I desperately needed to replace the fans in my case, The case fans were cheap fans, in a cheap case but they did move air, the biggest offender and why I needed the OEM case fans replaced was because they were blue LED which you can not turn off. I leave my computer on 24/7 instead of having a giant blue lamp every night I would either put a book or something around the fan so the light won't shine towards the bed. I have carpeted floor so having the PC on the floor would not work.( I have mechanical drives, one day I will add a SSD as my boot drive so I don't have to worry about slow startups)



These fans worked for me because;

1. These are pretty quiet and provide good airflow even with new air filters added in front of the fans.

2. I could daisy chain the fans together instead of having 3 fans connected to 3 separate fan headers, I ended up adding a side fan and daisy chaining them to the 2 front fans, so now I only use 1 for 3 of the 120mm fans, 1 for the 140mm fan, even though I could daisy chain it, and since I had an extra fan I decide to use it for my Hyper 212 evo since it came with brackets and screws. I now have 1 free fan header slots. (Motherboard is a Asus Z97-A 1 cpu + 1 opt cpu and 3 additional fan headers.)

3. They were cheap for cost per fan

4. Finally they have NO stupid LED lights



I would buy the 5 pack again if I needed a good price per fan that is quiet with no LED lights. If you wonder if they get loud at full speed, they do start to make some noise, but most of the time the fans are not running hard so my fans are quiet.