blast it might just circulate the air in one spot for the most part.

@@deafno This test wasn't a controlled thermal load, either. Both tests are equally flawed.

@@REH86 They test different things and this test is not perfect, but far from flaws of TBG test. You could actually hear the fans as you would in real life here, TBG put the mic directly on the fan

@tompo1975 That's... That test is the "noise normalised" test. The bars show what temp the fans can bring the CPU down to, while staying at 40dB. Since Noctua are so quiet, they can run a lot faster than the other fans at 40dB, and therefore keep the radiator cooler

@tompo1975 lol what

Yeah, it should be clarified that here we only see radiator testing, not case intake / exhaust testing.

I watched a video very recently where the Scythe fans did very well as regular case fans, but the reviewer mentioned that they didn't do so great on radiators. I have a Noctua U9S on my CPU, but a couple of Flex fans in my Ncase M1 because the Noctua A12x25 is about $40-$50 where I live, vs

The Noctuas a12x25 are allround. They are great no matter the use case.

It's harder to be a radiator fan so if they're good at that they'd be good as intake and exhausts

Why does no one want to talk about GentleTyphoons? Was no one building PCs in 2010?

Yep, same. This case however is just a noise issue, not the pump destroying position

TheZebinator is right. That configuration mainly causes some noise from the water but there didn't seem to be any

Actually no, his setup is fine. You just either didnt watch the whole nexus vid, or didnt truly comprehend.

Everyone here is praising the P12s. I had them before moving to Noctua. The P12 are still louder than the Noctua fans tho if anyone is wondering.

@@msnl_ I was using the 120x15mm noctuas and was quite disapointed. Even with the LNA they were rather loud compared too the P12 with the same LNA

Exactly. There is no value prospect left when you take a look at the price.

@@mahnamejeff7586 Well, two Noctuas are smaller than four Corsairs. Two fans also require less fan headers and have less cable clutter than four.

Normal Arctic P-series (non bionix) is even better value. Same fan basically but non-bionix doesn’t have so fancy looks.

Definitely hoped to see the Arctic fans on here. I love them for a quiet build. Would use them strictly if they had a 15mm thick version.

have one, still like the p12 more

@@keestojuusto6072 I've tested both - the acoustics of the value P12's weren't great. Notably a high pitched motor whine and the fan frames vibrated quite a bit compared to the bionix. This was a set of 5 P fans so not a fluke. The bionix are made of an elastic silicone material, my theory is that makes a difference in stability and overall acoustics. Also the bionix go up to 2200 RPM so you get a little extra performance at 100%.

Simon H I’ve got total of 20 P-series fans. 10 120mm and 10 140mm. So far haven’t had problems. To me, sound is very smooth with or without filters on almost any RPM. Maybe over 90% rpm makes noise. I’ve got Noctua NF-A14 fans too and the fans which come with NH-D15. I have to say Noctua fans aren’t any better sound wise than Arctic P-series. Arctic is 1/4 of the price of Noctua. My Noctua Fans seems to vibrate a lit compared to Arctic P-series when holding a fan on hand. Screwed into a case it doesn’t make a big difference but on some rpm Noctuas may resonate with case and make horrible sound.

Are the A14 good and silent, or at least as impressive as the A12x25 seen in this video? I know they should be considering the bigger size, but I'm curious about that considering you've got both types and know how they perform. Really looking forward to a response.

Damn, I want to see your PC :D

And I thought five Silent Wings 3 140s in mine was overkill. Just over $100 on fans was a bit crazy, but then I saw your comment. Could buy an RTX 2070 with the cost of the fans alone, though like me you can swap them into every new build for a decade or more before the bearings start to wear.

14 FORTEEEEEEEN?! Mad respect for even just doing that

I guess you could say you are quite the... Noctua enthusiast

@@megapet777 imgur.com/a/oQr1eZC That's an old pic. I have a different motherboard, CPU and memory now.

R fans, mostly

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 My dream since rgb in pc‘s is a thing!

Noctua would rule, lol, noctua not having rgb fans is a handicap

STONKS

I hope it never happens

Yeah, the fans on my graphics card are the real source of all the noise in my case. I wish gpu waterblocks could be standardized. I would have one on all my systems just to reduce the noise when playing games.

I almost heard what you did there...

just be silent

No need to be fanatical.

Basic 3-pin P12 1800rpm is under 4 EUR in my country (with 25% VAT), PWM PST version is just above 5 EUR... Not the value pack, a single fan, amazing price/performance.

The price difference between chromax and regular noctuas is so small that it's not even worth getting the brown ones though

@@HazmatPyro The NF-A12x25 isn't available in chromax black. Noctua declared in Apr. 2020 those were "coming soon" though. twitter.com/Noctua_at/status/1253627804224303104

when I see those brown fans: damn, this guy knows fans.

@intempify Ikr something about that off brown color.

OK here is performance for you. The 2200 RPM BeQuiet fan will beat the Noctua, simply because it goes faster and moves more air. Not to mention will cool the GPU more making GPU fans running quieter. And the GPU is the loudest component. He tested at no GPU load, because if he stresses the GPU it will run so loud he can't measure the fans. The test methodology is bad - you need full system testing.

I'm also glad to know that the Corsair has a terrible pitch, argh!