Cooling Fans Practice Reviews

The marathon starts: Review with 6 case and radiator fans from be quiet! Black Noise, Corsair, Cooler Master, Noctua and Thermaltake

Volume flow (throughput)

The Cooler Master Masterfan MF 120 Halo is the only fan in the test field that doesn’t make it past 500 rpm. otherwise it is very interesting to see how the ratio between the test patterns changes and shifts at different speeds. At 500 rpm, the performance of most fans kind of aligns with each other, where at 1000 rpm real class differences were still visible.

By the way, the black bar is the information from the data sheet, which we check at this point. We see that Blacknoise gives inappropriate values for the fan in the data sheet, where the NB eLoop X PWM B12 xP is said to be almost 32 (!) percentage points ahead of the Noctua NF-A12 PWM. This specification has turned out to be a mistake (see previous page), as it would be more appropriate for a fan with 2400 rpm. But this will be corrected as soon as possible, according to the manufacturer.

 

Of course, this also applies to the CFM value, as we list both and convert any missing values from other data. Nearly 78 CFM would be a dream result, of course, but that is unfortunately countered by the rather humorless physics as serious science. We already had the reasons and typos are human, but probably unattractive for the layman.

Static pressure

Cooler Master’s fan is more of a total failure here, and there isn’t even a radiator in use. As a case fan, however, you can just about still accept it. Here, too, Black Noise unfortunately puts a value in the data sheet that is clearly too high. That it is not impossible, however, shows the Toughfan, which even really deep stacks and performs significantly more than officially stated. It will be interesting to see how the fan then behaves on the radiators and what the replacement model of the Noiseblocker so will perform. Retest coming up.

 

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Igor Wallossek

Editor-in-chief and name-giver of igor'sLAB as the content successor of Tom's Hardware Germany, whose license was returned in June 2019 in order to better meet the qualitative demands of web content and challenges of new media such as YouTube with its own channel.

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