I am one of those people, who actively avoid RGB, so these and Noctua probably would be on my shortlist when I am ready to upgrade my PC. Would be nice to see how they compare to equivalent Noctua fans.

I switched to BeQuiet fans earlier this year, major difference in cooling and very quiet. High quality indeed

what i like most is that even when it's ramped up, the tone it makes isnt an annoying whine, its a steady hum that fairly easily blends into the noise floor of the room. similar tone to some of the noctuas i have, and that is high praise.

I used to be one of those that would just use whatever fans came with the case (and also brought over old ones when I needed more). On my last build, I splurge on some BeQuiet silent wings 3, and am now a believer. Didn’t even know my GPU was starved, as I tested temps before the fans came in. Big difference.

07:22 120 mm fan speeds 10:00 120 mm fan speed demonstration

I've bought these fans two months ago and I'm completely blown away (no pun intended) by their performance. Ive never thought I'd be so incredibly hyped about my case fans, but they just are amazing! I'm happy you're talking about them, they definitely deserve the shout out

I love how Jay got excited over how nicely the cable was made

Be Quiet has consistently great products. My last two builds have used their fans and tower coolers exclusively, because I am extremely picky about noise AND heat. This new version looks phenomenal!

Would love to have these tested against the Noctua NF a12x25

Always loved bequiet's fans, rocking 3 silent wings 3 in my system

Love BeQuiet fans and cases. They think about everything and perform great.

For the price, I've always loved be quiet! products. They're dope!

I love BeQuiets fans, use them in my current pc and no complaints. Also the blacking out stickers is pretty sweet.

I'm currently using the RGB version because the set of 3 fans was the cheapest option and i just turn off the lights. Im really happy with this product!

Love these new fans, great idea with the changeable corners.

I have the 3 version fans and they are amazing. The install was extremly easy with the push pins and they press so much more air through my case compared to my older fans

It is more important to pay attention on fans than on CPU. Good quality fans are going to outlive a few generations of components.

Love them. If I need more fans or need an upgrade for my Silent Wing 3 they look to be a great option.

We just used these new fans for a couple servers we built for a client. I fell deeply in love with these fans. The push pins are amazing.

I have owned Silent Wings 3 fans in the 4pin variant for a few years now. Best fans I've ever used and they are going just as well as the day I bought them. Really nice to have a non-rgb fan that looks fantastic in a black or white build and competes with Noctua on performance and noise.

Everything in my PC is from BeQuiet. I’m very happy with their products and will happily purchase more!

Hey Thanks for all your great videos have been playing on a MSI laptop for four years and have been wanting a new PC. After watching you, you have convinced me to finally build one so thanks for all your help with parts.

BeQuiet is a brilliant example of German engineering. Not only their fans, but their PSUs and cases are all excellent. I love this company.

Yeah, pretty happy with the Silent Wings 2 140s that came with my BeQuiet! case. They also mount these awesome fans in their PSUs - absolute legends! The only problem I've had so far with any BeQuiet product was that one of the Silent Wings 2 fans started rattling, but then I put the case somewhere else and the rattle is gone? Now all that's left is an occasional rattle from the mesh in the front of my case. They could've added some padding there...

Been waiting so long for you to finally look at these Jay. 👍

I just switched to Bequiet fans last week. Picked up six of there Light wings. The performance is UNREAL. Coming from cheap amazon fans to these is a big difference. They are so quiet!!...even at full RPM. Brought my temps down 5 degrees across the board.

Its nice to see competition to Noctua fans. I use the Phanteks T30's for my builds now, because they're available in the three packs and I prefer the sound signature to them, but still, competition is great.

These fans look beautiful, I’ve been thinking about doing a Murdered out build so I think these fans could be fun to use on a CPU cooler like the Dark Rock Pro 4

I put these in a friend's PC some time ago. He's got a very powerful PC, but it stays absolutely cool and silent. These fans really are amazing.

I got the normal Silent Wings 4 and Silent Wings 2. Really love the Silent wings 4, they're so quiet and that cable is godsend. Really easy to cable manage

I'm a huge fan of this channel! The content blows me away! *insert additional fan pun here*

Recently did Be Quiet! for a PSU and AIO. And you can just feel the quality ooze out. Everything just feels so nice to the touch and both perform beautifully. First time experience, now interested in these fans. Thanks Jay!

I bought 6 of these silent wings 4’s for my 4000D a month ago. They are so extremely quiet i love them.

Thanks for the review. Fans are very important. I recently changed my case fans from a mix of the ones included with the case and one I got from a dumpster work station PC, because they were noisy. Got some Noctua, and I'm never building a PC with cheap fans ever again. The difference is amazing. Really worth it if you have the money.

My BeQuiet silent wing 3 fans were some of the loudest fans in my system. I had them with some Scythe Kaze Flex fans and the BeQuiet were considerably louder at the same rpm (they moved about the same amount of air too).

These look great. Would use them if not for already having a BeQuiet - Noctua combo. For the ones that would like RGB on them still (I generally don't like RGB, but wanted some subtle one to see the fans spinning through the dark tempered case) you can use Phanteks Halos with them. They look great. Especially with the ridges.

I love the be quiet fans in my system. I rebuilt my pc when i got my 4090 at launch, the be quiet fans replaced some cheap fans from a brand no one has ever heard of. Huge improvement in both silence and cooling

BeQuiet are also one of the few manufacturers who offers cases with the choice of a glass side panel, or a solid one. Great to still see some class in the game.

One feature I miss was the one on my Fractal Venturi fans, putting a 140mm fan on a 120 mount sometimes actually worked really well on some cases I build. This looks really nice but that hub looks pretty chunky so I wonder how that would affect AIOs performance?

I'm a huge "fan" of the BeQuiet brand. In my experience they are, by far, the best and most quiet case fan. They're quality made and look great! Looking forward to getting my hands on a set of these new models.

I've been only buying Bequiet fans since I tried silent wings in the past, amazing performance and the quietest I've ever had. One day when these are more affordable I could upgrade.

Gotta say, those might be the first Be Quiet! fans to actually consider buying because their previous fans were always pretty loud for their performance but the silent wings 4 might actually make them live up for their name, gonna have to see if an 80mm variant will come out and how those will perform to replace the Noctua fans in my server which is located exactly 2m away from my bed

Excellent vid, thanks Jay. I've used the Silent Wings 3 and one of their bigger cooler's, and they're definitely really quiet. I think they're perfect for a media center pc or for anyone who wants near silence. In a gaming pc if it's reasonably high powered I think they will cope but you would get cooler temps by using something that shifts more air at the expense of more noise.

"I don't want lights, I want performance". I'm totally with you on that.

I think they change the RPM between the fan sizes is due to tip speeds. They want to maintain a tip speed within a certain range, if a 140mm fan had the same 3000 RPM of the 120MM on the high setting would be a difference of 3.2m/s of tip speed.

Excellent timing! I am just looking at replacement fans for my Alesis HD24. Many thanks!

Good thing the vid came out before cyber monday! I'm ready to buy parts for my first build and this is definitely going on the list!

Really starting to appreciate BeQuiet! products... Been running a Pure Rock 2 for a while now with no complaints and just installed a Straight Power 11... I love the build quality and appreciate how their stuff doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Just started a new PC build...8 years since my last one. I received my be quite! silent base 802. Excited to get it put together...if the motherboard ever gets here. 🤦‍♂

Been using BeQuiet since their first products, Dark Rock Pro hit the market and absolutely loved everything they have done.

I love airflow dynamics in PC cases, maybe that's why I like having as many fans in my case as possible

Purchased a 5800X3D a couple of weeks ago and have been looking very closely at the be quiet product line for an entirely new build. Jay, your timing is impeccable.

Nice fans. Always like seeing quality non RGB fans

Jay is the master of turning a 5 minute video into a full on entertaining episode :D rock on haha

I really love their fans. They have always ran well and silent. Even their lesser premium ones. In my PC Case, I use the real silent ones for the always on and always on the same speed fans and the ones that are connected to my motherboard that ramps up if needed, are the more volume ones.

Holy moly those square corners are a godsend. Im big into DIY PC cases and doing anything curved is a pain in the butt (Good luck without pro tools). Making everything square makes design and cutting diy cases or even just mods that much easier!

Just got a second hand Fractal Torrent Nano. Came with 2 Be Quiet Light Wings 140mm at the front. Pc is silent at idle. Scarily silent. And never goes much above a whisper when gaming. Be Quiet be bad ass.

Yeah beQuiet is pretty cool. I use one of their cases with one of their PSU's, one of their Aircoolers and 5 140mm fans in that case, they are Silent Wings 2 but even they are super silent and give me very good airflow. I have plenty of issues with my System but Airflow and Temps aint one of them

Same here switched to BeQuiet fans earlier this year, went with the ligth wings, 3 140 mm, the computer is dead silent now and always cooled perfectly.

I recently switched from Noctua to be quiet 140 mm and i must say im very content with my choice, its all the little extras that give be quite the edge. Thx for enlightening us with this documentary J2C

LOL I just bought 6 of the 120 pro 4 . I'm in love !!! I also have two 3 packs of the phanteks T30 and I can't decide which ones I love more lol

What's the difference between the Pro and non-pro in day to day usage? (so ignoring the three mode switch and the extra corners)

I have a dark rock pro 4 in my system and have LOVED it.

BeQuiet has always been my go-to for radiator fans. The silent wings 3 was great. This new version seems even better!

I use 2 silent wings 3 as exhaust fans and 2 Noctua NF-A14 PWM as intakes. All 140 mm. Very happy with the performance and noise levels of both.

Jay! We need these in white! I've sent them a message praising their company and begging for a white color in these bad bears. We need this in our lives, especially since the popularity of white components have exploded over the past few years, they would sell a lot! Lets make it happen, send them messages!!!!

Got BeQuite Tower and fans, just love them.

Akasa Viper S flow - 7 years running 24/7 and they have yet to die (knock on wood). I'm using both 120mm and 140mm and they are perfect for my black and yellow themed build. 👉Pro tip - if you want to cover up those stickers/hub get a large hole punch from a crafts store and get some adhesive carbon fiber paper. Black, grey, yellow etc... whatever color you need to match the theme you're going for 😎

Find someone who looks at you the way Jay looks at these fans… 😆

I was quite surprised how quite my build was when I completed it. I expected it to be louder having watched many of these videos. Maybe I need more powerful fans 😂

these were already the fans i was planning to use on my next build

I have a PC case with a couple BeQuiet Gen 1 casefans which are still trucking on since 2011! Very good quality and reliability! If these would've come out when Noctua released the A12x25, I'd defnitely gotten these. (didn't want Gen 3, because of the frame not sealing well and blowby on radiators)

Changing the stock fans out in my Lian Li case to Noctua Redux was the best upgrade to my already good system. The sound difference between an average fan and ones like the BeQuiets or Noctuas is huge, especially at low RPMs where you're more likely to hear unpleasant bearing noise.

I’d like to see the 140mm compared with the Arctics on radiators

I have several of BeQuiet! fans and love them! I even have two of their Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU coolers. Absolute best!

Definitely a good looking fan and a brand I trust. It would be good though to hear it next to a generic case fan the kind you might find included when someone buys a case.

For several years I've been Noctua fans. They are expensive, but they are quiet and really cool well. Interested to see these.

Since the non "Pro" versions of the fans are about $10-$15 cheaper, I put 4 of these 140mm high speed fans in my workstation/gaming rig. Since neither Phanteks nor Noctua have made 140mm versions of their best fans, Silent Wings4s are probably the best 140mm fans on the market right now.

Am using a bequiet AIO (silent loop 2 360mm) and you can tell the quality of the fans... coming from id-cooling fans (aio frostflow+240), the difference are abysmal in favor of bequiet fans. May considered to get some for the case.

Thank you for an enjoyable video that brings back some memories about qualifying fans as a system integrator/seller back in the day. They look nice, but there's no way I'm paying a premium for these frills. It's very important to me to have high quality fans, but as a (former) system seller, I was getting fans in bulk and never paid over $5 per fan, for Panasonic, NMB, Sanyo, Delta, an occasional Sunon, etc. I have never had any of the fans I put in systems, fail before the system was retired. Most of the noise I encountered was not the fans themselves but rather caused by the immediately adjacent heatsink, or perforated case fan mounts. On my own personal use systems, I cut those perforated case screens out, but customers I kept them in because it looked more finished that way. However, I do really like and appreciate the 3 point toggle switch on those BeQuiets, except that these days, a typical fan header will have RPM control. Back before they did, I literally made several different setups to control the fan speed (before fan controllers were a thing), including a series of diodes, resistors, rheostats, and ultimately the more common solution was just a 10 cent, 2W resistor in series and testing at the system max TDP to ensure that was enough. Long time ago, glade to not have had to do that for ~15+ years. I have to disagree that the hubs don't get bigger on the motor, just depends on whether buying the cheaply built-for-PCs fans, or buying industrial grade fans like the Sanyos I've used. Their hubs are much bigger even on many of their 120mm models. Lastly, I am not too worried about some air escaping. If you try to block the paths of least resistance for this small amount of air, you create more turbulence, and slow the fan down at any particular voltage or (resistor set as with fixed speed or that switch on the BeQuiet) drive current, so it flows a little less air too, a higher noise to airflow ratio. I'm not suggesting they have bad noise to airflow ratio at all, certainly the opposite but it is mostly a marketing angle. Even blow-by air, helps to move the exhaust air through a heatsink further along its path to case exit points. Blowing around an object, creates a low pressure zone and suction through it too. The flow you were measuring, has a lot to do with how the blades were optimized, for free air flow or static pressure, especially when using a reduction tube. Each has their place. Max free air rating is better when your case looks like swiss cheese because you have more fans and fan mount holes than you really needed, but that can help with redundancy, system can stay running if any one particular fan fails (even one in the PSU if the system is set up well with positive pressurization, which I like to do for a filtration setup). Of course, all bets are off if you have set the system up with minimal margins trying to make it absolutely as quiet as possible, but that is where the active temp vs fan throttling circuits on modern GPU, CPU, and case fan headers comes into play.

Better than noctua?

"Air is a fluid" JayzTwoCents, 2022.

The SW3 you have was taken from a cooler. If you buy them seperately, you also get the corner pieces, although they reworked them for the SW4s.

These look phenomenal.

Jay I love you ❤

The original Silent Wings 3 that came with my Dark Base Pro 900 all developed a really annoying grinding noise in the bearing. Although I will admit that I don't quite remember when I actually bought that case, they definitely did their job while they lasted!

I always go bequiet. I love them. When you lose for example a screw for your cooler you write them and they provide you with spare parts. Never had to pay for those parts.

I'm currently using the be quiet dark base pro rev 2 and it's an amazing case

You're the main man for PC info Jay , I have been watching you for several years and never once did you give bad info,,, TY on this day of giving thanks !! Spiral cut Honey Ham should be the main meat on Turkey day. Have a Great One Mr. Jay!

Thank you Jay for doing the maths, and yes you did good. Also I really appreciate everytime you make a comparison to automotive similarities because I understand that perfectly

That cable is gorgeous

Thanks guys!!!!! I just bought 3 bequiet fans today (Pure Wings 2 8mm, 92mm and a shadow wings 2 120mm ), i hope they do what i need with low sound ^_^

All my fans in my pc are from be quiet and I also am really satisfied with the performance and looks of them 🙂

Just purchased one of these, it’s excellent.

I just got the Pure Rock 2 FX cooler for my 5700X, honestly it's perfect. I love the ring rgb design, I do with it was on both sides of the fans though. My front case fans are the inwin Sirius loop fans and the thin but very bright rgb rings are perfect, and cover both sides. Just wish they had a better cable implementation like Lian Li does. Nice to see they took the orange off of the logo sticker too

I love how you got distracted by the cable 🤣 i would love these fans in my case. Great vid Jay

your in-depth converge of the fans just blows me away ............

I changed all my fans to BeQuiets after watching your other video's and so glad I did.

Man that switch on the fan had me sold already. I know what fans I'm using in my next build, speedfan software is great but I like that physical limit

Every really quiet fan has now this design. They look pretty similar to the noctua A12x25, Thermaltake Toughfan 12, Arctic P12 PWM, Phanteks T30. It just seems to be the best design and now everyone makes their own version of this.