Hello this is the Provoked Prawn and this is a video to compare two fans from Corsair
the MM-120 RGB Elite seen here on the left in black and the LL-120 seen here on the right
I've done a video previously comparing the LL-120s with the QL-120s but the new MM-120 RGB Elites are
interesting and worth looking at so in this video I'm going to be talking to you about my experience
with two and showing off what they look like side by side as well as talking about the differences
between them now samples of this video were taken from my recent video on the 5000T from Corsair
where it comes pre-installed with three white LL-120s and I swapped them out for the MM-120 RGB
Elites now these are interesting fans for a number of different reasons firstly the mix between
essentially MM-120 fans and their air guide vortex style fans meaning they're designed with these
fins at the rear that you can see here which allow for a better airflow and targeted airflow that's
perfect for radiators and also for case use the main difference immediately between the MM-120 RGB
Elites and the LR-120s is aesthetics essentially the mm-120s are designed for superior airflow more
on the specs in a minute whereas the LL-120s are designed to focus mainly on the looks let's not
say they're bad for cooling though because I did use them in the crystal 680x a long time ago and
they are very Neat now if you buy a triple pack of either of the fans you do get a little RGB control
box with inside and you can see the MM-120 RGB Elite one here that essentially allows you to
plug into six fans for the RGB connection and then you just need to connect that USB cable and
the SATA power cable so the USB connects to your motherboard and the SATA to your PSU and then that
gives you power over the RGB lighting both fans have two cables one for power and one for RGB you
can either plug the power cables directly into the motherboard or use something like the Commander
Pro or the Commander Core XT as a fan control unit to then control the power for them so you do
need to connect the two cables separately and it does mean there are a lot of cables to deal with
if you have a lot of these fans installed you can see there are some visual aesthetic differences
between them even when they're not powered on though for example the MM-120 RGB Elites look
very nice from either side because they have that holographic sticker in the middle of them
which is present on both sides whereas the LR-120s as I showed there have a rather horrible looking
sticker on the rear however obviously visually the L-120s are superior because they have a
lot more RGB lighting and the ring around the outside whereas the RGB lighting on the MM-120
RGB Elites is more focused on the fans as I said the mi 120 RGB elise is focused more on
the performance these are magnetic levitation fans and they have a speed that goes from 450 to 2000
RPM that's comparable with the lr120 which is hydraulic bearing instead of magnetic levitation
and those are 600 to 1500 RPM so they don't spin as fast the other thing that's interesting about
the m120s is because they're PWM controllable they have a range from 0 up to 100 which means that you
can run them at 0 RPM as you will see me doing here in the Corsair 5000T so you can see that the
fans aren't spinning so they can be set so that they won't spin up unless it's required meaning
you can obviously have a very quiet case if your case isn't too toasty this is obviously fantastic
now in terms of the airflow the MM-120 RGB Elites obviously offer a better potential airflow as well
you can get up to 58.10 cfm from it and they have a better static pressure up to 2.9 mm and I will
include all the specifications in the description but essentially what I'm saying is that on paper
and in practice the mi 120 RGB Elites offer superior cooling and also the potential for
running at 0 RPM meaning they just don't spin when not required as long as you have the right setup
you can see some of the RGB lighting here obviously that vortex air guide set up on
the back does mean that the back side of them but actually doesn't look quite as nice but it
does also mean that you do get fantastic guided airflow through radiators and throughout the case
now the fans obviously aesthetically are quite different the LR-120s you can obviously see the
RGB lighting ring around the front and at the rear that just has four points and then obviously that
central area as well which unfortunately just has that little sticker on it it's not quite as fancy
they both have anti-vibration mounts on them and they are designed to deliver cool and quiet
performance there is a decibel difference in them as well that's worth noting the LL-120s
go up to 24.8 decibels whereas the mm-120s can go between 10 and 30 decibels so they're
potentially louder but they do spin faster at the top end so you can get to 2000 RPM instead of 1
500 so it's not surprising they are louder however my experience with the m120 RGB Elites is in setup
with a lot of fans in the case so you can see there's 10 fans up in this case and yet I did
some tests where I ramped up those fans to their most extreme speed so every fan set to maximum
and then I used a dust belt meter to register the loudness of it it was coming around 56
decibels and what I found is that is not obnoxious and it's not anywhere
near as loud as you might think I've had some experience previously
with other fans from Corsair like QL-120s which I found to be a bit louder than this and these
Elite fans are excellent in terms of cooling and overall performance however obviously they're not
as nice looking as the lr-120s and if you want to focus on RGB then the QL-120s are even more
impressive this has been the Provoked Prawn hope you found this video useful thanks for watching
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