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all right just scallywag so I recently said I was thinking about doing a cheap RGB fan roundup video until I stumbled across these guys these are the PC cooler Corona RGB fans got our own ass no relation to the Mexican Alcoholic Beverage but these fans look so good on paper I figured there was no point in doing a roundup video if these were just gonna blow away the competition pun intended I still got it so before making said roundup video I decided to pull the trigger on these and test them out myself and I gotta say these are the best budget RGB fans on the market hands-down nothing has ever come close or ever will come close and I definitely won't regret saying those words one day okay maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit but these are seriously great fans so today I'm going to tell you all about them and why exactly I think they're so cool pun again oh my god it must be so great being you watching me I'm jealous so that's what's on the agenda today let's start by talking about the 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bit weight to 500 500 there's absolutely nothing to lose so in the words of Shia LaBeouf just do it and then the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger do it now let's talk about the fan this is the box there's stuff on the box these are 120 millimeter PWM fans they come in a kit of three for 36 US dollars making them twelve bucks a piece that is how you map ladies and gentlemen that's why they used to call me Rain Man the carry a max airflow of fifty four point five one CFM a max fan speed of eighteen rpm and they're using hydraulic bearings which promotes longer lifespan and better overall performance the first thing I noticed when I took these out of the box was just how high-quality they look and feel these don't look like $12 RGB fans they look like they could be in the 15 to 20 maybe even the $25 range the plastic housing is super solid there's no flex to the fan whatsoever however you can probably tell that they're on the cheap side based on the side of the fan just on how it looks the plastic molding isn't quite as premium looking as say you know your invest in class not too of course air fans for example still I would say they look far from bad and still much better looking than other fans in its price range each fan has nine blades that have the sort of stripe design underneath them and it looks very similar to like a be quiet case fan if you guys knew what I'm talking about there that's the immediate first thought that I had and if I remember correctly be quiet uses that design in order to maximize airflow while keeping noise to a minimum both sides of the fan have rubber pads on all the corners to reduce operating noise and vibration and the lighting on the fan itself is actually sort of a ring lighting kind of like the thermaltake ring fans that we're familiar with but these rings are a little skinnier they're definitely on the thin side which isn't a bad thing necessarily as long as the lighting looks good and you can see it's not a complete ring either but rather it's broken at four points along the fan in each of the corners just to give it more of a stylized appearance which i think looks pretty good now one aesthetic choice that I could see raising some eyebrows here because it did so for me are the corners of the fan they kind of have this unique concave hollow design that I can see not everyone being into I really didn't like them in pictures and even in person that took a while for them to grow on me but eventually I came around and became a fan we have two cables coming off of each fan both of which are sleeved in black which is very much appreciated we had a four pin pwm connection this is fantastic a lot of RGB fans in the 30 to 40 dollar price range do not have four pin PWM connections rather they have some proprietary plug that goes into a proprietary included fan controller or hub that if the hub dies you can't plug it into a motherboard for example whereas this you can the other cable terminates to a three pin connector for RGB goodness and this is where we can get into accessories so included is an adapter that you connect your fans to and that adapter terminates to a 5 volt 3 pin addressable RGB connector that you can connect to your motherboard assuming it has the header or you can plug it into the included RGB controller that has mode speed and color selection unfortunately it is molex power which is the worst possible thing I have ever seen in my life I'm probably being dramatic but it's not as good as say that most people already have a few free SATA ports in their system so requiring molex just forces some users to have to dig up a molex cable plug it into their system is it's a pain in the ass you suck molex you suck finally you also get a vdg adapter so you can plug this into a gigabyte board that supports BBG headers because they're weird and there's a 3-way 4 pin PWM splitter so you can plug all three fans into a single motherboard header if you want now let's start talking about performance I actually tested these fans inside of a system that I had very recently built for a case review actually it was for the fractal design to find us to vision RGB case which you should check that review out if you haven't yet but the rig I built in that video is the one I'm using for all of today's testing and that system features a rising 7 1700 yes I know I'm so old school that's overclocked to 4 gigahertz on all eight of its core so we have a fixed frequency that doesn't fluctuate or give any variance in our testing cooling our CPU is the asus rog region 360 millimetre liquid AO featuring three of those fancy Noctua nff 12 IPPC 120 millimeter fans it's also worth noting that i mounted the radiator at the top the motherboard is the asus rog crosshair 7 and that's being paired with 16 gigs of g.skill Trident z RGB ddr4 3200 speed along with an asus rog Strix r-tx 2080 bear in mind while the CPU is overclocked or GPU is running fully stocked for all today's tests and oh yeah we should also talk about the fans that's important in a fan video so there's the 3 Noctua fans that are being set to exhaust at the top of the case is part of the AO and then we have for the prism of fans from fractal design that came included with the vision of the s2 vision case so we've got 4 140 millimeter Prisma fans at the front and then one more at the back for exhaust all those fans are connected to the Nexus fan hub that came included with the s2 vision K stand that's what we'll be connecting or Corona fans to as well for today's tests now I ran 2 major tests here one for airflow and one for static pressure so I tested these both as case fans and radiator fans just to see how well-rounded they are for the airflow test I benchmarked these fans against the 3 Prisma fans that are at the front of the case so I actually did a 10-minute run of GTA 5 at 2560 by 1440 max settings across the board with the prism of fans initially and then I swapped them out for the Coronas and ran the exact same test before checking our CPU and GPU temps what I found was I don't have those numbers pulled up let me just double check sorry okay so with our Prisma fans our arisin 7 1700 got up to 59 point eight degrees Celsius and the corona RGB fans resulted in a maximum CPU temperature of 60 degrees C so more or less identical that's 0.2 degrees certainly within margin of error the RT X 2080 got up to 58 C under the cool breeze of the freckled prism of fans and we hit a maximum 59 see with the Coronas so again extremely close results here very impressive when you consider that the Prisma fans are 140 millimeters as opposed to 120 on the Coronas the next logical question is how loud did these fans get compared to the prism --is under low now's your chance to flex those big beautiful ears of yours with a sound test imperceptible is a word that I would use to describe the difference in sound that these fans delivered compared to the prisoners I really could not tell a difference whether I was gaming or listening to the test that you just heard in the second benchmark I tested for static pressure where I pitted these fans up against the big boy not to us on our asus rog ryojun 360 AIO and what I found was holy moly same temperatures again this is again after the same 10-minute run in GTA 5 at all the same settings sixty point nine degrees C for our NOC Tua's vs. 61 C with the Coronas this was truly surprising because these are first and foremost advertised as case fans although on their product page I do believe they say that they can be used for static pressure optimized environments as well but a lot of case manufacturers say that it doesn't mean it's necessarily true or that the fans work well in those environments so I was very surprised to see that these are competing performance wise or thermal wise I should say with much more expensive not to us that being said there is still the noise factors so let's take a listen to our second sound test I don't know how well you could hear but I could definitely tell if the Noctua fans were noticeably quieter than our fan of the hour I could even see the difference in volume level between the two fans using the decibel meter in Adobe Premiere Pro having said that these fans are still super quiet in practice I mean it literally took me wearing really nice headphones with a thousand-dollar microphone position six inches away from the fans in order to hear the difference between these and the nock to us I mean I'm not sure what else to say here because the benchmarks really speak for themselves in the fact that these are performing on par thermally wise with other fans from well-known brands that are much more costly they've also proven themselves to be acoustically sound so you're not just getting cool but quiet operation as well after seeing the raw performance of these fans I honestly could care less about the RGV but sure enough the RGB is impressive too I mean very rich bright vibrant colors they all transition smoothly no hot spots whatsoever for the record I did test it out with both be included controller and with Asus or a sync plugged in directly to the crosshair seven motherboard and everything worked without a hitch I think that's all I have to say at the same time I cannot say enough about these fans and how impressed they've left me so guys if you want a link I'll put it down below if you want to find out more at 36 bucks 12 bucks a pop unbeatable speaking of unbeatable if you think that these fans can be beat by another budget RGB fan option in the 30 to $40 price range leave the name down below in the comments and maybe we'll have a duel we'll have a full-on bloodbath okay this thing has nine blades it will cut you guys thank you for watching this video toss a look on it before you go if you enjoyed it and get subscribed for the little bit thank you guys for watching have a good one and I'll see y'all in the next video baby