Well the thing is that I absolutely love their tone or lack thereof but the 120mm mounting instead of 140mm made me have to kind of ghetto rig them in my case. I want to know if the XP is of the same or higher quality than the HP because then I could just mount them normally instead of how I have th...

i know this is a 1-year old thread, but the successor to the PH-F140HP is now out. It is called the PH-F140HP II I just bought two of these fans and am extremely pleased with them so far. Essentially inaudible and they do at 450 RPM what my SP120's did at 800~. The 120 mounts are kind of annoying s...

Hm, that's interesting. They seem to live up to the hype that I had for them, didn't know if the XP's could possibly be better. Do you have any recommendations for fans that I should use?

quest_for_silence wrote:As far as I recall, SPCR didn't tested the specific PH-F140HP II in any article.

Yes they did, back in 2013 I believe, although that was under the name PH-F140HP/TS. I contacted Phanteks themselves and they confirmed that it is the same fan, just with a PWM connector.

Yeah, I saw that thread as well, but I am more concerned with the sound of the fans rather than the performance of them. Was hoping to find someone with first hand experience with both probably a long shot though.

I have searched long and hard through the forums here and online and have not found a definitive answer. Is there any clear advantage to one of these fans over the other? I bought some PH-F140HP II's after reading about their stellar acoustics in an article on this website. I just want to make sure ...