New Arctic P12 Max fan. 3 for price of 1 Noctua. No downsides?

[chameleoneel]

I guess the only thing left to see is, what's the longevity on bearing noise.

 

[TheSlySyl]

I have decade old Arctic Cooling fans that don't make any bearing noise, I'm not expecting these to be worse for no particular reason.

 

[toast0]

If you don't want to pay full freight, Noctua's Redux line is still good. $15 for a NF-P12 redux-1300 PWM. And it's grey if the brown and tan of their normal fans turns you off.

 

[chameleoneel]

If you don't want to pay full freight, Noctua's Redux line is still good. $15 for a NF-P12 redux-1300 PWM. And it's grey if the brown and tan of their normal fans turns you off.

Noctua's Redux fans are older designs which are strictly worse. And they also usually limit their RPM. These Arctics are not strictly worse.

Also, I'm no Noctua super supporter, as I don't think their bearing quality is very good. Except possibly in their top 120mm fan tested in the video above. But I have never owned one.

 

[pendragon1]

lol, shafted again. only available from a european scalper on .ca. ill have to wait and see if artic sells them in their store. still waiting for the mx-6 to come down in price too....

 

[xDiVolatilX]

I just bought a slim 15mm 120 arctic fan
(not the one in this thread)
This one ARCTIC P12 Slim PWM PST - 120 mm Case Fan with PWM Sharing Technology (PST), Pressure-optimised, quiet motor, Computer, extra slim, 300-2100 RPM - Black https://a.co/d/2YaoPnm
for one of my rads. Looking forward to using it for it's space saving slimmer profile. I'll report my findings here.

 

[pendragon1]

I just bought a slim 15mm 120 arctic fan

so did i and now theyre on sale... first one was a dud though, one of the blades dragged on the frame. so i exchanged it and the new one is working good. it moves almost as much air and makes almost as much noise as the normal ones. but thats all ill say, unless you wanna make a thread for those.

 

[xDiVolatilX]

so did i and now theyre on sale... first one was a dud though, one of the blades dragged on the frame. so i exchanged it and the new one is working good. it moves almost as much air and makes almost as much noise as the normal ones. but thats all ill say, unless you wanna make a thread for those.

Nice, good news. If I like it a lot I may replace my rad fans with it. I'll start with the rear 120 push fan, I probably should have gotten the pull for it also in hindsight.

 

[chameleoneel]

I just bought a slim 15mm 120 arctic fan

(not the one in this thread)

This one ARCTIC P12 Slim PWM PST - 120 mm Case Fan with PWM Sharing Technology (PST), Pressure-optimised, quiet motor, Computer, extra slim, 300-2100 RPM - Black https://a.co/d/2YaoPnm

for one of my rads. Looking forward to using it for it's space saving slimmer profile. I'll report my findings here.

I recently bought the updated version of Scythe's slim fan-----and it started have ticking and rubbing noises at idle speeds, after 2 days of use.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BRRQCF46/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Volkswagen]

$8.99 on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/ARCTIC-P12-Max-High-Performance-Controlled/dp/B09VDNKL4G

 

[chameleoneel]

$8.99 on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/ARCTIC-P12-Max-High-Performance-Controlled/dp/B09VDNKL4G

Doesn't show Prime/free shipping, yet.

 

[sinisterDei]

Arctic is my go-to fan vendor. I feel like Noctua are better, but not better for the money. Every time I go to buy fans, it seems like I can buy 5 packs of Arctic fans for what it seems to cost for a single Noctua of the same size.

 

[sk3tch]

Doesn't show Prime/free shipping, yet.

Direct from Arctic - 4 of them were $48 total with shipping. Awesome value!

 

[doubletake]

I ordered 2 of them to try out on my Liquid Freezer II. It's a 280mm but I have a couple of Noctua 120->140mm adapters laying around so I'll see how they fare in comparison to the stock fans.

 

[SmokeRngs]

Arctic is my go-to fan vendor. I feel like Noctua are better, but not better for the money. Every time I go to buy fans, it seems like I can buy 5 packs of Arctic fans for what it seems to cost for a single Noctua of the same size.

I don't use a lot of fans but over the past several years I've replaced most of my fans (previous fans were damn old and dying) and every 120mm and 140mm fan was replaced with an Arctic. When my son built a new system pretty much every fan in it was replaced with an Arctic as well. Neither of us has had a single problem with any of the fans and the performance is nothing to complain about. I always buy them in 5 packs and the price/performance is easily the best of anything out there.

I have no reason to go with any other fans (especially since I don't care about RBG.)

 

[sk3tch]

I don't use a lot of fans but over the past several years I've replaced most of my fans (previous fans were damn old and dying) and every 120mm and 140mm fan was replaced with an Arctic. When my son built a new system pretty much every fan in it was replaced with an Arctic as well. Neither of us has had a single problem with any of the fans and the performance is nothing to complain about. I always buy them in 5 packs and the price/performance is easily the best of anything out there.

I have no reason to go with any other fans (especially since I don't care about RBG.)

RIP

 

[Haste266]

Discovered the Arctic fans myself over a decade ago now. Still have some of those same fans running even in 92mm. I have only had to replace one of the fans because of an odd noise. My HTPC has been running 24/7 for over 8 yrs now with the same fans, lol.
I'm building a new rig and discovered they have ARCTIC P14 PWM PST. Ordered a five pack. You really can't beat the price/performance from Arctic fans.

 

[|Tch0rT|]

I bought 4 of these to put on my Arctic 240 aio with a fan hub. Gonna move the stock P12's from the aio to bottom intake. Gonna install those this weekend.