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Courgar Hydraulic-Bearing 120MM and 140MM review

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Here is my review and video review of the CFD120 and CFD140 fans from Cougar.

 

First of all they are pricey, about 20 dollars each.  I got a 20% off coupon so I managed to snag 3 120's and a 140 for 60 bucks and some change.  They offer a GREAT color scheme and design with a blue LED.  To be honest, I would have been okay with the color without the LED as well, but it does look great!!  The static pressure is rated at 1.74MM H20 and the noise is very low as stated.  I am using 1 of them on my hyper 212 and it delivers the same performance as the fan at 2500 rpm but it's MUCH quieter at 1200+/-10% RPM.

 

The design is very good offering rubberized edges and rubberized and standard screws for mounting.  The sleeving on the cable is very basic, but very effective with blending and matching.  The fan wires are already black, but a sleeved cable is still nice to see.  The fan edges have slots that edge out away to help with more static pressure to make it slightly more optimized for radiators.

 

The performance is as expected.  It performs on par with the Hyper 212 stock fan at HALF the RPM and alot less noise.  I will be testing these on a 360x120x60MM radiator when I do my custom loop.  For now, I am very happy and here is my breakdown categories.

 

Price: 6

Aesthetics: 9

Performance (airflow): 9

Performance (heatsink/rad): 8

Noise: 8

 

Overall score: 8/10

 

Video is live doing some stabilizations on it now.

 

Specs: Core I7-2600K @ 4.5GHz @ 1.35V, 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance Black 1600MHz CL9, Cooler Master Evo 212, MSI Z77 Mpower Motherboard, Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X @ 1000/1400, Cooler Master HAF 932 Blue Edition w/ 3 Cougar Hydraulic Bearing 120MM fans (2 up top 1 in the bottom) replaced side panel with a window, and rear fan with a Cougar Hydraulic Bearing 140MM, Cooler Master GX 650 80+ Bronze PSU, Samsung DVD-RW, Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD, Seagate 750GB SATA III 7200RPM

 

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Was lookin at those fans, cant wait to see the vid.

I am a happy wuffy

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It's up, a little shakey editing it now.

Specs: Core I7-2600K @ 4.5GHz @ 1.35V, 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance Black 1600MHz CL9, Cooler Master Evo 212, MSI Z77 Mpower Motherboard, Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X @ 1000/1400, Cooler Master HAF 932 Blue Edition w/ 3 Cougar Hydraulic Bearing 120MM fans (2 up top 1 in the bottom) replaced side panel with a window, and rear fan with a Cougar Hydraulic Bearing 140MM, Cooler Master GX 650 80+ Bronze PSU, Samsung DVD-RW, Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD, Seagate 750GB SATA III 7200RPM

 

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Should be up and ready.

Specs: Core I7-2600K @ 4.5GHz @ 1.35V, 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance Black 1600MHz CL9, Cooler Master Evo 212, MSI Z77 Mpower Motherboard, Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X @ 1000/1400, Cooler Master HAF 932 Blue Edition w/ 3 Cougar Hydraulic Bearing 120MM fans (2 up top 1 in the bottom) replaced side panel with a window, and rear fan with a Cougar Hydraulic Bearing 140MM, Cooler Master GX 650 80+ Bronze PSU, Samsung DVD-RW, Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD, Seagate 750GB SATA III 7200RPM

 

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video still looks messed up, screws with my eyes coz of the shakyness

 

how do they stack up against noctua nf-f12?

Stuff:  i7 7700k @ (dat nibba succ) | ASRock Z170M OC Formula | G.Skill TridentZ 3600 c16 | EKWB 1080 @ 2100 mhz  |  Acer X34 Predator | R4 | EVGA 1000 P2 | 1080mm Radiator Custom Loop | HD800 + Audio-GD NFB-11 | 850 Evo 1TB | 840 Pro 256GB | 3TB WD Blue | 2TB Barracuda

Hwbot: http://hwbot.org/user/lays/ 

FireStrike 980 ti @ 1800 Mhz http://hwbot.org/submission/3183338 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/11574089

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Good video man, be cool to see more.

 

Fans are a bit too blue for me, its probably the transparency I don't like that type of look.

 

Why does everyone hate on Noctua fans, I think that they look beautiful!

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