be quiet! Light Wings RGB Fan Review - Loud Lights or Silent Style?
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- A review of the brand new be quiet! Light Wings RGB fans. Will be quiet! knock it out the park on their first attempt or will these wings flop instead of flap? This is THE the most in-depth review, with detailed performance analysis and comparison for use on air coolers, AIO liquid coolers and cases, it's a must watch before you buy.
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Man, this 3-minute long intro about LEDs was probably the most epic thing I've ever seen on computers related part of the internet :D
Thank you so much 😄
How do these compare to the alpenföhn wing boost 3
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.
You’re the first review I’ve seen to actual talk about the differences between the standard and high speed. props to you for that, you saved me a lot of trouble ordering the wrong ones
Thanks very much. I try to give people all the information that I would want to know before buying the product, things you're not necessarily going to get from spec sheets. It means the videos are a bit longer than most, but when you're spending decent amounts of money on hardware, the due diligence is worth it.
@@MakinComputers I ordered 120mm NOT High Speed, are they good? Will mount 3 to pull air from radiator in to the case (O11 Dynamic - side mounted 360mm AIO) and 3 will push air inside from button! On top i have RX6900XT with 360mm AIO blowing all that air out (GPU 3x 120mm fans spins a lot quicker thant these 6 Light Wings together), now i have Pure Wings 2 fans and they are doing excellent job!!! I want more RGB, thats reason why i ordered these Light Wings 🥺
@@KOT-ANGRY Yes they will do a good job. They are slightly less powerful than the high-speed, BUT only when you allow the high speed to run fast and get loud. You can run the standard ones at full speed and they won't get loud and they still do a really good job.
@@MakinComputers What is the case you are using can you tell us please ?
It's a be quiet Silent Base 802.
Just realized I've seen this video before after the intro rolled but I watched it again anyway... and it was cool
This is so nicely produced. In my opinion you deserve a lot more attention. Subbed.
Thank you 💜
although this is a year old, i appreciate that this is one of the few - if only videos that goes over the hub and how the lighting works. that was my biggest question as I'm not familiar with other eco systems outside of NZXT CAM. that is what is drove my interest in these as i know Be Quiet's reputation as a silent fan... now with RGB strapped to it. But no other video goes over how to change the lighting or what comes in the box and how to set it up. it's just an ordinary fan review lol
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.
I didn't find the Light Wings that interesting unlike the Arctic ARGB Fans. I think the RGB is not that "big" on the be quiet!. But, on their first try, it is decent! And yeah, RGB Fusion 2 sucks. Just use an Arduino Leonardo or something smaller and flash the Corsair Lighting Node on it. Simple as that.
It's RGB done in a very "be quiet" way. A bit more subtle than most, in keeping with their general design philosophy and designed to compliment existing products. I think if it was more "ermahgerd, ALL THE RGBS" then it would look out of place in their current line-up. While these have the build and design of what you'd expect from a premium fan, given this is classed as one of their 'essential' lines, so I expect there to be more to come.
And yeh, RGB Fusion sucks big time. If you want a single colour it's ok, but for everything else there's mastercard 😉
Breaking the youtube rules with this long intro that I didn't look away from for one second.
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 🤣
I love the regular Silent Wings 3, without rgb. They were 23 Euros each... however they gave me the silence i required
Yeh the Silent Wings 3 are excellent fans. Strangely left out of "best fan" conversations all too often.
he reviewed the fans
and it was cool
I wish i found this video earlier. I bought the 120mm high speed version and i think i will send them back for the non high speed version, the fans are silent below 70% RPM but any higher than that the motor becomes audible, it's nothing super loud but below 70% they're basically dead silent and i take that over 2-3 degree C. Worth also noting that i only tested one fan and it wasn't even inside the case, so they would definitely be a bit quieter inside the case. The non HS version seems to cool similar at lower RPM than the HS. If you want a super quiet system definitely get the low RPM version and if you want a more balanced system or headroom get the HS version.
Thanks 😃 I probably wouldn't exchange them. Like you said, the high speed at lower speeds are absolutely silent and at higher/max speeds are more audible, but no more so than any other fan of the same or higher RPM. They were quieter then the silent wings and ML120 at full speed. If you set the standard version to max and match it's noise level with the high speed, the performance will be very similar, but then the high speed has that extra headroom when it's needed and is still pretty dam quiet for a bit past what the standard version can do.
If you just set the maximum the fans can reach to be 70% then they'll stay quiet, or if they're going on a cooler, put it at maxing at 70% at 90C then go up to 100% at 100C to punch the temps down if needed, but it really shouldn't be.
If you're not going to be controlling their speed and just wanting to run them at max all the time and forget about them, then the standard would be good for that, especially for case fans. For coolers I'd want the extra headroom and potential of the high.
I wanted to do more testing and really try and find better differentiators between the 2, but the problem is my dB meter only goes down to 30, which these fans don't register at for a good part of their fan curve. I may revisit this when I have a chance and maybe do it in more constrained environment where they need to work harder.
@@MakinComputers You have a point. I got these fans for my Silent Loop 2 360mm, i might keep them and get 3 more lights wings 140mm low speed as a case fans exhaust.
Yeh the high speed are more static pressure focused, so they'd be better on the silent loop 2. With some 140s they'd shift a lot of air.
High speed RPMs are for radiators/cpu coolers, the low speed RPMs for cases (less resistance). I would stick with the HS version for your AIO. Just tweak your fan curves.
@@GregorMima Whilst that's true, there's nothing to say you can't use both for either scenario. The standard ones performed a lot better than I thought they would on the tower cooler and especially the AIO, being super quiet to boot. If you wanted fans that you could just leave at 100% all day everyday and not worry about noise, then the standard ones would be a good choice.
Are this fans compatible with Aura sync?
Yes, they'll work with anything that uses the standard 3pin 5V header
Intr , very funny
Hello, I have a pure base 500 dx case, I planned to put LIGHT WINGS fans, the question is where and what to put, I mean 120-140mm with what speed, since I don’t understand well, put 3 on the front panel 1 on the back and 2 on top or 1 on top please advise
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
I love that ring design. Miss my cold cathodes 🤣
I'm sure i can get you some when I refresh the system 😉
Considering these for my Corsair 4000D case to bring a bit of light to the front.
I really like how they look from the outside, I'm sure they'd look great in that case.
Strange, I do not have such a mode as at 11:42
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.
I love the light wings my only problem with my build is that my AIO is set up on pull so the small light rings on the back makes no sense to me and wished they were bigger. I hope the new generations in the future will be better.
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.
hey i have problem i think. i bought the high speed ones for my case but just found out that they are more for radiators because of higher static pressure and less airflow. Is this a problem?
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 bought a set of these online and later that day I started seeing the thumbnail. I clicked after seeing it a few times and man, that into blew me away!
Good work. I had to subscribe and see what else you come up with.
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.
First again:)
Nice... I actually bought the 140 for my future build on my channel. I like you style of video. Very aspiring
Thanks 😄 You sir just earned yourself a subscriber 👍
Best intro
Thanks 😃
SUPER intro, i subscribed because of this historical intro ❤
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. 😄
Hello good Sir! This video was extremely helpful. A question though. For my next built I'm planning to use the same Silent Loop 2 360 in a Lian Li Dynamic EVO and want to replace these stock fans with either the normal PWM or the High Speed Light Wings. What would you recommend for a 12700 non-K? The aim is silent triple A gaming on ultrawide 1440.
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.
Hello. I'm going to buy a Pure Base 500DX (i7-12700K but no overclock, RTX 3070 MSI Suprim X, Noctua NH-D15S cromax. black + 120mm fan). In your opinion, is it okay to replace the three Pure Wings 2 fans of the case with Light Wings 140mm fans instead (normal speed or High Speed, considering the dust filter), or with Arctic P14 PWM ARGB ?
Is it enough to keep the temperature under control?
Regarding the substitution of the Pure Wings 2 with the Light Wings, the Be Quiet assistance service mentions:
"The cooling performance when replacing a fan, however, may differ.
The specially designed Pure Wings in special sizes were developed for maximum performance as well as the lowest possible operating noise. These values may differ with Light Wings. To achieve a similar volume and performance on these coolers with Light Wings, the fan curve in the PC system must be adjusted manually."
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.
Maybe the premium line could be where the centered leds come in 🤷🏻♂️
Rings look ok but.. from the middle better to my eyes.
I quite like the on the outside of the case through the mesh. For inside the case I'd probably prefer centred LEDs, but there's always strips if you want more light.
@@MakinComputers ring outside and led inside for high end? 🤣
@@currentlykent4593 reflective surface on the top side of the blades maybe?
@@MakinComputers wondering if replies like this help… anyway. Just a white option yeah? Someday I’m sure.
No idea. Can but try 😅 I did think a white option would have been a good idea. White RGB fans help scatter the light a bit more and they've done white shadow wings fans, so it's not out of the question.
Channel coming along nicely. Great content.
Thanks very much 😄
How good are they against QL120's i think this will be mor quiet and better airflow let me know
I don't have any of the QL120s to test, but going off the spec sheets, the standard light Wings have similar if no slightly better airflow, with 6dB less noise. At full speed the standard light Wings are incredibly quiet, even with three on a rad.
The reason behind you having less than 250 subs goes beyond my reach. Dude... that intro. Superb. Subbed.
PS. I'm getting these fans.
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...
finally some color in be quite family..
The colours on them are really good. Nice and deep, not washed out like some are.
which sofware is the rgb compatible with ?
It's standard 3-pin 5v ARGB, so any software that can use that header. Either through your motherboard, some GPUs have an ARGB header for syncing and a ton of controllers. The fans are "dumb", in that the LEDs will not turn on until they receive a signal, so they won't interfere with the controller/software like some will, more like an ARGB led strip that happens to be in a really good fan.
@@MakinComputers thx
omg i remember the monitor
Our first "monitor" was a Hitachi TV that had a button to switch between 50 and 60hz.
Hi! Can u tell me if u have used a pwm hub on your case to connect the fans?
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 can't explain how much I love these Lightwings. Sexy and quiet. Works well with my Asus Strix Motherboard with its Asus Sync. I was going to go with the Lian Li fans due to less wires and it being my 1st build. Wasn't hard to install at all, even with a beginner like me.
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 ?
This intro..just sound amazing. congrats
Thanks. It's actually some ambient music from The Division 2 that I'd used before for my mod reveal video
120mm for the silent loop 2 360mm ? ty
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.
problem with these fans is that they aren't good for cases like o11d evo rgb where they need to be mounted on the side of the case as intake fans. The RGB won't be facing inside of the case.
@@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
Just bought 6 of those and the 3-pack HS was actually cheaper than the 3-pack NON-HS. Never owned any be quiet fans and never handled one but all the reviews and images shows that they are great quality products. I am replacing my practically new Enermax fans which, believe me, are not of a good quality finish wise. Looks great online but looks actually flimsy in real.
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.
How do you control the RGB on the fans?
Through your motherboard software
The intro is the best thing ever! Love it.
Thanks very much 😄
Wow! Best review of these fans! 👍
Thanks 😄
The Fan is a beauty.
They certainly are.
Nice review!
Thank you 😃
Great review!
Thank you very much 😃
Great vid man!
Thanks very much 😃
Loved the intro to this video btw lol
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. 😅
Bottom line: over priced, and not even perform better than the stock cooler fans. Not a good start for be quiet bling fans.
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.
Ahh the Lian Li ATi PC-P80R. I had one of those. Beast of a case.
I really wanted one, then my brother's mate brought one round for a LAN party... 😳 Was huge! I had no idea the scale of the thing. 😅 Stuck with wimpy little thermaltake soprano for an age. Well, i didn't upgrade or change anything till the EPS output on the PSU died and took the mobo with it.