Good overall rgb fans ?

[Sil3ntDragon]

I'm looking at buying case fans that all should look the same. and one of them will be used on one of the radiators I'm planning to mount. 
I need about 3 front fans one top fan and a rear fan. one of all these fans will be on a radiator.

I was looking at "Corsair LL120 RGB 120mm" to begin with until I saw a review or two stating that they wouldn't be so good for the radiator. 
As I'm looking for something that is aesthetically pleasing and uniformly consistent.

my requirements is that it should look nice(subjective I know) Perform decently well with radiators, be the same all around so there is no inconsistency in the appeal, and I dislike noise so low noise would be quite essential. 
So I went out the deep end and found a few I might consider however it is getting increasingly difficult to find reviews on RGB stuff that talks about how well they actually perform, so I'm here asking for opinions?

I'm currently looking at the following:
Corsair LL120 RGB 120mm                                             (was a top contender until I saw a few performance reviews on radiators)
Cooler Master MasterFan SF360R ARGB PWM             (is my current top contender because of price and looks but can't find any reviews talking about performance)
Thermaltake Riing 12 RGB PWM 120mm
Fractal Design Prisma AL-12 RGB
Aerocool Orbit RGB 120mm
Cooler Master MasterFan SF120R ARGB PWM 120mm LED

question is a simple one would I go wrong performance wise with any of these ?
would you suggest something better ? 
I would prefer to have RGB or similar as this build is going to be fairly visible and I need it to be pleasing to look at.  


 

[Chiyawa]

If you are looking for radiator fan, I suggest you look for fans with high static air pressure (usually rated in mm-H2O). The higher the rating, the more air it can push through the radiator fin.

 

As for ThermalTake fans, I highly recommend Pure series fan (PurePlus or Pure ARGB).

Pure Plus 12: https://www.thermaltake.com/pure-plus-12-rgb-radiator-fan-tt-premium-edition-3-fan-pack.html

Pure 12 ARGB: https://www.thermaltake.com/pure-12-argb-sync-radiator-fan-tt-premium-edition-3-fan-pack.html

they do have 14cm fans as well for each

 

I'm using the Pure Plus 12 series, it comes with 3 12cm fans and a controller. The controller needs 1 USB2.0 header from the motherboard and a SATA power from the PSU. The fan also comes with a USB2.0 header plug, but you can plug them into your controller. You can then control your fan with the TT RGB PLUS software (note: It couldn't sync with your motherboard RGB. If you want the LED light to sunc with your motherboard, get the Pure ARGB).

 

The fans supplied are good for overall, as it has a good static air pressure (1.59mm H2O) and good airflow (56.45CFM) at 1500rpm, and can be use as case fan and radiator. You can control the fan speed using the software.

[Sil3ntDragon]

15 hours ago, Chiyawa said:

If you are looking for radiator fan, I suggest you look for fans with high static air pressure (usually rated in mm-H2O). The higher the rating, the more air it can push through the radiator fin.

 

As for ThermalTake fans, I highly recommend Pure series fan (PurePlus or Pure ARGB).

Pure Plus 12: https://www.thermaltake.com/pure-plus-12-rgb-radiator-fan-tt-premium-edition-3-fan-pack.html

Pure 12 ARGB: https://www.thermaltake.com/pure-12-argb-sync-radiator-fan-tt-premium-edition-3-fan-pack.html

they do have 14cm fans as well for each

 

I'm using the Pure Plus 12 series, it comes with 3 12cm fans and a controller. The controller needs 1 USB2.0 header from the motherboard and a SATA power from the PSU. The fan also comes with a USB2.0 header plug, but you can plug them into your controller. You can then control your fan with the TT RGB PLUS software (note: It couldn't sync with your motherboard RGB. If you want the LED light to sunc with your motherboard, get the Pure ARGB).

 

The fans supplied are good for overall, as it has a good static air pressure (1.59mm H2O) and good airflow (56.45CFM) at 1500rpm, and can be use as case fan and radiator. You can control the fan speed using the software.

Thank you so much for clarifying those things for me. I had no idea what mattered regarding air pressure and airflow nor what values were good or good enough.

 

I will look in to the suggested fans and see how they could fit in my system.

[Slayerking92]

As a side note,  if you have any RGB ecosystem already installed,  you may want to stick with it.  Having multiple applications running just to control lights, is just using up system resources, and will sometimes conflict with each other.

[Sil3ntDragon]

17 minutes ago, Slayerking92 said:

As a side note,  if you have any RGB ecosystem already installed,  you may want to stick with it.  Having multiple applications running just to control lights, is just using up system resources, and will sometimes conflict with each other.

I have none currently as it is a new system I'm building. However I've never had RGB on anything so I'm pretty new with that option. Thanks for letting me know that I should stick with the same RGB ecosystem, was for some reason having the idea that RGB controllers would be universal.

[WoodenMarker]

What are your specs?

 

LL's have great lighting options but they're okay at best when it comes to performance due to the short fan blades. 

[Sil3ntDragon]

it is going to be a
Ryzen 2400g
16gb ram
as it's going to be used as a server I won't need a GFX card beyond the internal one in the 2400g. so I'm primarily looking for aesthetic and silent options for cooling, was thinking that I would reduce the need for cooling by making sure the case would be sufficiently cooled too. hence my question here on which RGB fans would be good for both the radiator and the case.

my intention is to use a water-cooled aio for the CPU, and then just make it low noise and look good from there. 

[WoodenMarker]

56 minutes ago, Sil3ntDragon said:

Ryzen 2400g
my intention is to use a water-cooled aio for the CPU, and then just make it low noise and look good from there. 

The 2400g is already very easy to cool. If it's a matter of aesthetic, just pick whichever looks best to you. For low noise, you can run the fan at very low rpm and still have ample cooling as long as you're not heavily oc'ing. 

 

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[Sil3ntDragon]

3 hours ago, WoodenMarker said:

The 2400g is already very easy to cool. If it's a matter of aesthetic, just pick whichever looks best to you. For low noise, you can run the fan at very low rpm and still have ample cooling as long as you're not heavily oc'ing. 

 

Make sure to quote a post or tag a member when replying or else they won't get a notification that you replied to them.

Thank you for your answer.  I will remember to quote or tag in the future.

I just figured that running as a server would require some better quality fans than any other system no matter the load it would be under. because of the always on nature of a server.

[WoodenMarker]

8 hours ago, Sil3ntDragon said:

Thank you for your answer.  I will remember to quote or tag in the future.
I just figured that running as a server would require some better quality fans than any other system no matter the load it would be under. because of the always on nature of a server.

You could use a second fan in push / pull for redundancy in case a fan fails. For the same reason of reliability and for lower noise, I'd recommend air cooling instead if you don't already have the liquid cooler. 

[Sil3ntDragon]

1 hour ago, WoodenMarker said:

You could use a second fan in push / pull for redundancy in case a fan fails. For the same reason of reliability and for lower noise, I'd recommend air cooling instead if you don't already have the liquid cooler. 

I guess but I feel that Air coolers look so bulky and considering this server is on display in my living room I wanted it to at least look nice and slim.

 

[WoodenMarker]

1 hour ago, Sil3ntDragon said:

I guess but I feel that Air coolers look so bulky and considering this server is on display in my living room I wanted it to at least look nice and slim.

What's considered bulky? As mentioned, the 2400g is easy to cool. The stock cooler is already adequate and there are quiet coolers that aren't much larger. 

[Sil3ntDragon]

On 10/12/2019 at 1:04 AM, WoodenMarker said:

What's considered bulky? As mentioned, the 2400g is easy to cool. The stock cooler is already adequate and there are quiet coolers that aren't much larger. 

well basically any fan/coolblock is bulky compared to a water block, as a radiator can be sort of hidden in the side.

but I digress I'm asking about fans for the case that could potentially also handle a radiator.