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Radiator fans: Anyone try the new LED SP120's?

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As topic titles says... anyone have them? Looking for feedback.

 

I currently have Bitfenix Specter Pro's and while they look great I am not satisfied with the performance. 

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They're basically SP120 Quiet Edition's with LED's so you can check out the non-LED version to get an idea of the performance.

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I currently have Bitfenix Specter Pro's and while they look great I am not satisfied with the performance. 

Spectre Pros suck. Period. The regular Spectre are actually a landslide better.

 

SP120 LED's are a lot better, they're basically SP120's with LEDs on them though, nothing new or groundbreaking. I'm not sure if the LED versions come in PWM though

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just get an ordinary SP120 without LED's and put a LED strip in your rig, i think it looks better imho

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Spectre Pros suck. Period. The regular Spectre are actually a landslide better.

 

SP120 LED's are a lot better, they're basically SP120's with LEDs on them though, nothing new or groundbreaking. I'm not sure if the LED versions come in PWM though

 

Yea they've been a big let down. Look nice... perform like trash.

 

The new SP120 LED's do not come in PWM. They also look to have a different blade design.

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Yea they've been a big let down. Look nice... perform like trash.

 

The new SP120 LED's do not come in PWM. They also look to have a different blade design.

They just look different but in the end they're basically clear blades.

 

Do you really need LED radiator fans?

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They just look different but in the end they're basically clear blades.

 

Do you really need LED radiator fans?

 

I suppose not... just like the looks of them. On a 900D at the bottom rad it looks nice. Can't pull off the same glow with an LED strip... I've tried.

 

I know a couple rosewill hyperborea's and an led strip would likely beat the SP's from a performance aspect lol.

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I suppose not... just like the looks of them. On a 900D at the bottom rad it looks nice. Can't pull off the same glow with an LED strip... I've tried.

 

I know a couple rosewill hyperborea's and an led strip would likely beat the SP's from a performance aspect lol.

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I'm using, well for now any way, 4 of the white led version on an XSPC AX240,  and to be honest I'm not impressed, they are the first Corsair fans I've used, and the last. If I could be bothered Id stick my white Alpenfons back on, since the SP's went on my temps went up by 3 degrees, and considering the weather here in the UK is getting cooler, that isn't right.

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I'm using, well for now any way, 4 of the white led version on an XSPC AX240,  and to be honest I'm not impressed, they are the first Corsair fans I've used, and the last. If I could be bothered Id stick my white Alpenfons back on, since the SP's went on my temps went up by 3 degrees, and considering the weather here in the UK is getting cooler, that isn't right.

 

I appreciate the feedback. As an update I went with regular SP120 High Performance PWM versions and picked up two swiftech PWM fan controller hubs.

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