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Direct from Manufacturer. Cryptocurrency Payment Accepted. Lowest Price In 30 Days. Less than 1 Year. More than 5 years. Free Shipping. So what's the catch? They're loud. Like, really loud. There's no way you'd want to run them at that speed, though, at least not for typical gaming use. Still, you get a full RGB lighting setup and some pretty strong fans for a fraction of the cost of Corsair's kit.
In a world where the number of RGB LEDs on a fan is often the main selling point, the frill-free styling of the Thermaltake Toughfan 12 Turbo makes for a refreshing change. These really aren't your normal run-of-the-mill case fans.
In fact, these aren't standard case fans at all, they're actually high static pressure fans—ideal for use with radiators and pushing air through grills and confined spaces. If you're looking to upgrade your CPU cooler, or you're piecing together a bespoke system, then these are the kind of fans you need.
You can use them as straight case fans as well, but you're going to pay a premium to do so. Impressive given the maximum noise level of They obviously don't shift as much air as the Turbos can, but they're quieter for it too, so the choice is yours. Here's some good ol' Noctua khaki-and-mud for the diehards. The Noctua SFB above is a fantastic fan, and rightly our overall pick, but if you're looking for a top-tier mm model that can move a lot of air, the awkwardly named NF-A12x25 blows away the competition.
Of all the fans we tested, this is the model that pumped the most air through our test rig. Since those mid-range speeds are generally more likely to come up in day-to-day use, that makes the NF-A12x25 an excellent choice for your average gaming PC while still giving it the headroom to spin up to RPM in the middle of a heatwave. Sure, Noctua's trademark brown fans will stick out like a sore thumb in whatever PC you build, but they're also a sign of quality, and the NF-A12x25 lives up to the legacy.
It's also a nice touch how many accessories come with the NF-A12x25, from a inch extension cable and a Y-splitter to a bunch of rubber vibration dampers. The price is high, but it's hard to argue the value. NZXT makes gorgeous hardware. At its top speed of RPM, the Aer RGB 2 moves a surprising amount of air, but it's also louder than nearly every other fan we tested.
And even in our low-speed tests, the Aer RGB 2 proved a hair noisier than the rest of the competition. Look at it, though. It's really a sight to behold. It's an immaculate look, objectively as gaudy as any other RGB setup but seeming a bit sleeker and refined somehow. The Hue 2 controller is also more attractive than any of the other boxes we looked at, meaning you won't mind having to include it alongside the fans in your all-glass case. Our guide to the perfect gaming PC build.
Everything you need to know to create gaming perfection. Scythe doesn't make a great first impression, granted. Side-by-side with Noctua's Redux packaging, or Corsair's weighty boxes, Scythe feels every part of the budget fan solution. At RPM, the Kaze Flex moved more air in our test rig than some of the competition Corsair, for instance did at or even RPM, presumably a result of having eleven blades where most fans have only nine.
Lots of air goes hand-in-hand with noise, though, and indeed the Kaze Flex PWM is also noisier than the competition at any given speed setting—though since it tops out at RPM, the noise is never as bad as models that spin up to higher speeds. If you want a decent budget-friendly fan and the SFB isn't doing it for you? Scythe's blade-heavy blower might be the right choice.
That's worth something. This really depends on whether you have the space for mm fans inside your PC case. If you do, they're likely the best option. Though mm fans can have the benefit of being compact enough that you can fit in three mm fans in place of two mm fans, which will be louder but can be effective in moving air to the upper and lower reaches of your PC case.
Poor airflow will have a major impact on your PC's performance. There are varying opinions on fan placement and which provides the best airflow. A good place to start is to avoid a neutral pressure environment as stagnant, hot air collecting around your components won't help any PC. Essentially, you'll want to make sure that you have fans for intake and exhaust so that the air is moving inside your PC case. Both positive and negative air pressure setups will do the job well and ensure that cool air is being pulled into your case while hot air is expelled.
There are a lot of case fans out there, so we had to set a few guidelines. First, we limited our tests to mm fans. It's not because we hate mm. On the contrary! But mm is still the "default" case fan, and it's hard to compare different fan lines when you're also comparing different sizes, so we stuck to mm versions as a control. We've tried to provide the model number for the mm version where possible.
With that in mind, we contacted a number of the most popular case fan manufacturers and had them send over both their best-selling and their personal favorite mm models. Then we hacked together a miniature wind tunnel with an anemometer inside, a device that measures airflow. This helped us match airflow between different fans at different RPM and then use a decibel meter to measure relative loudness. As we said up top: You want a balance between airflow and noise.
We took our decibel readings from five inches, which is closer to these fans than you'd ever be, but helped clarify what otherwise minute differences in noise level are. We then maxed out the RPM on each fan to test a theoretical airflow limit and the accompanying noise.
Chances are you'd never run most of these fans at percent—that's why they're PWM fans! But if you have an older motherboard without PWM or have a system that runs hot , you might hit this limit, and it's good to know how loud your PC could potentially get and how much air these fans hypothetically move. As for RGB lighting? Well, we have eyes for those tests. He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later.
When he dropped it out of the window. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck. Included in this guide:. Image 1 of 4.
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