Phanteks 120mm, PWM, High Static Pressure Radiator Retail Cooling Fan

Only had them a few days, but they are great so far. Replaced a pair of CoolerMaster MasterFan static pressure pro 140's that were PWM and had switches for speeds and all kinds of stuff that you would think was great, but they had this weird vibration to them. They came with the AIO cooler I bought which has a great pump and radiator. Cools very well, but it was never as quiet as it should have been. I installed these and the curve is a bit odd where it seems like anything between 0-50% kind of sits around 500RPM, but after some tweaking they ramp up when they need to and remain very quiet and vibration free. The weird thing is that the old fans would shutdown after getting below 20% and couldn't go lower than about 600RPM. These run at 500RPM with no problem and only raised my temps by about 1 degree. When they ramp up they are much quieter at higher RPM's than the old fans and cool just fine.

I have a Corsair H110i GT closed loop water cooling system on an overclocked 5960x. The overclock is to 4.1 GHz, nothing major, but I wanted better cpu rendering.I tried the stock fans and getting about 31c at idle and 45c on full throttle during cinebench render testing with 25c ambient. They cooled the system just fine, but it sounded like an Evel Knievel wind up motorcycle. If you don't know what this is it means, they were loud. Not the loudest I have heard but it was annoying for a watercooled system.Next I tried the Nanoxia Deepsilence PWMs......not a peep even on full load. Temps were 36c idle and 61c full......A bit more temp than I wanted but not bad.Lastly the Phanteks. Idle 33c and load 47c. Almost as good as stock. Same sound as case fans on ambient....(case fans are Phanteks in a Phantek Primo case) and just a slight breeze on load. Could not hear the fan just the sound of the air.....settled on those as I have room to O'clock more if I want.They have nice big blades for good static pressure. This is good up against a radiator. Comes with padding to prevent vibration. Stock fans had none. Plus they matched the color scheme of my case.Nothing but good things to say about the Phantek fans....no dud among the case fans I bought or these add ons.

I didn't need a static pressure fan, but I did want a white-bladed fan to test brightness with the Phanteks Halos vs a black-bladed fan and this was actually one of the cheaper options, so it made sense to go this route. I know purists are going to scream about me using this as an exhaust fan, but you should probably calm your soul if that's what you take from this review. I know it's optimized for raditators, but it works just as well and given that an airflow fan was $5 more, this made sense.The fan is very quiet and since it's PWM, it makes managing the speed simple through either UEFI or software controll, such as AI Suite like I use. I keep the speed relatively low at normal operation as it's overkill to ramp it up (plus I am aiming for positive air pressure, so my intakes are pushing more air in than the exhaust fans are pushing out).It's built very well and while my PC is very quiet at idle overall, this fan doesn't seem to make much noise even at load. Then again, the stock fans on my NZXT X62 Kraken are absurdly loud, so it's hard to really gauge how loud this fan truly is.Overall, it served it's purpose in my Halos tests and now is the rear exhaust fan. I'd recommend it, although I still would probably go Noctua if I were actually putting new fans on my AIO.

Price is great and highly functional. Not flashy but helps keep my AMD 3900X idle at 34 degrees and max load at 68 degrees, which are good temps for this cpu. Paired 2 of these fans (push/pull) with a Noctua NH-U12S air cooler. Seems quiet enough as I keep my pc in a cool basement, so with PWM set I really can't hear much until CPU gets over 45-50 degrees. But performance will vary based on ambient temp and cooling/fans setup. Wanted to go all air cooled (less maintenance) on this build and make some sacrifices on noise level. I have a case with open front air mesh, 2 140 intake fans up front, 2 120 fans up top (top/rear exhaust and top/front intake) and 1 120 exhaust fan in rear.Actually like the white blades, goes well with my RGB rear case fan, RGB RAM and RGB bottom case strip.