Prolimatech Ultra Sleek Vortex 12 & 14
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 4:25 pm
This is not really a review, as i didn't have much time to play with the fans yet, was more a initial testing in Asus and MSI motherboards in their respective fancontrols to check what will be the outcome of moving into the FT05 in terms of back (top) case fan and the CPU fans. Personally i wanted to test this fans, as some videos on youtube aim to show that this have better pressure than the usual pwm fans that i use like Thermalrigth TY147 and Noctua NF-A14 / A15 PWM, but still a lot more testing has to be done once i rebuild, either way this are just some test that i ran on the Prolimatech Ultra Sleek Vortex 12 and 14.
The fans were first ran on an Asus Maximus VI Gene, with FanXpert2, all the fans were ran on the CPU_FAN header (real pwm header), the sample 2 has higher idle rpms, but this is more like bug on FanXpert2, the range of operation and starting is the same for all 3 (or really close), this is more fanXpert2 conpensating for low rpms, but on the MSI i tested all 3 and all had very similar rpms under the same % pwm signal.
These are the same fans ran on an MSI Z87-GD65 on the CPU_FAN2 (real pwm header), controlled by the bios mainly, was just to establish the lowest settings that the fans can run. Personally i like more pure bios as no extra software is loaded and remains independent to the OS,
Both motherboards work fine controlling the Prolimatech PWM fans, at the lowest settings displayed above, they were inaudible to me, but they were also not behind a mesh/filter/heatsink, so this part will be done later on. Above 750rpms they start becoming noticeable, still a low end wosh, and above 1000rpms they are loud, i have no way to say how much db, so take my comments with a grain of salt as its mostly subjective and i have no super quiet chamber like SPCR. About the bearings, i personally couldn't hear much bearing noise even though they are real ball bearing fans, once i build will update either here or on the build into how it really perform behind a heatsink and as case fans.
PS @Quest, you were right, the Vortex 14 drop to 360rpms =)
The fans were first ran on an Asus Maximus VI Gene, with FanXpert2, all the fans were ran on the CPU_FAN header (real pwm header), the sample 2 has higher idle rpms, but this is more like bug on FanXpert2, the range of operation and starting is the same for all 3 (or really close), this is more fanXpert2 conpensating for low rpms, but on the MSI i tested all 3 and all had very similar rpms under the same % pwm signal.
These are the same fans ran on an MSI Z87-GD65 on the CPU_FAN2 (real pwm header), controlled by the bios mainly, was just to establish the lowest settings that the fans can run. Personally i like more pure bios as no extra software is loaded and remains independent to the OS,
Both motherboards work fine controlling the Prolimatech PWM fans, at the lowest settings displayed above, they were inaudible to me, but they were also not behind a mesh/filter/heatsink, so this part will be done later on. Above 750rpms they start becoming noticeable, still a low end wosh, and above 1000rpms they are loud, i have no way to say how much db, so take my comments with a grain of salt as its mostly subjective and i have no super quiet chamber like SPCR. About the bearings, i personally couldn't hear much bearing noise even though they are real ball bearing fans, once i build will update either here or on the build into how it really perform behind a heatsink and as case fans.
PS @Quest, you were right, the Vortex 14 drop to 360rpms =)