Thermaltake CL F083 PL20SW A Review

omg rgb unicorn puke set to 11 o ya! so many ways to color match them that you basically have a front ring, a back ring and a center for custom colors and patterns. Super bright and super quiet compared to most fans when running high airflow too. Programming isn't difficult, but it does take practice. The downside is that you need to connect to a controller to run them. Each box can drive up to 5 fans, but you need to order additional fans. They only sell 3 fan kits in 120 or 140, so if you…

I bought 2 packs (6 fans) for my O11 dynamic build and am very happy with the design of these fans and the hub. The fans themselves only have 1 braided cable each, making cable routing very easy and clean. The fans and hub feel solid and of good quality, surpassed only by the Corsair LL IMO series. The reason I bought these particular fans is because I needed something that looked good as an exhaust option. Almost all other major manufacturers design their fans to look good from the front, not…

I attached a video showing the only setup they will do. I even bought another controller (from Thermaltake, made for them) and the same result. I spent hours trying to get it to work because I thought I was doing something wrong. I even emailed their support back and forth for over a week (it takes them 48-72 hours to reply each time) and they kept telling me I was an unsupported motherboard. Then why didn't the controller work? And it's an ASUS Rog Strix motherboard with full Aura Sync…

Don't get me wrong these are some of the nicest fans money can buy. They have more LEDs than any other fan except for the quad version from the same brand. However, that doesn't mean they aren't overpriced. In fact, I almost miss my old Thermaltake Premium fans. The rings on it are so bright you can hardly tell the fan itself is on, and the lighting on the blades is actually one of the prettiest parts (I've included a photo of old fans for comparison). Even if you darken the rings, the blades…

I was NEVER a fan of RGB. I think it's a ploy that gives these companies an excuse to charge us 30% more for an item because it has colored lights. I'm a PC gamer, so when I'm using my computer, I kind of look at the game rather than the shiny, colorful keyboard, mouse, mousepad, fans, and case lights. Of course, when I step back and look at my setup, the colors look cool. But I built a gaming PC to play, not watch. That being said, I bought a nice display case and made a black and white theme.

These fans don't use normal fan pins for control. They use Thermaltake brand pins. So you can't connect it to your motherboard and your motherboard can't drive PWM properly. Yes, the Thermaltake module plugs into the motherboard, but the only way to control the fans is to download Thermaltake's TT RGB plus software. The software does not allow temperature-dependent control of the fan curves. So it's either fully automatic, or you statically control the amount of PWM by maintaining fan speed and