120mm Fan Testing on an MCR120 Radiator Round 6

[Martinm210]

Noctua NF-S12B

Thanks to Vapor for sponsoring

This fan surprised me. I had been going on the assumption that for a good radiator fan, that you must have high blade count and large dense blades. It "Seemed" to make sense and under those assumptions I completely expected this fan to be only good in an open case type condition....I was WRONG!

NOISE LEVEL
It's good, actually a bit better than the yate medium at slower speeds and continues to do at least as good as the yate medium baseline fan all the way. At 8V it was better than most fans.

NOISE QUALITY
Very good, no odd resonance issues, just good smooth consistent sound at all levels.

OVERALL
It's a good fan, performs better in Noise/CFM than the yate loon medium and has a good smooth consistent sound at all RPM levels.

Still not quite sure how this one does better than the noctua P12 on my test rig...but it did..perhaps the P12s were bad samples.. Lesson learned, do NOT judge a fan by it's looks, there is no correlation between numbers of blades, density, thickness, bearing type, etc....looks mean nothing at all....

FYI, I noticed my Amperage meter is going whacky here. I had to retest for amperage separately to get the correct wattage. Not sure why, but under a retest the milliamps was reading just fine. I'll have to watch that. Anyhow, don't use the amperage in the video, it's wrong.

VIDEO LINK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyO5vXs13Pc







COMPARED TO ALL FANS TESTED SO FAR