Review on 🔵 CORSAIR AF120 Blue LED Low Noise Cooling Fan - Single Pack CO-9050081-WW by Napoleon Robbie

Too bad these fans look so good as they are unbearably loud. I think in 2011 they might be considered silent fans but in 2021 they are the noisiest fans I have ever owned. With the stock fans that came with my Fractal Meshify case, my computer was barely audible under full load. After replacing these fans, you can hear the computer running from across the room. It's not worth it. UPDATE: After much fiddling, I figured out how to make the noise from these fans more bearable. If you haven't already done so, set the fan curve to "Mute" in the BIOS. Since it's a 3-pin non-PWM DC fan, you don't have as much control over it. My motherboard has the minimum fan speed set to 60%, forcing the fans to speed up to 100% when your CPU temp is > 75C. For many modern processors, especially Ryzen, 80-90°C is normal, which is why these fans, as reported here, get REALLY noisy as they run at 90-100% speed quite often. A simple solution to further reduce the noise is to go into the BIOS and change the fan speeds based on the motherboard temperature and not the CPU. Since the motherboard temperature rarely exceeds 40°C, these fans run much slower, which significantly reduces noise. Of course, make sure you have enough cooling.