Supplied as a triple pack in the UK, the FC120s feature fantastic digital RGB lighting, which does a good job of diffusing across the semi-transparent blades. The fans each have inputs and outputs, allowing you to daisy-chain them together, so you only need one 4-pin fan header and one 3-pin RGB header to control their speed and lighting.
Each fan has chunky anti-vibration mounts too, but the best bit is the price. At just £35 for three fans, you’re paying a little more than a tenner a fan. They’re powered by a SATA connector, so they only need the PWM signal from your motherboard’s CPU fan header to work. However, our Asus test motherboard’s
AI Suite software wasn’t keen on talking to the fans. Manually setting the EFI fan control to PWM solved the issue, but we didn’t have this issue with other PWM fans.
The FC120 only hit a peak airflow of 1.82m/ sec, but this is still in the same league as the Noctua NF-P12 redux. Sound quality was reasonable, with only a slight audible tone and very low noise level of 55dBA, giving it the best airflow-to-noise ratio on test at full speed and 1,000rpm, and it came second in the noise-normalized test.
The Deepcool FC120 has excellent efficiency, RGB lighting, decent performance and a bargain price for three of them. The be quiet! Silent Wings 4 is a better performer, but the Deepcool FC120 wins on value.
DEEPCOOL FC120 BENCHMARKS
VERDICT
Excellent efficiency and RGB lighting for a great price
+ Pros + Great airflow-to-noise ratio + Good airflow at 1,000rpm + Superb value - Cons - Limited maximum airflow - No single-fan option yet