be quiet! Silent Wings Pro 4 PWM, 140mm

Auch die be quiet! Silent Wings 4 (Pro) 140 mm wurden schon vor Wochen vom Marketing beworben, aber heute gibt es endlich den Test als Teil 2 im direkten Vergleich zu den Modellen mit 120 mm Durchmesser. Natürlich gab es seit dem Launch bereits diverse Reviews im Netz, aber wir haben uns diesmal bewusst mehr Zeit genommen. Wer sich über die neuen 120 mm Lüfter informieren möchte, den verweise ich gern auf den bereits veröffentlichten Test. Aber auch so habt Ihr einen guten Vergleich, denn heute vergleichen wir einfach mal beide Modelle gegeneinander, bevor wir sie später vielleicht auch als jeweilige Referenz einsetzen werden. Und ich habe für den Vergleich später auch noch eine Idee, um ab jetzt alle getesteten Lüfter in Echtzeit untereinander vergleichen zu können.

Die be quiet! Silent Wings 4 (Pro) 120 mm wurden bereits medial ausführlich besprochen, aber heute gibt es nun endlich den lang ersehnten Test. Wir haben als ersten Teil die 120-mm-Gehäuselüfter gewählt, wobei wir die größeren 140-mm-Lüfter zeitnah nachreichen werden. Zur Theorie gab es ja schon Pressemeldungen und Informationen in Wellen-artigen Schüben, aber so richtig in Detail gehen dürfen wir erst heute. Aber mittlerweile lebt man ja damit, dass sogar links- und rechtsdrehende Schrauben ihre eigenen NDAs bekommen. An getrennten Tagen natürlich, wobei die unlackierten erst eine Woche später veröffentlicht werden dürfen. Aber gut, Scherz beiseite, denn jetzt wird es Ernst.

Die High-End-Lüfter von be quiet! gibt es nun in vierter Generation. Die Silent Wings 4 sollen sowohl leise als auch besonders leistungsstark arbeiten können. Wir haben zum Start sowohl die Silent Wings 4 in den high-speed-Ausführungen als auch die Top-Modelle Silent Wings Pro 4 120mm PWM und Silent Wings Pro 4 140mm PWM getestet.

Finally, a 140mm fan that doesn’t wade between the 120mm ones, but has a clear edge over them – even the “best” ones. And it’s a completely different story than its smaller brother, whose biggest negatives are avoided by the 140mm model. But there is one new, rather unnecessary flaw. However, it can be eliminated, with a trade-off. But you might not even notice it, and then you can consider this fan an excellent choice.

be quiet! pride themselves on having some of the coolest and quietest products on the market, and based on my experience with their latest flagship fans, that is clearly still true. These are some incredibly quiet fans, even more so when you consider how high their maximum RPM is! Quiet fan companies often take a cheeky approach by simply using slower-speed fans, thus giving you less noise at the cost of overall cooling performance. With the be quiet! Silent Wings Pro 4 fans, you still get the low-RPM goodies you expect from quiet fans. However, with their high-speed and ultra-high-speed fan modes, you can really push some truly massive airflow. Sure, they’re noisier in these modes, but compared to other fans on the market of a similar speed, they’re comparatively quiet. Of course, using PWM connectors, just because you enable the Ultra High Speed mode, they won’t always spin at that speed, and you’ll still need to set your fan curves on your motherboard or controller software, however, you choose to do it, this is an important step. This will ensure you can get the whisper-quiet performance benefits when you’re working or watching YouTube instead of actually working, but when it comes to gaming on a hot day, the fans have plenty of boost to ensure your performance is maintained. The build quality is also exceptional, and while the fans are quite expensive, the overall quality of the product really speaks to why they cost what they do. The fact that they’re somewhat modular is pretty cool too, I’ve never seen swappable corners like this, and while it may not seem like a big difference, any performance gains are certainly welcome when using them as case fans or on a cooler.

Also the be quiet! Silent Wings 4 (Pro) 140 mm were already advertised by marketing weeks ago, but today there is finally the test as part 2 in direct comparison with the models with 120 mm diameter. Of course, there have already been various reviews on the web since the launch, but we deliberately took more time this time. If you want to learn more about the new 120 mm fans, I would like to refer you to the already published review. But even so, you have a good comparison, because today we will simply compare both models against each other, before we might also use them as respective reference later. And I also have an idea for the comparison later, to be able to compare all tested fans in real time with each other from now on.

The be quiet! Silent Wings 4 (Pro) 120 mm have already been extensively reviewed in the media, but today we finally have the long-awaited test. We chose the 120mm case fans as the first part, though we will follow up with the larger 140mm fans in a timely manner. In theory, there have already been press releases and information in wave-like bursts, but we can only really go into detail today. But in the meantime, we live with the fact that even left- and right-handed screws get their own NDAs. On separate days, of course, with the unpainted ones not allowed to be released until a week later. But well, joking aside, because now it’s getting serious.