ARCTIC P12 Slim PWM PST (3 Pack) - PC Fan, 120mm Fan, Pressure-optimised

From a sheer performance perspective, and I'm talking pushing the most air through your case or into a heatsink, and doing so quietly, these fans are tough to beat. Considering they're only 15mm thick, I put them into my own best-of-class category. But while they do work great, they are on the flimsy side. I'll give you an example. After looking up the stats and reading some reviews, I decided to replace a competitor fan (name begins with 'Noc') with the P12 Slim in a sub-5 liter mini-itx case. I found the P12 to have slightly better performance by 2-3 degrees C in my case overall, with the noise the same as the Noc, at less than half the price. Only, when I first closed the case, the P12 wobbled at slow speeds, making an obvious noise along with it at startup and shutdown. This lasted for about 3 startups/shutdowns and just went away. I checked cables and all were clear, so it had to be coming from the fan. Considering its the same size as the other fan, which had no weird noise issues, I just felt the word flimsy came to mind. Maybe it twisted slightly to fit or something? I couldn't tell by looking. I'm not going to take a star off for this, but just be aware. I would have returned it if things didn't settle down. But it did, and it's been great, and mostly quiet, as the primary cooling fan for a Ryzen 9 7945HS. I'm not undervolting, and yet my temps are stable and well under 80C in normal use with temporary spikes up to 88C max. For the performance and value for the money, this is one of the best fans on the market at the 15mm height size.

These fans are surprisingly nice! Their 15mm thickness means they fit well in smaller cases, they were perfect for my Cooler Master Qube 540 build. They're very quiet, nearly silent at low speeds and still quiet at full speed. No humming, ringing, whining, etc. The airflow is pretty good for their small size, and they keep my PC nice and cool. They also don't draw much current, which means you can safely connect multiple fans to a single fan header using a splitter cable.

I installed these two slim fans in the GPU bay of my Fractal Design Node 202 mini-ITX case to help cool an RTX 4070. They immediately dropped GPU temperatures by at least 10 degrees C under load, while also reducing overall noise because the noisy GPU fans no longer need to spin up as high. The cable length is generous and works well for the Node 202, and since these fans can be daisy chained, I didn't need any additional adapters to plug the fans into a single fan header on my motherboard. I went with these Arctic fans over Noctua, because they're nearly half the price and still very quiet. Overall, I'm very happy with them.

Worked well after setup and is quiet enough. The price was better than others.

These fans complete my PC AIO push and pull setup. I needed a 120mm fan that was half the size of a standard 120mm 25mm fan because the radiator in my desktop case has a tight corner that a standard fan can't fit. It great quality for being half the size it keeps up with the airflow. No RGB lights but I didn't need more RGB fans.

I ordered these because the slim Noctua version were on back order, they are quiet and move plenty of air. They fit perfect on the bottom of my Cooler Master NR200P MAX case.

I used 2 of these for a deshroud mod of a msi 6700xt mech 2 that was getting way to hot with tj temps hitting 110 emedietly under any load, I also repasted the core and put new thermal pads on everywhere, I also needed a set of gpu pwm fan header to 4pin fan header adapter, now I'm not directly put hate on the 6700xt this heat issue was entirely my fault I had put this already hot running card into the wierd mounting position of an h1 v1 Rev1.0(I replaced the fire starter pcie risser and destroyed the old one so no worrys) and that case had the gpu verticle long ways with the gpu io down so the whole heat threw the channel design of most high end gpus with "heat to the back to the io" simply is turned on its head in this case BUT these slim fans fit perfectly and altho i do still get high junction temps these fans can spin at full speed and there whisper quiet unlike the ones from msi which were the only things I could hear in the entire home office...unexceptable...but these bairly fit into the space between the mesh filter and the deshrouded heatsink of my gpu and they don't make any noise at all and they do infact keep the regular temps down a bit so that's a double win in my book, I can sustain full load on the gpu without throttling so that's a successfull deshroud mod in my opinion and for the cost..ya I like this build now with its 128gb of ddr4 4000mhz and 5800x3d it has evolved to be a very nice linux dev and gaming system for me...

Works great. I had enough cable to reach the fan connection on the motherboard.

Fait bien le job.

Cheap and works perfectly

top. everything works as described

Excellent

En muchas ocasiones las personas ahorran mucho tiempo para comprar su PC (yo siempre recomiendo a mis clientes gastar más en GPU y CPU) por lo que muchas veces terminan comprando gabinetes pequeños sin salida de aire... pero créeme que estos ventiladores son UNA JOYA para solucionar eso. TAMAÑO: Para empezar es un pack de 3 y al ser SLIM (marco más delgado que el normal) va a entrar en casi cualquier gabinete... yo los instalé en mi 2da PC destinada al stream, es un gabinetes Yeyian Haizen 2500, el cual ya trae 3 ventiladores pre instalados (nada malos por cierto) te darás cuenta que hice un mix, puse un artic atrás, uno arriba y al frente los cambié por un yeyian para ese ponerlo arriba. Entonces por espacio no te preocupas. CONECTIVIDAD: NO NECESITAS CONTROLADOR... en el nombre si pones atención dice "PST" (PWM Sharing Technology) significa que todos se pueden conectar en cadena (Daisy chain) a un solo puerto de tu motherboard. Cada ventilador tiene un cable con una conexión en "Y", esto es para que la primera cabeza vaya a algún puerto "CHA_FAN" de tu motherboard y a la otra le conectas otro ventilador y así sucesivamente como te lo pongo en la imagen. La verdad que esto esto se los recomiendo a mis clientes con motherboards con pocos puertos "CHA_FAN" porque solo te toma un puerto para conectar 3 ventiladores. Consejo: es mejor conectar todo directo a la motherboard para controlar las rpm o su curva de ventilación desde la BIOS y así optimizas recursos para no abrir más programas. CONTROL: Pero si no le sabes a la BIOS puedes visitar mi canal de youtube "El Macmado" o cualquier red social con mi nombre y preguntarme por mensaje. O dependiendo de tu motherboard tendrás un programa para controlarlos, la mía que es ASUS usa el "Ai Suite 3" solo entras, buscas la opción de "Fan Xpert2+" y le das en "Ajuste de ventiladores" para que te los reconozca y te haga una prueba (como la de pantalla) cuando termine ya puedes poner rpm's fijas o hacer tus curvas de ventilaciones personalizadas. RUIDO: El ruido que haces es increíblemente bajo, hace más ruido el ventilador del procesador (porque gira a más de 3000rpm y los artic máximo a 2050) por lo que puedes hacer la prueba para que te des una idea del ruido. Además tienes un muy buen flujo de aire y presión estática por lo que avientan bastante aire de frente y mueven bastante aire. TEMPERATURAS: Antes tenía mi gabinete sin panel y mi CPU (i5 11400F) iba a 60 grados y mi GPU (EVGA 1660 ti) a 45 sin hacer nada. Con estos ventiladores y panel cerrado voy a 48 en el CPU y 32 en la GPU. Te dejo una imagen para mostrarte todos los programas, la carga y las temps de mi PC de streams. CPU a máximo 65 grados y GPU a 43 máximo, con toda la carga de mis programas. Los programas que uso son: - OBS Studio (con previsualización normal para twitch y vertical para TikTok). - Streamerbot - Discord - Lumiastream - GoXLR Utility - Spotify o TIDAL - Songify (para que añadan canciones mis espectadores - Snap Camera - MSI afterburner - entre otras Entonces resumiendo... ¿Valen la pena? SIN DUDA ALGUNA, los he puesto en 4 pcs y en todas me redujeron bastante las temperaturas. Si tienes duda mándame mensaje a cualquiera de mis redes: Elmacmado. Saludos