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@@FahadAli-eu8mq there's some lighting on the back, but not a lot. Depends what look you're after, these aren't for people who want the full RGB bling.

@@MakinComputers well I guess there pretty neat however I'm planning to use them in o11d evo rgb case and am not sure how the backside of the intake fans would look like on the side of the case

Hey knuckles. Sadly just too much going on in life to find time to make any new videos. My health ain't exactly great, so trying to carve a window where I have the time and my nerve damage isn't acting up or the latest health crisis doesn't need taking care of, just damn near impossible. I could probably half-ass something, but I really hate doing that. If I'm going to do it I want to to it properly and make something that I would want to watch. I do want to pick it up again once things have settled down, but I just don't know when that will be.

@@MakinComputers That's sad. 🙁 Just make sure you take your time and take of care yourself. Your health is the most important thing. Like you said, you'll come back when you're ready, hopefully swinging! Also, just another question: is there a reason why you deleted the social media accounts for your channel?

@@wiibrewlover5923 I deactivated the accounts as I used to get requests/enquiries for builds, so thought I'd turn them off while i wasn't doing anything. Needed to take PC building back as an enjoyable hobby. Done a couple of builds for friends and it's so much more relaxing when I don't have to be constantly filming and sorting all that jazz out.

@@MakinComputers Okay, that's understandable. I'm sure that getting requests for something you're taking a break from must be a nuisance for you! I don't mean to sound weird, but is there anywhere we can follow you on social media (and/or anywhere else on the Internet, for the matter) while you're taking a break(more or less)?

@@wiibrewlover5923 @andrew_makin_a_mess on Instagram, but that's mostly cats and food 😅

Yes, they'll work with anything that uses the standard 3pin 5V header

Ah thanks man, really appreciate it. Had a lot of fun making it, so glad people find enjoyment in it. The fans are really nice, but shouldn't really be a surprise as be quiet have made some of the best fans for a long time and don't get the recognition they should. I think a complete lack of effort and of content goes someway to explaining the sub count. 😅 Those pesky things "life" and "mortgage payments" demand too much of my time and what little energy I have nowadays. Wouldn't want to half-arse stuff just to get something out.

@@MakinComputers I can imagine that keeping a channel active must be hard. At the end life is all about priorities. Anyway, those 3 min are pure art. And the epicness of The Division ost fits like a glove. And it was cool...

Thanks man. Unfortunately life has demanded too much time and energy to do much else, but when I've got my new office built and sorted I might have time to do something.

What CPU cooler are you using?

@@MakinComputers dark rock pro 4

@@En3rg3t1c either 3 120 or 2 140 in front, then 1 rear 120 and roof 120 mounted as far back as possible

Thanks 🙂 Whether you're a newcomer or a seasoned pro, not every product page (even official ones) will give all the details you might want to know before forking out a load of money for it, so I like to try and cover absolutely everything I would want to know. Nothing more annoying than some new tech getting delivered only to find it's completely useless for your use case.

Do you really want to watch someone cable manage? And, while thermaltake didn't pay me to or request that I do, the rubberised sleeving on their fan cables is horrific and takes up a ton of room. If I remember correctly it was a total shit show round the back as it was only for a test to check everything was working. You probably get a shot of it in the next video where I tear it all down again.

Please explain? 6750xt is a decent card and the Rog Strix one of the top models of that line. Motherboard is a cracking board with loads of features, at the start of the competition the 12900k was one of the fastest CPU's available and only usurped by the passage of time, the water cooling kit is comprised of quality components. Maybe Hyundai parts because they're really well made, have a long warranty and will last for years.

Thanks mate. got a fire extinguisher on standby, because let's face it, i'm definitely going to set fire to my shed at some point 😅

Cheers 😃 The mod will be more impressive, of I can get it finished in time 😅

You are more than welcome. The track really made the video 💜

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Thanks mate

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All aboard the hype train! 😅

I was controlling them using the button controller you get with the silent loop 2. It's a pretty standard mode you'll get on most things that can control RGB.

Thanks 😃

Yes it will be absolutely fine. The stock pure wings 2 fans are made specifically for low volume and high airflow, but they do so at a cost of not having much static pressure. The mesh panels on the 500DX (which I reviewed for Custom PC magazine - issue 222) are a bit restrictive and do benefit from a fan with higher static pressure. Either the lightings or arctic P14's would be a good choice.

@@MakinComputers Thank you for the advice. I'll get either the Arctic P14 ARGV or the Light Wings High Speed.

Thank you 💜

I have never used them, nor seen them used in the wild to give an anecdotal comparison beyond what the spec sheets say. What the spec sheets and aggressive pitch on the alpenfohn fan blades do say is they will have more static pressure than the light wings, but at a cost of noise. Neither fan will likely require running at full tilt if there's sufficient rad area used and/or case airflow, so will likely not get to their respective peak noise levels, but there will still be a different between the 2. Depends on what you value more; outright performance or quietness. Also the frame design on the alpenfohn doesn't look like it would suit being used in pull on rads, if that's a requiremen.

The glass panels come out fairly easily, so shouldn't be too much bother. You'd just need to make a frame for the mesh and then screw/bolt it to the plastic frame.

@@MakinComputers thanks!

Thanks very much 😄

Thank you very much 😀 I would go with the high speed variant. They're better suited to being used on radiators, offer a little more headroom when things get REALLY heavy, but can be turned down super low for when there's very little load for silent running.

@@MakinComputers Good advice! Do you have any experience with Lian Li's Lian Li Galahad AIO or the Lian Li UNI FAN AL120 / SL120 fans?

@@bemindful924 No I don't have any personal experience with them. Gamers nexus rates the Galahad quite highly though. Not really much of an idea on the AL/SL fans, they're meant to be ok but not amazing or anything.

Thanks 😄

They are really good. Be quiet fans are so underrated, or at least left out of the discussion of "best fans" all too often, and I really don't know why.

After 6 monts are you still satisfied by these fans ?

I've never been one to follow other people's rules 😅 I just go by my rule that if I have fun making it, people will have fun watching it.

@@MakinComputers It's fantastic. Apparently you could make feature films.

Would take longer to come out than GTA 6 🤣

Thanks. It's actually some ambient music from The Division 2 that I'd used before for my mod reveal video

Through your motherboard software

Thanks very much. Been 18 months since I finished and this is now my main rig, but needs a bit of a clean and some TLC. Will also give me the chance to do a few things I didn't have a chance to do in the competition, and will hopefully put the update up here too.

Thank you so much 😄

Thank you 😃

Thanks very much 😃

Wicked 😊 wasn't sure about it when I'd finished doing it all, whether people would find it funny or switch off, but feedback has been pretty good. Try and have a bit of fun, not just another talking head regurgitating stats. 😅

@@MakinComputers one advice. Keep it real. I know a lot of people are trying to make it with TH-cam, either as a hobby or make a living, but too many reviewers become untrustworthy eventually due to them being bias to at least one brand. The community needs the truth when it comes to products. But it's true also that at some point you need to be sponsored as you won't be able to dig into your pocket each time you want to review something 🤷🏻‍♂️

Absolutely, nothing to worry about there. I'm the kind of guy who does a 37min review on a keyboard because it's garbage. Seriously, it's on the bit-tech TH-cam channel, as well a review on an MSI case a slate for being twice the price it should be. 😅

Be quiet are often left out of the conversation when it comes to upgrading fans, which is criminal as they've been making fantastic fans for a long time. I used an old silent wings 2 to replace a dead fan in a Corsair PSU that died and it's quieter than the PSU was new and that fan is a good 10years old 😅

@@MakinComputers unfortunately I am in a country with a very very small market and any decent products is a pain to get. For example there hasn't been any decent GPUs in any computer shops for the past 4 years locally and Ryzen has only been present in one computer shop and that was mid last year. To get the be quiet fans I have to buy them in UK and have it forwarded through MyUS to me as Overclockers dont ship to my destination. I went through the same pain with the Enermax fans and I was terribly dissapointed.

That would be terribly frustrating.

I'm sorry I don't quite get what you mean?

Things like this really get the creative juices flowing and give me a real bad itch to get into another mod, but my shed needs significant modding itself before I can 😅

Yeh the Silent Wings 3 are excellent fans. Strangely left out of "best fan" conversations all too often.

Yeh they're great on the silent loop 2. Even the standard one does a good job while being incredibly quiet, the high speed ones give you that extra bit of headroom though.

The painting on that one is immense. How the hell they do it in just 30days is beyond me. Well, most things in modding are beyond me 😂

@@MakinComputers 30 days is awesome I couldn't manage it in a year😊

I can barely get paint on a wall 🤣

I think it was a conscious choice to keep the light a bit more subdued than most. It would be too far outside their existing portfolio for them to be super bright, but they are expanding into lighting more. I was quite surprised how much lighting was in the 500DX. I do think there's more to come and we'll see fans with opaque blades and central lighting soon enough.

I don't know how that was your conclusion from this. The Silent Wings 3 that are the "stock" cooler fans on the Slinet Loop 2 are be quiets most premium high performing fans, on the same performance level as other premium fans like noctua NF-A12x25, ML120 Elites, NB Eloops etc. For them to lose 10mm diameter from the LED ring and be able to keep up with the Silent Wings and ML120 is astonishing. Bottom line: they perform excellently and are similarly priced to any other premium fan.

@@MakinComputers My conclusion is based of 1. The ring design is not really unique, and you can find really cheap ring type RGB fan 2. It’s perform just on par and slightly worse than the ML120 that come included with the AIOs. Plus, the ML fan has been on market for long time. 3. It’s their choice of going ring RGB design that makes impeller smaller, so no credit here 4. The controller is basically just a hub without personalized UI to use 5. $89.99 asking price for triple pack is simply too much. At this price point, they should have used LCP for materials and RPM stablized IC for their fan motor, to make it more value.

1: No, it's pretty widely used. Be quiet have put their own twist on it with the small opening on the back and those cheap ones won't perform anywhere near as well 2. The ML120 RGB ELITE Premium they were tested against only come on the Elite LCD AIO. They are not the same as the ML120 pros that are on most of their RGB coolers and will cost you $120 for 3. 3. How can you not give them credit for some incredible engineering? Yes it's their choice to have the ring, because it fits better with their general company aesthetics. The alternative would be to have central LEDs, use a bigger hub where you're not going to lose as much performance as he outer perimeter. They chose the difficult option and still pulled it off. 4. Yeh I agree with you on this to an extent. A better option I think would have been to have RGB and fan hub in one, so all the wires for the 3 fans could be managed together and terminated in the same place. I don't mind so much in them not having their own software, given the trouble companies with huge RGB ecosystems seem to have in getting them to work consistently, but for the fans to come without any way of getting the LEDs to work on their own is not good. Even a simple control unit similar to or the same the one that comes with silent loop 2 would have been better than nothing. 5. It's the going rate for premium fans with premium performance from a premium brand, let alone adding RGB tax onto them. Cheaper than the ML120elites too, although without the backing of iCUE. There are cheaper alternatives from cheaper brands, as there is with anything. Liquid crystal polymer is becoming more popular, but how much benefit it actually provides other than epeen is difficult to say. You'd need fans that were identical besides the makeup of the plactic and that's never going to happen. They are PWM not DC controlled. Cheaper alternatives are available, same as anything in life, but you know the saying; buy cheap, buy twice.

Yeh the paintwork on it is superb and to solder all the LEDs together is not easy either.

For the review I used a Corsair Commander Pro to control them, so I could also record the individual fan speed for the tests. You could use a PWM fan hub or fan splitter without any problems though.

I love that one too. Pure imagination.

Not at all. They will run as low as 250RPM so can be silent when at idle and will still perform very well as a case fan. Depending on your case they might even be better, as their higher static pressure can help overcome the restrictions caused by filters.

@@MakinComputers oh nice i was getting a bit worried, most of my parts are almost here for my new build :) i am using the bequiet 500dx case btw thanks for the great video and reply

@@aezrazer3020 You are more than welcome! 😃 I've just been playing with a 500DX, it's a nice case, but is a bit cramped to build in. Just make sure you take out the rear and roof fans out before attempting to install the motherboard and you'll be fine though. Once everything is in cable management is pretty easy too. Those high speed fans with their static pressure will be good for this case, as the mesh is quite fine. Depending what cooling you're using for CPU and GPU, you might need to play with the position of the case fans to get the optimum performance.

@@MakinComputers i will be using the silent loop 2 280mm for a ryzen 7 5800x. i was thinking to go 3x120mm intake at the front and 1 120mm at the rear for exhaust and the 280mm aio at the top for exhaust. Do you think this will be the optimal setup for the fans? There are 2 or 3 140mm fans preinstalled but i will be replacing those with the mentioned 120mm light wings

@@aezrazer3020 Yeh the 140mm pure wings 2 fans it comes with are ok, they're quiet at full speed and will move a fair amount of air, but struggle when they have to overcome resistance. The set up you've suggested sounds fine. There's 140mm versions of the light Wings too if you wanted to replace the silent wings 3 that come on the silent loop 2. I would run the rear fan at low speed so it doesn't interfere with the radiator fans. Sometimes I find I get better performance from a roof rad if I use the rear fan as intake as well, that will feed fresh air right to the radiator.

I ordered 2x 3-pack's now, will got them after 2 weeks 😒

@@KOT-ANGRY Argh! I hate waiting for things like that. But it can make the time when you get them more special and fun, just like Christmas 😃 Thank you. I was a little concerned about using that intro, as it's just a bit of fun, not particularly relevant, but I had fun making it so I'm glad you had fun watching it. 😄