Corsair CO-9050039-WW ML Series ML120 120 mm Low Noise High Pressure Premium Magnetic Levitation Fan - Black/Grey (Pack of 2)

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same case come with a core just depends on witch one. looks like there an pwm hub only no lighting that can also come with the case. I had both fans and Noctua is making noise at low rpms (little rattling noise, annoying), had two and both did (disappearing when around 1000rpm, which was not good for me).

Since there’s no one way to install a fan as each system has its own unique airflow setup, we’ll be giving you an overview that’ll help you understand how the setup should be while explaining the accessories attached to the fans. – Fan Connectors I used to get annoyed when people posted things like that, now I just laugh. The pearl is all intake, all the heat from the radiators dumped inside the case.

Overall, I’m pleased with the animation smoothness and color saturation that the ML120s produce. The fans don’t have any trouble with tough “in-between” colors like oranges, and they can even produce a convincing white in a pinch. The LL120 is the best fan for those who are looking for premium cooling performance and excellent RGB effects without sacrificing their noise levels. They come with over ten cooling effects and since their RPM is only up to 1500, they run quietly even at max load. – Features

Since there are many variations of the ML120s, we’ll be using the ML120 Corsair iCUE RGB Elite fans as our base. The ML120 comes with the same set of accessories that’s on the LL120s, including the fan connectors, lighting connectors, and lighting control hub. Once you’ve done that, take the lighting connector that’s attached to the fan and plug it into any of the ports labeled one to six on the lighting control hub. Take note of the label here as it’ll be vital to the light control. We recommend that you do it in a sequence to make it easy for you to remember. Neither of these are insignificant chunks of change, but you'll be left with a powerful gaming PC that should cope easily with the latest games for at least a few years, whether you're gaming at 1080p, 1440p or even 4K. which actually, everything is plugged into this other included Corsair RGB controller, and then that is plugged into the first port on the Node. and I don't know if the other included thing has a name, but I included a picture of it in case that is helpful.)The ML120 Pro light show comes from four RGB LED arrays evenly spaced around the fan hub. The light from those diodes diffuses through a frosted white plastic rotor that spins on the aforementioned magnetic-levitation bearing. The result is classy and eye-catching instead of garish and retina-searing. Corsair’s ML120 Pro RGB fans blend the purely practical innovation of magnetic-levitation bearings with a purely cosmetic augmentation: RGB LEDs. We’d normally expect a product to suffer for such vanity, but the ML120s defy expectations and lose nothing for their blinkenlights. Few times I used the Corsair ML and was disappointed. At low speed they don’t move enough air. At 50% they do, but are very noisy. The P12 at 50% (900 rpm), below the humming band (1k rpm) move a lot more air and still relatively quiet. the lighting node core can only do the lighting but it can only do 6 fans were as the node pro with 2 hubs can do 12. While B450 boards are an even cheaper option, B550 and X570 motherboards have two major advantages: support for Ryzen 5000-series out of the box and support for PCIe Gen 4.0 storage and graphics cards. Having access to these adds a degree of future-proofing that you won't find on B450, in exchange for a slightly higher up-front cost. X570 boards tend to support a larger number of PCIe 4.0 devices simultaneously, but tend to cost more. If you plan to have a lot of fast PCIe 4.0 storage installed, then X570 makes sense; otherwise go for B550 as you'll get better value.

Generally, the performance-affecting components that will cost the most in a balanced build are the graphics card, processor, motherboard and RAM. Of these, the graphics card and processor are where you should probably spend any extra money you have. Tried the O11 XL, triple 360 XT, push/pull didn’t help. At some point, when you have so much rad area, you won’t gain anything adding more fans. But, now I'm starting to see that I might still need a node (along with the other included controller) to control the RGB on the fans, and the all then all the Commander Pro does is control their speed. How you connect the cable doesn’t matter as both ends of the cable have the same headers, and since you won’t be plugging anything else in the lighting node pro, we recommend that you connect the cable to the first channel. I know The Pro has more temperature sensors and USB and stuff, but is that really the only difference?

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so looks like the commander core is new and it can control the pwm on the fan as well as the lighting like the node core can only do 6 fans instead of 12 liek the commander and lighting node pro With all these cables and control boxes running everywhere, it’s only natural that one might want to install them out of sight—probably behind the motherboard tray in many modern cases. However, the roughly one-foot-long USB cable that Corsair includes with the Lighting Node Pro might limit where one can hide the box in some enclosures (especially those that don’t have convenient cable pass-through holes under the motherboard). The company includes a similar USB Mini Type-B cable that’s about two feet long with its fancier liquid coolers, and I would have liked to see one of those cables in the box with the ML120 Pro RGB system for greater cable-routing freedom. You’ll need to take note of how you connect your fans to these connectors as the arrangement would be what will determine how the RGB lights work. – Lighting Node Pro RGB LED components are nothing without software to control them, and in the case of the ML120 Pro RGBs, that duty falls to Corsair’s Link utility. On top of its system-monitoring capabilities, Link can be used to customize various settings of Corsair’s wide range of compatible peripherals, including PSUs, heatsinks, entire fan-control hubs, and more. For the ML120 Pro RGBs, we get control over lighting color and eight prebaked animation effects. The Wraith coolers that come with AMD's lower-tier CPUs are surprisingly decent, providing sufficient cooling performance albeit at relatively high noise levels. That means you don't need to spend any money on a custom cooler, as you would do with an Intel system. If you've opted for a higher-end AMD CPU, then the classic Hyper 212 Evo is a solid budget choice.

Will wiring be a nightmare? I think I'll need one or two PWM hubs for the QL120s to plug into the Commander Core. Does this make sense? Thanks to the fact that LL120s support PWM, they are ranged fans as they can be controlled to provide speeds from zero to 100 percent. This means that you can utilize them at zero RPM and make them run at their full capacity of 1500 RPM. Since its inception, the LL120 has been a favorite among PC builders because of its low-noise performance and RGB lighting effects. The LL120 RGB fan kit comes with two RGB fans and an RGB lighting control hub that connects to your fans and powers the RGB lighting. Next, take the mini-end of the USB cable and connect it to the lighting node pro connector then plug the nine-pin USB header end into a free USB 2.0 header on your motherboard. Doing so will make it easy for you to utilize the software control.Take the three-pin cable that connects the lighting control hub and the lighting node pro and connect one end to the lighting control hub and the other to one of the channels in the lighting node pro. Next are the PWM fan connectors, which can be connected depending on your rig. You can connect them to an AIO to use your fans as cooling fans, directly to your motherboard, or connected to a fan hub. Thanks to AMD, Gigabyte, G.Skill, Intel, and EVGA for helping outfit our test systems with some of the finest hardware available. For each category of components - processor, RAM, storage - we've given our top value-for-money recommendation, plus more options if you want to save money or go for higher-grade components than our suggested spec. At the end of the piece, you'll have a balanced build with components that should work together well.