be quiet! Silent Wings Pro 4 120mm Fan Review

Epilogue

The be quiet! Silent Wings Pro 4 120mm is primarily for applications requiring increased static pressure, like in cooling solutions. It doesn’t have low airflow but is still not so competitive in this section. Nonetheless, I want to note that be quiet! provides accurate airflow in this product’s marketing specs, which is something noteworthy since, in most products, the differences between advertised and actual performance are high. The absence of a daisy-chain option can be a headache, and the fan’s high price doesn’t help since the Phanteks T30-120, the best-performing fan in this category, costs about the same. Indeed, this product has top-build quality, it uses a fantastic bearing according to the official specs, it will last for 300,000 hours (!), and the bundle is rich. Still, a 31-dollar price tag is high, bringing it to the same level as the Phanteks T30-120, which achieves way higher performance in all tests.

At 30 dBA normalized noise output, which I consider the most important for all fan reviews, since inside a chassis, this noise output can be reduced to 20-25 dBA, the highest performance 120mm fans are the Phanteks T30-120, the Thermaltake Toughfan 12 Pro and XPG Nidec Vento Pro 120 in terms of airflow and static pressure. At the same noise output (30 dBA), the Silent Wings Pro 4 120mm is very low in airflow, achieving sixth place in static pressure, close to 2 mmAq, while the T30-120 is at 2.82 mmAq. Given that both fans have the same price, the choice is obvious.

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