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Hey guys, I'l be building my first pc in a month or smth and I have 3 different sets of fans(Corsair; SP120-just got them, LL120-in my case and ML120-in my AIO cooling) and wanted to know which fans should I put where. I got 6 slots; 3 in the front, 1 in the back and 3 on the 'up...ig'. My AIO is the corsair h150i so it takes 3 slots. Hope y'all can understand what I mean, english is NOT my first language.

i have the corsair 280x and my front intake fans wont go below 600rpm, they usually are around 650rpm even with using icue software. i tried putting them in zero rpm and custom but nothing works. Any ideas?

I've researched this topic, but the last thread i could find was from multiple years ago. So what i was wondering is if i could modify the Corsair LL120/140 fans so that they can be used as intake fans and still have the light loop facing inward. Yes, i've heard of the QL120/140s, but i'm getting 9 of these (doing an 011d build) so i don't want to pay 90 extra dollars for worse-performing and (imo) worse-looking fans. Thanks in advance yall

I recently bought H100i platinum SE and it came with 2 LL120 fans. Since I had a commander pro in hand, I connected both fan power and rgb power cable of 2 LL fans to the commander pro. Am I suppose to connect included fans to the aio fan headers? Should I make changes or am I good?

I just want to know which would be better to show off my new build. (in the Lian Li o11 mini BTW) I suck a cable management, which is why I am considering the UNI's. Also, the build is in white and the fans must be 120MM, so take that into consideration if any other fans may be an option. Any help is much appreciated!

In keeping with my long-standing tradition of thinking I know what I'm doing when I don't, I recently ordered two single Corsair LL120 RGB fans without realising that these are intended as expansion modules for those who have already splashed out on the triple pack with the hub and lighting node included. All I wanted was 2 fans with white housings and white LED lighting for my AIO radiator to bring a little more contrast to the "black and white" build I'm working on. In retrospect the ML140 PRO LED White fans would have been both better and cheaper. But I am as inpatient as I am overconfident, so I decided to apply myself and see if there was some way to rescue the situation. And there was! Sort of. I'm posting this to let anyone in a similar situation know that you can control at least 2 (and maybe more) Corsair RGB fans without the hub or the node if you are prepared to do a little soldering, as long as your motherboard has an addressable RGB header. The only thing you won't be able to do is control the fans individually. And here is how: 1. Establish which of the pins on your motherboard's addressable RGB header are the 5V, the Data Out and the Ground pin. On the ASRock B450M Pro4 it's (from left to right) 5V - Data Out - Blank - Ground. Note: Make sure you are using the addressable RGB header, not one of the normal RGB LED headers as these are 12V and will fry your fan LEDs. On the ASRock B450M Pro4 the addressable header is grey while the other 2 are white. 2. If you have an RGB header cable already, strip the wires on one end and set it aside. If not, you will need to source one or find a suitable alternative. I tried using a USB 2.0 cable, but the RGB header pins appear to be thinner than USB header pins, so this didn't work. In the end, I used a 5-pin subwoofer speaker level input cable from my car audio junk box and cut it down to four with a Stanley knife. This turned out to be ideal because the pin spacing on a speaker level input cable is just right, they grab the RGB header pins well and the other end of the cables are already stripped. 3. The 4-pin LED cable from the Corsair LL120 fan (and I assume the other models, but don't take that for granted) labelled "TO RGB HUB" is composed of, in order, 5V - Data Out - Data In - Ground. I initially made the mistake of assuming that the end cable with all the grey markings on it was the 5V, but it turned out to be the other way around. To confirm you've got it right, pull the connectors out of the plug, stick one of the outside connectors into the 5V hole on a female Molex plug (far left if the two indentations are at the top) and try out the other three connectors on one of the ground holes (the two in the middle). If you get lights on the fan (mine turned red), you've found your 5V side. 4. Match up your 5V cables and solder. Match up Data Out from header to Data In on fan cable and solder. Match up ground cables and solder away. Insulate your soldering points and wrap it all up in heat shrink or electrical tape and, presto, you're done! Wired up in this way, my two fans work perfectly with ASRock's Polychrome Sync software. If you are using Polychrome, just set the "Addressable LED Number" to however many LEDs are on the fan. It's 16 for the LL120. I know using the Corsair hub and node provides a little more functionality, but for my purposes this solution is ideal as I will not be adding any additional RGB fans or other peripherals. That said, my motherboard still has two normal RGB headers available in case I ever get strip fever. I apologise to those of you who are smarter than I am for teaching you to suck eggs, but I spent hours scouring the web for a solution and ended up having to piece this one together from a number of sources, so maybe someone out there will find it helpful. I, for one, was never going to spent £85.99 on the three-fan pack with the included controllers, and it's nice to know that I didn't have to. In fact, having proven to myself that my motherboard and ASRock's RGB controller software are perfectly capable of managing these two fans (and possible more) without the need for any additional hardware, I would take issue with Corsair for not making it easier to do so. At the end of the day, the cable I put together could be produced at negligible cost and included in the single fan packs as I believe most addressable RBG motherboard headers use the same pin configuration, but please call me out on this if I'm wrong. If the above guide is too confusing, I would happily produce some visual aides. Just let me know.

Hi, I'm planning on running 3 LL120 fans and 5 LL140 fans in my Corsair 680X. However the Lighting Node Pro that comes with the system only allows for 6 RGB fans. Should I just get another fan hub to control the extra 2 fans? Or can I wire these in to my motherboard? I want to be able to use Corsair's Icue software and have all the fans in sync. Thanks!

A few days ago I installed 3 LL120 Corsair Fans and they worked perfectly for the first day, but when I turned my pc back on the next morning, the fans were a different color than what I had them set to on IQUE. I tried re arranging the the fans in the Lighting Node Pro, and it only turned the fans completly off. I've been trying several solutions and I haven't come to any solution yet. I believe this is A Mystic Light problem, as basically make the same thing happen to my Corsair keyboard, I can turn it off through Mystic Light, try and change the settings and IQUE and the keyboard wont change, I just cant find my fans in Mystic Light, so maybe my analysis is wrong, or maybe I'm just to dumb to find the fan effects in Mystic light. Any help at all would be extremly helpful, as this has been driving me up the wall for the past couple of days, I had this beautiful RGB build and now all i have is just some of my motherboard lights on. Like I said anything will help, and if you need screenshots or any extra information, please dont be afraid to ask, I just want my PC to look great again.

Hi all! So a friend from college recently offered to send me a single LL120 fan, obviously this would mean I would not have a lighting node or a controller. I know the fans have a 4 pin PWM cable and also a propriatary RGB header. My question is whether I can use the fan by simply plugging the 4pin into the motherboard and leaving the RGB header unplugged? I couldn't work out whether this would mean the fan wouldn't work at all, would work but with no LED, or would work with LED but just on whatever the default lighting setting is since I can't control it. I am not too fussed either way since the RGB doesn't interest me too much. Thanks in advance for any help!

I'm running 6 Corsair LL120 fans inside of a Corsair 011 Dynamic case. All six fans are connected to a single Corsair RGB hub which is connected to Channel 1 on a 2 channel Corsair RGB controller. The fans run lighting in a random pattern during startup, and then the LEDs shut off once Windows is fully started. The only way they will stay lit is if I open and run iCue in the background and manually select a lighting profile. It's confusing, because I also have Dominator RAM which runs its default lighting profile from power-up without a problem. I understand that LEDs can act strangely during startup (my headphones, keyboard, and MoBo LEDs all light up different colors until Windows boots fully), but not defaulting to a profile afterwards is frustrating. For reference my setup is: OS: Win 10 Pro MoBo: Gigabyte Aorus X570 Wifi Elite; RGB = RGB Fusion 2.0 CPU: Ryzen 3900x GPU: Gigabyte Aorus 2080 Super 3x OC; RGB = RBG Fusion 2.0 RAM: 4x8GB Dominator DDR4 3600 (XMP); RGB = iCue HD: 1TB Samsung EVO NVME SSD, 2TB Inland NVME SSD, 2TB Barracuda 7200 HDD Other LED: 1x Addressed LED Strips (MoBo RBG1 Header); RGB = RGB Fusion 2.0 CPU Cooler: NZXT X63 360MM AIO (w/3 LL120s) (CPU OPT Header); RGB = NZXT CAM LED Fans: 6x Corsair LL120 -> 1 six port Corsair RGB Hub (SATA Power) -> Ch 1 of 2 on Corsair RGB Controller (SATA Power); 3x CPU FAN header/3x Sys Fan 1 Header; RGB = iCue Other Fans: 3x Noctua Redux 120 -> Sys Fan 2 header Keyboard: SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL; RGB = SteelSeries Engine Headphones: SteelSeries Arctic 5; RGB = SteelSeries Engine SteelSeries Engine, RGB Fusion 2.0, and NZXT CAM, and my Corsair RAM all go to the settings I programmed. iCue is sincerely frustrating me with these LL120s. Any help troubleshooting or with the settings on iCue would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I want to build a new system. the case is 280X, thinking on 3rd gen ryzen 3600 or 3600x maybe 9600k. I will take the h100i now the question is should I stay with my ml120 pro rgb or shift to ll120?

I am planning to do an upgrade to the 3rd gen ryzen cpus and with that I will change my case(at least try to, it depends on cpu+mobo prices) to the corsair crystal 280x with the h100i aio cooler and 2 LL120 RGB fans and I would try to still use the fans than come included with the case(doesn't come with rgb fans) adding to a total of 6 fans(aio on top(x2 ML120+ 240mm rad)+ x2 LL120RGB at thefront + x2 ML120 at the bottom). And I haven't found any stores(in spain) that sell the corsair hub other than corsair's web site. But they do sell other fan hub like this ones: https://www.pccomponentes.com/aerocool-project-7-p7-h1-hub-controlador-rgb-para-ventiladores https://www.amazon.es/Thermaltake-Commander-FP-Concentrador-Ventiladores/dp/B015KG6HP0/ref=asc_df_B015KG6HP0/?tag=googshopes-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=82853727250&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=639400820513735638&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9061047&hvtargid=pla-260963482478&psc=1 I've also though of using something like this and connect it on to the mobo. https://www.amazon.es/DEEPCOOL-Fan-HUB-Multiplicador-ventiladores/dp/B008YD7B0M/ref=asc_df_B008YD7B0M/?tag=googshopes-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=301006161094&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=639400820513735638&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9061047&hvtargid=pla-404766633119&psc=1 Does anyone know if this two methods would work. Thx

Hello, I'm currently building a PC with a Corsair AIO. It's the H100i RGB PLATINUM which includes 2x 120mm ML fans. Someone here recommended me to install the rad in a push/pull config, since I can't install the AIO on the top side of my Corsair 465X case. Unfortunately all my parts are here and I'm thinking how I can mount the rad with all four fans connected?

So I recently got a new case, 'corsair 680x', which comes with a lighting node pro and 4 fans (3 ll120 + 1 120 non rgb fan). The lighting node worked fine at first glance, but I didn't have enough pwm connectors, so I bought an additional splitter. I installed the splitter and you guessed it, the entire pc broke the f down. I can't play games because it will just randomly lose all ethernet connection and then the screen will just freeze. Discord has the same issue but less frequently. My ll120 fans don' t light up anymore and the lighting node pro isn't detected by icue software either (they do spin though). The gpu usage tends to have major changes over time while idle(even yt vids get it to 70% for some reason) and disk usage for some reason as well. Windows will often just have a disgustingly long delay between action and what's being displayed and it's just unusable in general. I have no clue whatsoever on what has caused this, how it happened or if these things are even related to eachother. If you're somehow able to help me please do, Thanks in advance.

So I’m gonna do a 500d SE build and wondering how to do RGB. so it comes with 3 ll120 fans at the front. now here’s the thing - intels cpu cooler’s don’t come with ll120 fans, the only one that does comes with white ll120 fans, which are specifically made to be used with radiators, and if you check the following thread, I’m told the black ones are not. So which fans should I use for the top rad, rad at top so you can see fans from both sides. Should I then buy 1 ll120 fan for the back and then no rgb on front? Or should I buy a different brand of fan for the top and hope it doesn’t look funny? The h100 Black cpu cooler comes with ml rgb fans will those look funny just at top and will I need a separate icue board thing? Does anyone have a 500d se build and what did they do?

im going for all rgb in a lian li o11 air (which i guess is really common nowadays) and i want to get corsair rgb fans, either LL120 or ML120 i REALLY want the LL120 fans but i think the way i want to have the exhaust/intake would obstruct the view of their intake (which is supposed to be the pretty side) does anyone have any pictures of what the back and front of the LL120 fans look like to compare? i searched for an hour on youtube but unsurprisingly everyone only show them from the prettier side.... i don't really care about performance since this thing will have at least 9 fans (or 12 still undecided) so it will be loud and will have good airflow no matter what i do

Hi everyone , i'm having a little bit of hard time trying to install my LL120 fans to the rear of my corsair 275R airflow case. Every time i try to install the fans with the screws that come along with them,the screws either don't move at all or damage the case while trying to screw it in , also while 3 of the corners sits perfectly with the case one part always doesn't quite fit and sits a little back from the screwing place of the case.The fans are 120mm and they should be compatible with the case so i don't understand what i'm doing wrong.Should i use some other type screw ?Should i just don't mind the screws getting stuck and try to use a little bit of force ? any kind of help is appreciated thanks.

Hi, I want to build a PC and I am wondering if all of this parts are compatible with Razer Synapse. I want to use 3x LL120 with the 465x, MSI B550, Ryzen Wraith Prism, Gskill 3600mhz Neo, Msi RTX2080 Trio, Lian Li Strimer Plus, led compatible with mystic light and a VGA holder compatible with mystic light. Mystic compatible VGAs and motherboards typically are compatible with Razer Synapse. Gskill Neo is compatible with Mystic Light. LL120 are compatible with Mystic Light Lian Li Strimer Plus are also compatible with mystic light. LEDs are also compatible with mystic light. and the VGA holder is also compatible with mystic light. The wraith prism is kinda compatible with mystic light. But?, can you control all of this devices with mystic light and then with Razer Synapse? Thanks for your answers!

So, recently I bought one LL120 corsair fan. In the box there was the fan with two wires and no rgb hub or anything. I have installed the fan, one wire in the fan header and one wire in the rgb header. But I can't control my rgb. I installed icue for corsair fan but it couldn't recognize any plugged in devices. I also tried their other softer "Link" but it also didn't work. Is it necessary to buy the rgb hub thing or can I somehow fix it in the icue software???

So I heard that two series of fans from corsair (example: SP120 and LL120) wont work together on the corsair lighting node core. Does the LL120 series fall into this category? I am planning on buying the Corsair 280x RGB and the Corsair H100i, both of witch come with Corsair's LL120mm fans. (2 each) However, the the case (280x) comes with the back ones, and the AIO comes with the white ones. I know that the white LL120's have a higher RPM, but will this affect the RGB goodness that i'm looking for? Thanks!

hi i have only had the corsair LL 120 fans for about a day they were working but they have now started to flicker when on any setting that isn't a static colour any help would be appreciated, Thanks video0_(1).mov

Hi, I have a plan to buy a single corsair ll120 fan for the rear fan bracket. I have few doubts which I can find a solution for 1. Does the fan RGB be lit by default if I use only the motherboard fan port? 2. My z270mx motherboard has a RGB_C port, Can I use that somehow to control the RGB?

Does anyone know if the Corsair LL120's are Aura sync compatible?

Hi,Looking to hook up some sweet RGB to my Corsair LL120's. Can the lighting node pro do this alone? or will I need a fan hub as well? Looking at the lighting node pro it has 2 3 pin connectors but the RGB cable off of the fans are a 4 pin connector.Also, my mobo (strix b-350 gaming) has a RGB header connection. Will plugging the RGB cable directly onto this enable the leds to produce colour? I understand I wont be able to control the colours via iCUE but would they still work?Thanks