Corsair ML120 Pro LED, Red, 120mm Premium Magnetic Levitation Cooling Fan,CO-9050042-WW

I have shared a couple of reviews already for the ML 120 Pro LED in the White color, and they were positive reviews. I purchased these fans to replace some standard albeit quiet stock case fans in a Fractal R6 Define case for better airflow and a nice look with the Red LED lighting. I am also using one of these to replace a stock Noctua fan on an NH-12S CPU cooler I recently purchased. The Noctua fans are very high quality, but I think they look awful. The ML 120 fans can make some noise at 2000 rpm, but they will also move some air. I run them at around 1500 rpm usually, for a nice mix of airflow and noise, with the reserve high capacity rpm when needed for heavy computer workloads.

I already had some high CFM cooling fans which I have been using for nearly 8 years. I thought it was time for a change but it is difficult trying to shop for high CFM fans (>70 CFM). These days many fans in the market are more lighting oriented with most only rated around 50 CFM. Lets face it, these fans are meant for cooling, the very least they ought to do is push enough air to cool the components. Fancy lightings do not contribute to any cooling abilities.Fortunately, Corsair has these 70+ CFM fans which I was looking to replace. I bought a pair of these 120mm red LED fans along with another 4 of the non LED ones. They are hooked up to the Commander Pro for all the fan curve settings.The products arrived in good order. The build of the fans are expected of Corsair's quality. They are as powerful as those I replaced but way quieter. During gaming, I can just vaguely hear the fans working even at top speed. This same rig that I am running no longer feels as if I am sitting next to an oven which sounded like a jet plane ready to take off. These fans are like mere 20-30% of what my old ones sounded at top speed yet consumeing less power.Coming from a tropical environment with average indoor temperature of 30 deg C (CPU and GPU idle at 39C), the fans are left idling up to 40C, 60% by 45C, 80% by 50C and 100% by 55C.I am a happy customer and I would recommend these fans to those who are looking for something that actually works instead of merely fancy looks.

I have a Ryzen 5 3600x and RTX 2060 in a Cooler Master Box Lite 5 (which is notorious for having a front panel with terrible air flow), and even before with weaker parts I had overheating issues, so you can only imagine how more powerful parts were affecting it. I was getting to 83 degrees Celsius for both CPU and GPU, so I slapped this bad boy on the back to replace an old Apevia that came with the case and my stars, I was not dissapointed. While a little loud, the air being pulled out of this bad boy is phenomenal, and I can literally feel the difference in the case temperature (even at light loads, it feels cold!). Checked this out in the temp. monitors on MSI Afterburner too, and my GPU after heavy loads for several hours (Ultra settings games while streaming) sits at a pretty 60-65 degrees celsius, while my CPU generally sits around the same, while topping 70 on the occasional spike. This is at least a 10 degree cooling alone, just from one fan. The fan sound itself isn't even that bad, and you can't even hear it anyways if you use headphones like I do. All in all, a beast of a fan that you won't dissapointed in, I plan to buy 2 more.UPDATE: Been so impressed by having one fan on the exhaust, that I’ve been looking to replace my front 3 case fans as well with this, which is difficult cause it’s either terribly overpriced or out of stock due to their popularity. However Amazon just listed these beauties on sale again, so I went ahead and ordered 3 more for my intake fans, will update with results.

The lighting on these are solid but don't expect them to light up the case. Airflow is as expected but the noise these things put out is nuts. Even utilizing the PMW interface and enabling PMW mode in the BIOS, their mid-speed (50% fan speed) is definitely audible if your tower is on your desk (full speed is audible from three rooms away). Now, this may be an issue with my MOBO manufacturer's software (MSI Dragon Center), so take that with a grain of salt. I ended up just setting them to "silent" in the BIOS and they really are silent (though lack great airflow now). Overall they look great and, once I configured them, they ran quietly. At around $30 per fan, I just expected a little more from a brand I trust with all my components.

After reading great reviews on this, I decided to give it a try on my new gaming rig. These are definitely quieter than other 120mm fans, especially when you them connected with 4 pins. The PWM mode drops the fan RPM between 400-500 when cooling isn't needed! That keeps the sound low. They will ramp up to 2400RPM if needed. The red lights look pretty cool as well. I have installed 2 of these on Corsair H100i v2 radiator and they work well.If you do not have screws/threads on the computer case, you can use the screws provided and it will "self tap" into the red corner plastic piece. They secure the fan quite well. However, if you unscrew them after they are self tapped and rescrew them, you might see some small plastic bits coming out of the threads. Just clean those out. You don't want small pieces flying around in your case.I would have preferred if the fans were white rather than clear/whiteish. The red color might have displayed a bit more vividly like the SP120 RGBs. But not a big deal. Awesome fans but pricey!

These are quiet, yet very powerful, and offer a great combination of airflow and static pressure. And then you have the great aesthetics...while most LED fans cast their light from the outside, these LEDs are the opposite, and provide a very cool and uniform glow across the fan blades. The housing also looks great, the build quality is excellent, and the cable length is generous for easy routing to the rear of the case. These are worth the price premium over lesser fans.