Best airflow case fans 201812/3/2023 Trading blows performance-wise with $30 Noctua fans is no mean feat, and it’s to Arctic’s credit that they opted to keep pricing low on these. But what puts these Arctic fans at the top of the pile is the price: at around $10 each, these fans are genuinely budget-friendly options that punch well above their weight. They’re not as quiet as silence-focused fans, but they’re quiet enough to run at full speed without turning your rig into a jet engine. You’re not sacrificing noise for this much airflow, either, with both fans producing around 22.5 dBA at full speed. The P14 is still great, and it’s the case fan I use in my rig, but it lags a bit further behind Noctua’s equivalent 140 mm fan than the P12. Its 56.3 CFM of airflow and 2.20 mm-H2O of static pressure place it only slightly behind Noctua’s top-tier offerings for cooling performance. Of the two, the 120 mm P12 strikes us as the better choice, at least as far as value goes. They’re incredible value, and we think that makes both of these fans excellent choices for almost any PC builder out there. But what they do offer is virtually top-tier performance for budget-tier pricing. * Arctic uses Sone for their noise ratings, and conversions to dBA are approximate at best.Īrctic’s P12 and P14 pressure-optimized case fans aren’t the outright best-performing fans you can buy, nor are they particularly premium.
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