**Motherboard Software Syncs with Controller**

The motherboard software sync feature essentially turns this controller into just an RGB strip. The lights aren't on right now because we have Aura Crate running and we've got this set to Audio Spectrum, which basically responds to noise and stuff. I didn't realize that was the reason for the freeze frame perfect. So, we wanted to see how well this reacts to music and stuff. Here's the way they react to Aura and as you can see, we have them set to the music of our you know the audio here. Look how reactive you can see they sync with our RAM and our motherboard perfectly and even the shade of color looks very very correct.

The problem is sometimes you'll find one company's blue is more green and another one's blue it's more white. These look like they match the G-Skill translucent or diffused tops perfectly. And if we take a look at some of the other modes here, I want you to notice just how quickly it transfers. We've got both pieces of software running, which is usually a no-no, that's like conflict city if you try and have one device controlled by two different pieces of software but remember it's a controller it can literally just cut off communication and take over.

If I unsync it, see how fast that came back. Watch how quickly this hands off control. Ready three two one click, two seconds not even that. Yeah, this is what I've been waiting for, and it's funny you would almost think that my rants about the way other companies do this has been leading up to this like review and that's not the case. I literally tweeted them was like oh my god, I need these; I wasn't a part of their product launch or the review team or the review cycle, and this is like the first time we've actually done anything specific with Liam Lee.

**Fan Control**

This fan checks all the boxes for me, fan control, daisy chained in a way I would have never imagined where you do it through the cage of the fan not through little wires great static pressure great acoustics great looks. It's a great fan for both airflow and static pressure, and usually with that type of fan you've got to give and take on one or the other. Great airflow okay, static pressure great static pressure on airflow but it's got the rubber pads it's got RGB on the top and the bottom.

It gives you a usable rpm range, a lot of fans stop at like 1200 rpm or 1500 rpm this goes to almost 2000, and while doing that, it stays at a maximum acoustic level of 38 decibels. I'm not surprised that a company like Liam Lee is our savior in all of this. They're 16 fans, a single controller, a maximum of one wire harness per group of four, and then you have technically only two wiring harnesses are needed if you don't plan on using the motherboard ARGB controller or the PWM, and you just want the controller to do it all.

This would literally give you the cleanest tidiest setup possible. What would you do with these fans? Do you need them? The answer is yes; you just don't know it yet. Again, Liam Lee had nothing to do with this review other than I was like please send me some, and they were like okay, I need them to send me more, I want to use these in a build but I'm not going to waste them. They're going to go into a build that matters, and something that's going to be used every single day.

I thought about putting them in my work PC but to be honest, all that really does is play World of Warships while Phil does all the actual editing; my only gripe, and I hope this is temporary, is they don't come in a 140-millimeter variant. I feel like with the amount of cases now that are using 140-millimeter fans uh Nebula for me is running what 3 6 9 12 140-millimeter fans. I would literally put these in Nebula and tear it apart and change all the fans out in my very next video if these had 140s available.

**Availability and Conclusion**

So, Liam Lee please make this into 140. Anyway, thanks for watching Sound Off below what you guys think about these fans for me; it checks all the boxes; it'd be nice to have a sleeve bearing in there but we'll see how long these fluid bearings last if you guys need these fans check the description down below I believe they're available at Newegg, I'll put a link there but there will be available at Newegg anyway. They're not available yet; they come out later this month. Thanks for watching guys and as always we will see you in the next one, and I'm going to go ahead and put this back to hearing there we go.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ena couple days ago i put a picture of this box up on twitter and i said i cannot wait to share with you what is inside this box it takes a lot to make me excited for anything technology related these days after doing this for almost a decade you kind of see the same things done over and over and over they slap a new coat of paint on it they call it something new and they expect you to be excited about it but you know what this was just kind of a red herring really this box has nothing to do with what's inside people were like oh no it says quantity 400 net weight 17. it's probably fittings and you guys were i was like guys it's a box that has stuff in it trust me you want what's in here the elite xg270 qg from vue sonic breaks the traditional ugly appearance of gaming monitors by providing an ultra clean design while still delivering gamers the features that they want most features like a one millisecond response time ips 165 hertz overclock display black brushed aluminum stand with tilt and swivel mouse and keyboard cable anchors and customizable subtle lighting to learn more about the xg270gq from viewsonic and to see current pricing click the link in the description below now this is early access to a product this product does not come out for a couple of weeks it is from liam lee a lot of you guys are like it's the lee lee water cooler no that's right here actually this one i do have a sponsored video to do about no actually i don't i'm just gonna be doing an ad about it but this is the new lienly aio that's what we're talking about today what we have in here is something that everyone needs in their system fans oh god jay the biggest letdown ever no trust me these fans are not what you think and they gave me a bunch of them which is perfect because i like them so i saw these on twitter with one of their little marketing like spiely dealy bobbers they had a little video and they had some some folks that they sent them out for review and stuff and i was like oh my god i need like a palette of those this isn't exactly a palette's worth but nonetheless it's plenty obviously we've got two different colors here we've got black and we've got white but jay they're just fans who freaking cares my biggest complaint i've had about anything rgb related especially corsair i i look corsair makes great stuff i've continued to complain about their their integration of their cabling each fan has two wires that come off of it that connect to a lighting controller which then has to connect to the commander pro which then has to connect to sata and has to connect to usb and the low lighting controller also has a sata connector so two power connectors a usb and if you have three fans that's six cords if you have 12 fans that's 24 chords and two commander pros for you sata do you see the point what we've got right here is liam lee's unifan or uni fan i don't see i didn't know what it was called i was that excited about it the uni fan sl120 so here's what how this works you need the starter kit which is basically a three pack to get the system going the individual fans that you see right here are not going to work lighting wise with your system unless you have the controller that's with this yes i know i'm already talking about a controller but this is different trust me so this is everything that comes in the three pack we'll look at the fans in a second here's the control box and each control box has four groupings if you will now the crazy part is when i say grouping what does that mean well trust me that's the exciting part about this video these are the three fan connectors for the fans um so what we've got here is a fan tac wire so if you have all your fans connected to this you need to still tell your computer the fans are running for various reasons this plugs into the motherboard this plugs into your existing argb header on the motherboard now i assume that this is so that we can control it with aura or something like that i haven't i don't know yet we'll have to test that but it also does have its own software it comes with its own usb cable so that you can plug it into a usb 2.0 uh header and then you can control the box here's the single power connector for it and then here's an argb splitter because if you're taking up your header with this this will allow you to split it off so you can have one going to the motherboard one going to this device and one going to another set of something that can be controlled with argb so jay you talked about this being a lot less wiring that looks like an awful lot of wiring no it's not let me show you why now the construction of this fan i didn't expect it to be so nice honestly um phil feel the weight of that fan like just it's weighty it's solid the cage is strong it's got like metal on the sides you got metal right here nice brushed aluminum this is obviously the white addition that you have an actual metal ring does it spin straight that is so satisfying that is perfectly centered it doesn't wobble all right so here's the three pack you've got your fan cage you've got uh markings on here that show you how to connect the other fans you've got this nice trim rubber standoffs which mean it's not going to vibrate when you plug it into something it's nice firm rubber so it's not going to squish real bad either they are 12 volt 0.18 amps and they are 800 to 1900 rpm with a minimum of i think six volts to make it start spinning but here's the thing check this out typically you have your three fans you've got wire set wire set wire set and this would only be if you're having these go to three different locations however if you've got a radiator or something where you know you're going to connect three of them together check this out it's my first time trying this so if you notice right here you got slide contact and on the opposite end you've got these little spring loaded push pin connectors you can connect i'm not sure how many of these can connect in a row together but it's going to be plenty so you would take this mount this to your radiator or whatever and now it is sending the signal for rpm and power daisy chain through here which means also the orientation of the fans are all identical and you're only going to have one set of wires coming off here to control it by hooking this guy up on the end so now you've got that aside one set of wires coming off of this your proprietary plug so you have to have this control box this will plug into let's say grouping one and you can plug this into the fan controller right there so you have one grouping now that now has you know three fans if you got a 480 rad you could hook another one but the best part is any lighting effects that happen here because these are rgb and they're embedded in the sides right there they're so ghosted in there you can't even tell that these light up but they do so you can see just how much less clutter you can have in your system by only having to manage that this is all you have to manage in your case really and then how much length do we have here because that's the other thing they've got to be long enough to reach i feel like that's plenty of link because this is going to be on the back side of your case and this is going to be up at the top or the bottom so you can see that's a lot easier to manage than a typical mess so many of these brands give you when it comes to uh connecting this all together this is something no one's done before there have been plenty of companies that have made daisy chains where you have an in and out and you still have to have a little wire and a little wire and a little wire actually that's the way nebula is but there's a limit to how many times you can use it or daisy chain it because it still just uses the argb header and there's a limit to how many leds it can control fun fact one of the very front fans on my nebula system at the very top and the very top leds are like the farthest point away those will every now and then just like seizure because the signal's not quite making it that far because of the power draw by the time the signal gets down that far it's been eaten up by all the fans in front of it and so one rgb header argb header is not enough to control all my fans so i just stuck those way up there at the top where you can't see them where every now and then they just sort of spasm it's also why my nebula system is sitting there in a static color and not any sort of an effect because it's even worse when there's an effect so having a solid color is easier for it to maintain those leds rather than having it do things so we are going to hook this up to our test bench because i want to see how many we can connect together that's what you get with the starter kit and that's why i said you need that because what you get with the individual fan is basically just the fan itself and then that connector plug and this is not going to connect to your motherboard or anything because as you can see it's got that proprietary connector on the end which looks an awful lot like the one fantex uses so i wonder if it would work with like one of those but anyway um that's not going to plug into your motherboard or anything so you need the controller to plug it into so you've got to start with the three pack starter kit and here's the other thing you're ready for this the corsair light loop 120 fans can cost you as much as 45 dollars a piece 45 dollars these guys i know this sounds so infomercially but i am really excited about this because these are 25 bucks each yes that's still an expensive fan but that's almost it's just over half the price of the competitor with a cleaner solution they do this they're really solid i feel feel that oh yeah it's actually it's not it's not like look are you gonna karate chop it in no i'm just showing that like there's very little wobble right let me grab a radiator so i can show you just how simple because they touch that was a weird sound because they touch that's they're going to be perfectly fine on a radiator so what we need to what we need to test right here right now because my concern when i first saw this was like well with them touching is that going to make them maybe not fit in various cases and stuff but i don't believe that's going to be the circumstance at all because cases are designed for you to be able to slide the fans together radiators automatically make you touch them together you know they have to be like no kid we should be able to get this one connected right there and if this one connects right here then we're good there you go so you wouldn't even have to put like all the fans in or all the screws you could just do the four perimeters yes look how nice that is and on the black ones are those silver or are they black so you can see it's black anodized with a like a machined edge so do you know what really sucks when you get an rgb fan and i'm going to continue to kind of throw corsair under the bus a little bit here if i can find one okay fine i'll use i'll make it fair i'll use a fractal fan no fractal fans have been one of my other go-to rgb fans because they just use a regular argb header and they have a splitter built in so you don't you can daisy chain these together it's just you have you know two feet of cable the rgb is always on the side that's pulling the air through right so they'd be going that way but if you're using intakes in the bottom of your case and they're like that you cover up a lot of the lighting it's exactly what ended up happening to little jay's computer when i put those fans in the bottom pulling up and those are corsair light loop 120s because this has lighting on both sides of the fan regardless of which way you mount it you get your lighting effect do you see why i'm getting so excited over this look how quickly i installed them on a radiator like how quickly i installed them together it's it's just absolutely bonkers so they're 120 by 25 very standard they're fluid dynamic bearing that might be the one thing that people might complain about is it's fluid dynamic fluid dynamic is a little bit more susceptible to dust buildup in there as the fluid starts to absorb some of the dust it can get thicker um it gets dirty there's certain orientations they sometimes don't like to be in and i think that's where they were able to save some of the cost which is what's made it um you know only about 25 bucks a piece plenty of fans out there are fluid dynamic but what ends up happening with those is those are the fans that over time you kind of hear them go hit the fan and then and it stops because what happens is that fluid starts to leak out over time a little bit and then it becomes a little bit more play in the bearing than the king wobble so i would have loved to have seen a sleeved bearing but i know that would have made or even a ball bearing but that would have made the price obviously more expensive they're 12 volt fan 5 volt led obviously you don't want to plug it into a 12 volt or you'll blow it up they are 58.54 cfm at 1900 rpm so plenty of airflow but for radiators 2.54 millimeters h2o that's a very good amount of static pressure again at 1900 rpm max noise level says 31db you can kind of take that and throw it out the window because that's going to be in a perfect environment where it's tested like that with no restriction and a lot of times what you hear in fan noise is the restriction of its hitting fins through a radiator or going through a grill and that's what makes it sound a lot more noisy let me clean up the mess i made right here let's hook these up to the test bench we'll test them both on the rad and off the rad to kind of see visually how the airflow works and then we'll take a look at the lighting control because unfortunately that is one of the downsides is if this daisy chain rgb header thing doesn't allow us to use our existing controller that is in like aura or mystic light or whatever it may be then you've got to have another piece of rgb software all right so we got them hooked up here to our test bench which is an asus 10 series something or another irrelevant so the software was actually pretty easy to download they give you the link right here in the manual it's their lconnect software and i'm gonna tell you right now phil and i have been playing with the software for a little bit i feel like liam lee is the hero that we need and deserve it's not like the dark knight i'm not the hero gotham needs i'm nicki here wait no wait i'm not the hero so the effect you see happening right now is all being done through leon lee's um l connect uh i said over there in the other set i wasn't sure if we could actually control it with the motherboard and we'll test that here in a second but the first thing i want to show you is not so much the software but the actual performance of these fans now as i said these are what 600 rpm to 1900 rpm somewhere i think 800 to 900 somewhere around there it's a good amount of air these are running full speed right now can you hear me do that i guess you can know it's right there yeah when you get it that close they're so freaking quiet and the amount of air that they blow okay i know that this is not a representation of how much air they blow i'll show you a second but just look at the lighting the top and bottom lighting like i said no matter which way you face these fans you get to see the light look at the little uh the aluminum rings on there the little sticker rings they are centered about as well as they can be i guess one of them this one here wobbles slightly but it's it's so minor that when this when it's actually spinning you don't even notice it but you need some sort of a representation of how much air these are flowing that is if that isn't an indication of the wall and cushion of air dude i can't zoom out anymore it's still there yeah dude i feel like there's more airflow coming through this radiator 800 rpm with these fans than at like 1500 rpm and like most of the other fans we tried okay so let's talk about the software here for a second this is the part this is the other half of rgb i'm gonna tell you right now so many companies over engineer their rgb software which gives you these inherent problems of like lag or just it doesn't work it doesn't remember when you turn it off just all kinds of stuff it just is buggy the lee and lee l connect software is extremely basic here's your fan control mode if you don't have the rg or the fan header plugged into the motherboard this is the only way you control it right here so you've got manual which is where you just select where you want the rpm to be you don't get a ramp like you can't control a temperature ramp and i think the reason for that is there's nothing here monitoring temperature so it wouldn't know how to react respond to it anyway but you can manually set the rpm you have full speed high speed quiet in pwm now pwm would be the pass through if you have it set to the motherboard so you can allow the motherboard to connect to control your fans while still using this fan controller and that is through this pwm wire right here like i said if we were to plug this in that would allow you to control your fans to the motherboard through your fan header so you can see right here you can control up to four fans per grouping and that was something we weren't sure how many you could do we only have three hooked up right here per grouping so each grouping has its own control for a fan and led mode you control them individually and then you can either apply it to that group or apply all which apply to everything so let's talk about some of the different color modes right here you've got of course your standard rainbow and we'll just apply it to grouping two which should be the black fans yeah see we got these are still doing the original effect and then here's the rainbow and what we love about these leds is just the fact that they're diffused it's a lot like the g-skill um rgb top which in my opinion diffused rgb looks so much better than uh non-diffuse because the individual leds really kind of take away the effect so you gotta pretty standard modes here static rainbow breathing color cycle runaway is kind of a fun one so here's runaway for the black one by itself which we think is very ripe knight rider you know and you can change the background color and the main color you know and then black is just basically off or you can set it to blue right apply so there's that one grouping or if we hit apply to all it'll apply it to all the groupings now look how fast that updates it's really fast now what you might not be able to tell on camera because these videos are normalized or are set to a 29.97 fpr yeah 29.97 right yeah 30fps um these are probably 60 hertz polling rate the the the refresh rate of these leds and how fast they move it's at least 60. phil looked at that was like oh my god those are so smooth the animation yeah the animation is is extremely smooth um so you can have a total of 16 fans on a single controller that is just nuts fireworks kind of neat it goes together and then boom it explodes i do also feel like there's not as many rgb modes as there should be on here given how well their software seems to be working but that's okay let's say you have aura or you have mystic light and you want to use that well what will happen here is if you click this button right here that says motherboard software sync it essentially turns this controller into just an rgb strip you notice the lights aren't on right now that's because we've got aura crate running and we've got this set right now to audio spectrum which is uh basically responds to noise and stuff and i didn't realize that was the freeze frame perfect so we wanted to see how well this reacts to let's say music and stuff so here's the way they react to aura and as you can see we have them set to the music of our you know the audio here look how reactive you can see they sync with our our ram and our motherboard perfectly and even the shade of color looks very very correct the problem is sometimes you'll find one company's blue is more green and another one's blue it's more white these look like they match the g skill translucent or diffused tops perfectly and then if we take a look at some of the other modes here and i want you to notice just how quickly it transfers it so we've got both pieces of software running and that's usually a no-no that's like conflict city if you try and have one device controlled by two two different pieces of software but remember it's a controller it can literally just cut off communication and take over so if i unsync it see how fast that came back watch how quickly this hands off control you ready three two one click two seconds not even that yeah this this is what i've been waiting for and it's funny you would almost think that my rants about the way other companies do this has been leading up to this like review and that's not the case i literally this is like last minute i literally tweeted them was like oh my god i need these i wasn't a part of their product launch i wasn't a part of their review team or the review cycle and this is like the first time we've actually done anything specific with liam lee and it's like it checks all the boxes for me fan control daisy chain daisy chained in a way i would have never imagined where you do it through the cage of the fan not through little wires great static pressure great acoustics great looks it's a great fan for both airflow and static pressure and usually with that type of fan you've got to give and take on one or the other great airflow okay static pressure great static pressure on airflow but it's got the the rubber pads it's got rgb on the top and the bottom it gives you a usable rpm range a lot of fans stop at like 1200 rpm or 1500 rpm this goes to almost 2 000 and while doing that it stays at a a maximum acoustic level of 38 decibels you know i'm not surprised that a company like liam lee is our savior in all of this 16 fans a single controller a maximum of one wire harness per group of four and then you have technically only two wiring harnesses are needed if you don't plan on using the motherboard argb controller or the pwm and you just want the controller to do it all this would literally give you the cleanest tidiest setup possible what would you do with these fans and do you need them the answer is yes you just don't know it yet again liam lee had nothing to do with this review other than i was like please send me some and they were like okay i need them to send me more i want to use these in a build but i'm not going to waste them they're going to go into a build that matters and something that's going to be used every single day i thought about putting them in my work pc but to be honest all that really does is play world of warships while phil does all the actual editing my only gripe and i hope this is temporary is they don't come in a 140 millimeter variant i feel like with the amount of cases now that are using 140 millimeter fans uh nebula for me is running what 3 6 9 12 140 millimeter fans i would literally put these in nebula and tear it apart and change all the fans out in my very next video if these had 140s available so lee and lee please make this into 140. anyway thanks for watching sound off below what you guys think about these fans for me it checks all the boxes it'd be nice to have a sleeve bearing in there but we'll see how long these fluid bearings last if you guys need these fans check the description down below i believe they're available at newegg i'll put a link there but there will be available at newegg anyway they're not available yet they come out later this month thanks for watching guys and as always we will see you in the next one and i'm going to go ahead and put this back to hearing there we goa couple days ago i put a picture of this box up on twitter and i said i cannot wait to share with you what is inside this box it takes a lot to make me excited for anything technology related these days after doing this for almost a decade you kind of see the same things done over and over and over they slap a new coat of paint on it they call it something new and they expect you to be excited about it but you know what this was just kind of a red herring really this box has nothing to do with what's inside people were like oh no it says quantity 400 net weight 17. it's probably fittings and you guys were i was like guys it's a box that has stuff in it trust me you want what's in here the elite xg270 qg from vue sonic breaks the traditional ugly appearance of gaming monitors by providing an ultra clean design while still delivering gamers the features that they want most features like a one millisecond response time ips 165 hertz overclock display black brushed aluminum stand with tilt and swivel mouse and keyboard cable anchors and customizable subtle lighting to learn more about the xg270gq from viewsonic and to see current pricing click the link in the description below now this is early access to a product this product does not come out for a couple of weeks it is from liam lee a lot of you guys are like it's the lee lee water cooler no that's right here actually this one i do have a sponsored video to do about no actually i don't i'm just gonna be doing an ad about it but this is the new lienly aio that's what we're talking about today what we have in here is something that everyone needs in their system fans oh god jay the biggest letdown ever no trust me these fans are not what you think and they gave me a bunch of them which is perfect because i like them so i saw these on twitter with one of their little marketing like spiely dealy bobbers they had a little video and they had some some folks that they sent them out for review and stuff and i was like oh my god i need like a palette of those this isn't exactly a palette's worth but nonetheless it's plenty obviously we've got two different colors here we've got black and we've got white but jay they're just fans who freaking cares my biggest complaint i've had about anything rgb related especially corsair i i look corsair makes great stuff i've continued to complain about their their integration of their cabling each fan has two wires that come off of it that connect to a lighting controller which then has to connect to the commander pro which then has to connect to sata and has to connect to usb and the low lighting controller also has a sata connector so two power connectors a usb and if you have three fans that's six cords if you have 12 fans that's 24 chords and two commander pros for you sata do you see the point what we've got right here is liam lee's unifan or uni fan i don't see i didn't know what it was called i was that excited about it the uni fan sl120 so here's what how this works you need the starter kit which is basically a three pack to get the system going the individual fans that you see right here are not going to work lighting wise with your system unless you have the controller that's with this yes i know i'm already talking about a controller but this is different trust me so this is everything that comes in the three pack we'll look at the fans in a second here's the control box and each control box has four groupings if you will now the crazy part is when i say grouping what does that mean well trust me that's the exciting part about this video these are the three fan connectors for the fans um so what we've got here is a fan tac wire so if you have all your fans connected to this you need to still tell your computer the fans are running for various reasons this plugs into the motherboard this plugs into your existing argb header on the motherboard now i assume that this is so that we can control it with aura or something like that i haven't i don't know yet we'll have to test that but it also does have its own software it comes with its own usb cable so that you can plug it into a usb 2.0 uh header and then you can control the box here's the single power connector for it and then here's an argb splitter because if you're taking up your header with this this will allow you to split it off so you can have one going to the motherboard one going to this device and one going to another set of something that can be controlled with argb so jay you talked about this being a lot less wiring that looks like an awful lot of wiring no it's not let me show you why now the construction of this fan i didn't expect it to be so nice honestly um phil feel the weight of that fan like just it's weighty it's solid the cage is strong it's got like metal on the sides you got metal right here nice brushed aluminum this is obviously the white addition that you have an actual metal ring does it spin straight that is so satisfying that is perfectly centered it doesn't wobble all right so here's the three pack you've got your fan cage you've got uh markings on here that show you how to connect the other fans you've got this nice trim rubber standoffs which mean it's not going to vibrate when you plug it into something it's nice firm rubber so it's not going to squish real bad either they are 12 volt 0.18 amps and they are 800 to 1900 rpm with a minimum of i think six volts to make it start spinning but here's the thing check this out typically you have your three fans you've got wire set wire set wire set and this would only be if you're having these go to three different locations however if you've got a radiator or something where you know you're going to connect three of them together check this out it's my first time trying this so if you notice right here you got slide contact and on the opposite end you've got these little spring loaded push pin connectors you can connect i'm not sure how many of these can connect in a row together but it's going to be plenty so you would take this mount this to your radiator or whatever and now it is sending the signal for rpm and power daisy chain through here which means also the orientation of the fans are all identical and you're only going to have one set of wires coming off here to control it by hooking this guy up on the end so now you've got that aside one set of wires coming off of this your proprietary plug so you have to have this control box this will plug into let's say grouping one and you can plug this into the fan controller right there so you have one grouping now that now has you know three fans if you got a 480 rad you could hook another one but the best part is any lighting effects that happen here because these are rgb and they're embedded in the sides right there they're so ghosted in there you can't even tell that these light up but they do so you can see just how much less clutter you can have in your system by only having to manage that this is all you have to manage in your case really and then how much length do we have here because that's the other thing they've got to be long enough to reach i feel like that's plenty of link because this is going to be on the back side of your case and this is going to be up at the top or the bottom so you can see that's a lot easier to manage than a typical mess so many of these brands give you when it comes to uh connecting this all together this is something no one's done before there have been plenty of companies that have made daisy chains where you have an in and out and you still have to have a little wire and a little wire and a little wire actually that's the way nebula is but there's a limit to how many times you can use it or daisy chain it because it still just uses the argb header and there's a limit to how many leds it can control fun fact one of the very front fans on my nebula system at the very top and the very top leds are like the farthest point away those will every now and then just like seizure because the signal's not quite making it that far because of the power draw by the time the signal gets down that far it's been eaten up by all the fans in front of it and so one rgb header argb header is not enough to control all my fans so i just stuck those way up there at the top where you can't see them where every now and then they just sort of spasm it's also why my nebula system is sitting there in a static color and not any sort of an effect because it's even worse when there's an effect so having a solid color is easier for it to maintain those leds rather than having it do things so we are going to hook this up to our test bench because i want to see how many we can connect together that's what you get with the starter kit and that's why i said you need that because what you get with the individual fan is basically just the fan itself and then that connector plug and this is not going to connect to your motherboard or anything because as you can see it's got that proprietary connector on the end which looks an awful lot like the one fantex uses so i wonder if it would work with like one of those but anyway um that's not going to plug into your motherboard or anything so you need the controller to plug it into so you've got to start with the three pack starter kit and here's the other thing you're ready for this the corsair light loop 120 fans can cost you as much as 45 dollars a piece 45 dollars these guys i know this sounds so infomercially but i am really excited about this because these are 25 bucks each yes that's still an expensive fan but that's almost it's just over half the price of the competitor with a cleaner solution they do this they're really solid i feel feel that oh yeah it's actually it's not it's not like look are you gonna karate chop it in no i'm just showing that like there's very little wobble right let me grab a radiator so i can show you just how simple because they touch that was a weird sound because they touch that's they're going to be perfectly fine on a radiator so what we need to what we need to test right here right now because my concern when i first saw this was like well with them touching is that going to make them maybe not fit in various cases and stuff but i don't believe that's going to be the circumstance at all because cases are designed for you to be able to slide the fans together radiators automatically make you touch them together you know they have to be like no kid we should be able to get this one connected right there and if this one connects right here then we're good there you go so you wouldn't even have to put like all the fans in or all the screws you could just do the four perimeters yes look how nice that is and on the black ones are those silver or are they black so you can see it's black anodized with a like a machined edge so do you know what really sucks when you get an rgb fan and i'm going to continue to kind of throw corsair under the bus a little bit here if i can find one okay fine i'll use i'll make it fair i'll use a fractal fan no fractal fans have been one of my other go-to rgb fans because they just use a regular argb header and they have a splitter built in so you don't you can daisy chain these together it's just you have you know two feet of cable the rgb is always on the side that's pulling the air through right so they'd be going that way but if you're using intakes in the bottom of your case and they're like that you cover up a lot of the lighting it's exactly what ended up happening to little jay's computer when i put those fans in the bottom pulling up and those are corsair light loop 120s because this has lighting on both sides of the fan regardless of which way you mount it you get your lighting effect do you see why i'm getting so excited over this look how quickly i installed them on a radiator like how quickly i installed them together it's it's just absolutely bonkers so they're 120 by 25 very standard they're fluid dynamic bearing that might be the one thing that people might complain about is it's fluid dynamic fluid dynamic is a little bit more susceptible to dust buildup in there as the fluid starts to absorb some of the dust it can get thicker um it gets dirty there's certain orientations they sometimes don't like to be in and i think that's where they were able to save some of the cost which is what's made it um you know only about 25 bucks a piece plenty of fans out there are fluid dynamic but what ends up happening with those is those are the fans that over time you kind of hear them go hit the fan and then and it stops because what happens is that fluid starts to leak out over time a little bit and then it becomes a little bit more play in the bearing than the king wobble so i would have loved to have seen a sleeved bearing but i know that would have made or even a ball bearing but that would have made the price obviously more expensive they're 12 volt fan 5 volt led obviously you don't want to plug it into a 12 volt or you'll blow it up they are 58.54 cfm at 1900 rpm so plenty of airflow but for radiators 2.54 millimeters h2o that's a very good amount of static pressure again at 1900 rpm max noise level says 31db you can kind of take that and throw it out the window because that's going to be in a perfect environment where it's tested like that with no restriction and a lot of times what you hear in fan noise is the restriction of its hitting fins through a radiator or going through a grill and that's what makes it sound a lot more noisy let me clean up the mess i made right here let's hook these up to the test bench we'll test them both on the rad and off the rad to kind of see visually how the airflow works and then we'll take a look at the lighting control because unfortunately that is one of the downsides is if this daisy chain rgb header thing doesn't allow us to use our existing controller that is in like aura or mystic light or whatever it may be then you've got to have another piece of rgb software all right so we got them hooked up here to our test bench which is an asus 10 series something or another irrelevant so the software was actually pretty easy to download they give you the link right here in the manual it's their lconnect software and i'm gonna tell you right now phil and i have been playing with the software for a little bit i feel like liam lee is the hero that we need and deserve it's not like the dark knight i'm not the hero gotham needs i'm nicki here wait no wait i'm not the hero so the effect you see happening right now is all being done through leon lee's um l connect uh i said over there in the other set i wasn't sure if we could actually control it with the motherboard and we'll test that here in a second but the first thing i want to show you is not so much the software but the actual performance of these fans now as i said these are what 600 rpm to 1900 rpm somewhere i think 800 to 900 somewhere around there it's a good amount of air these are running full speed right now can you hear me do that i guess you can know it's right there yeah when you get it that close they're so freaking quiet and the amount of air that they blow okay i know that this is not a representation of how much air they blow i'll show you a second but just look at the lighting the top and bottom lighting like i said no matter which way you face these fans you get to see the light look at the little uh the aluminum rings on there the little sticker rings they are centered about as well as they can be i guess one of them this one here wobbles slightly but it's it's so minor that when this when it's actually spinning you don't even notice it but you need some sort of a representation of how much air these are flowing that is if that isn't an indication of the wall and cushion of air dude i can't zoom out anymore it's still there yeah dude i feel like there's more airflow coming through this radiator 800 rpm with these fans than at like 1500 rpm and like most of the other fans we tried okay so let's talk about the software here for a second this is the part this is the other half of rgb i'm gonna tell you right now so many companies over engineer their rgb software which gives you these inherent problems of like lag or just it doesn't work it doesn't remember when you turn it off just all kinds of stuff it just is buggy the lee and lee l connect software is extremely basic here's your fan control mode if you don't have the rg or the fan header plugged into the motherboard this is the only way you control it right here so you've got manual which is where you just select where you want the rpm to be you don't get a ramp like you can't control a temperature ramp and i think the reason for that is there's nothing here monitoring temperature so it wouldn't know how to react respond to it anyway but you can manually set the rpm you have full speed high speed quiet in pwm now pwm would be the pass through if you have it set to the motherboard so you can allow the motherboard to connect to control your fans while still using this fan controller and that is through this pwm wire right here like i said if we were to plug this in that would allow you to control your fans to the motherboard through your fan header so you can see right here you can control up to four fans per grouping and that was something we weren't sure how many you could do we only have three hooked up right here per grouping so each grouping has its own control for a fan and led mode you control them individually and then you can either apply it to that group or apply all which apply to everything so let's talk about some of the different color modes right here you've got of course your standard rainbow and we'll just apply it to grouping two which should be the black fans yeah see we got these are still doing the original effect and then here's the rainbow and what we love about these leds is just the fact that they're diffused it's a lot like the g-skill um rgb top which in my opinion diffused rgb looks so much better than uh non-diffuse because the individual leds really kind of take away the effect so you gotta pretty standard modes here static rainbow breathing color cycle runaway is kind of a fun one so here's runaway for the black one by itself which we think is very ripe knight rider you know and you can change the background color and the main color you know and then black is just basically off or you can set it to blue right apply so there's that one grouping or if we hit apply to all it'll apply it to all the groupings now look how fast that updates it's really fast now what you might not be able to tell on camera because these videos are normalized or are set to a 29.97 fpr yeah 29.97 right yeah 30fps um these are probably 60 hertz polling rate the the the refresh rate of these leds and how fast they move it's at least 60. phil looked at that was like oh my god those are so smooth the animation yeah the animation is is extremely smooth um so you can have a total of 16 fans on a single controller that is just nuts fireworks kind of neat it goes together and then boom it explodes i do also feel like there's not as many rgb modes as there should be on here given how well their software seems to be working but that's okay let's say you have aura or you have mystic light and you want to use that well what will happen here is if you click this button right here that says motherboard software sync it essentially turns this controller into just an rgb strip you notice the lights aren't on right now that's because we've got aura crate running and we've got this set right now to audio spectrum which is uh basically responds to noise and stuff and i didn't realize that was the freeze frame perfect so we wanted to see how well this reacts to let's say music and stuff so here's the way they react to aura and as you can see we have them set to the music of our you know the audio here look how reactive you can see they sync with our our ram and our motherboard perfectly and even the shade of color looks very very correct the problem is sometimes you'll find one company's blue is more green and another one's blue it's more white these look like they match the g skill translucent or diffused tops perfectly and then if we take a look at some of the other modes here and i want you to notice just how quickly it transfers it so we've got both pieces of software running and that's usually a no-no that's like conflict city if you try and have one device controlled by two two different pieces of software but remember it's a controller it can literally just cut off communication and take over so if i unsync it see how fast that came back watch how quickly this hands off control you ready three two one click two seconds not even that yeah this this is what i've been waiting for and it's funny you would almost think that my rants about the way other companies do this has been leading up to this like review and that's not the case i literally this is like last minute i literally tweeted them was like oh my god i need these i wasn't a part of their product launch i wasn't a part of their review team or the review cycle and this is like the first time we've actually done anything specific with liam lee and it's like it checks all the boxes for me fan control daisy chain daisy chained in a way i would have never imagined where you do it through the cage of the fan not through little wires great static pressure great acoustics great looks it's a great fan for both airflow and static pressure and usually with that type of fan you've got to give and take on one or the other great airflow okay static pressure great static pressure on airflow but it's got the the rubber pads it's got rgb on the top and the bottom it gives you a usable rpm range a lot of fans stop at like 1200 rpm or 1500 rpm this goes to almost 2 000 and while doing that it stays at a a maximum acoustic level of 38 decibels you know i'm not surprised that a company like liam lee is our savior in all of this 16 fans a single controller a maximum of one wire harness per group of four and then you have technically only two wiring harnesses are needed if you don't plan on using the motherboard argb controller or the pwm and you just want the controller to do it all this would literally give you the cleanest tidiest setup possible what would you do with these fans and do you need them the answer is yes you just don't know it yet again liam lee had nothing to do with this review other than i was like please send me some and they were like okay i need them to send me more i want to use these in a build but i'm not going to waste them they're going to go into a build that matters and something that's going to be used every single day i thought about putting them in my work pc but to be honest all that really does is play world of warships while phil does all the actual editing my only gripe and i hope this is temporary is they don't come in a 140 millimeter variant i feel like with the amount of cases now that are using 140 millimeter fans uh nebula for me is running what 3 6 9 12 140 millimeter fans i would literally put these in nebula and tear it apart and change all the fans out in my very next video if these had 140s available so lee and lee please make this into 140. anyway thanks for watching sound off below what you guys think about these fans for me it checks all the boxes it'd be nice to have a sleeve bearing in there but we'll see how long these fluid bearings last if you guys need these fans check the description down below i believe they're available at newegg i'll put a link there but there will be available at newegg anyway they're not available yet they come out later this month thanks for watching guys and as always we will see you in the next one and i'm going to go ahead and put this back to hearing there we go\n"