Corsair ML140 PRO 140mm Premium Magnetic Levitation RGB LED PWM Fan(CO-9050078-WW)

Corsair ML140 PRO 140mm Premium Magnetic Levitation RGB LED PWM Fan(CO-9050078-WW)

Corsair ML140 PRO 140mm Premium Magnetic Levitation RGB LED PWM Fan(CO-9050078-WW)

 this case is chock-full of brand-new Corsair ml fans ml stands for magnetic levitation not maglev like the trains because that's a trademark kind of thing same technology kind of but we have to refer to it as magnetic levitation I'm not going to it's too much of a mouthful ml it is ml is significant courser tells me and I grabbed here a standard Corsair SP fan and a new Corsair ml look approximately similar both in 120 there are actually very different as the close-ups will show you the significant difference is the motor when the things running on 12-volt pwm it 

rides on air because the magnetic force separates the bearings there all sorts of bearing to get in motors sleeve bearings ball bearings fluid bearings this one literally rides on air therefore is quieter Corsair is very very excited about this technology I can understand why they're pushing it because new technology is not a new technology from their license but it's new to this this computer caters computer case fans I'm going to explain a bit why she think of these fans the ml part it is actually the least interesting aspect although I can understand why it's a clever

 marketing hook so what we have here is a bit quiet thought bass 900 case I've used it because it's big it's open it's got loads of fan mounting and I've put in three Corsair ml fans at the front we've got a red and a blue as you can see by the colors it might be a pound but the rear case fan is an ml black also 140 and then on their core set H 100 I v2 240 ml all-in-one cooler so mouthful we have two more of the ml fans this time in 120 and white and blue I imagine seeing as I've got the O red and the black in front of me and the other hardware we've got a see Sonic 

prime power supply which is utterly quiet we've got a gigabyte X 99 UD for motherboard LGA 2011 bat significant I'll come down a bit Core i7 5820k II and a whole stack of a very pretty Corsair ddr4 memory of flashing LEDs bit an LED theme as you can see so get them out to the fans the important information is this that you get the fans Pro and Pro LED and there's also a non-pro that they haven't quite explained you might a 2 pack which is a bit cheaper so you get 120 Pro LED that's a white blue or red a pro without LED which therefore is black and there's 

also a common or garden they're quite expensive they're in the territory and a pack of the non pros again not quite sure what's going on with those pounds so therefore significantly cheaper the one for tis same deal so the 140 millimeter Pro without LEDs  and then if you add LEDs  and the 2 pack non pros  they're LED  with a lot of money any of you label to put these fans in this case worth which is clearly a lot of money and frankly a bit silly what these fans bring to the party a massive range of speeds the 120s go from 400 rpm to 2400 rpm the 140 mils 400 rpm to 

2,000 rpm a colossal range now the marketing sort of suggests that because of the magnetic levitation bearing they can spin to this higher speed and you don't suffer the noise because of the clever technology I'm not convinced by that for the simple reason that the vast majority the noise you hear once a fan is spinning is actually air going through things through the fan blades the blades themselves air passing between the fan and their ring round the outside parting through your case all sorts of things the motor is almost sound it is there it is significant but it's

 a trivial trivial part you spin your fan of 2000 rpm if you can hear the motor is about the bloat pieces so that is but a mere detail will Park that the fact that these things spin to such a high speed I consider to be more or less than irrelevant because you be deafened as I'll demonstrate shortly more significantly Corsair has typically two ranges of fans AF for airflow each of the thin bladed jobs you stick in your case SB static pressure the wide jobs this is a static pressure fan that came with the h 100 i liquid cooler as stopper pops you switched it for the ml these ml's 

are hybrid fans we've seen this um a couple of the manufacturers noxious brings to mind where they've they've gone for fan that isn't as good at either job as the either AF or SP in the case of Corsair but it does a pretty darn good job in any configuration you want to whack it in the case it does a job put it on the pret on the radiator yet you're there as well and i like that i like that a huge amount one fan to rule them all as it were just to pick the color of the LED v you want also the power draw appears to have dropped with this new motor and I imagine that some 


tinkering with the Electronics power draws drop from three and a half Watts down to about three watts judging by the earth the labels and my maths which is a smaller adver worth having so how do they operate let me just show you what the noise is like I've got the H 100 I the link software is set to quiet mode quiet mode is the only mode that I personally would use on link because it is pretty dance on the case as you can see is open necessarily preserve how to get a glass panel off because otherwise um it just reflects out crazy so I don't have the option hiding it sealed with the side panel on it is really really quite I've also take the door off to give me access 

to a switch at the front so I'm cheating slightly I hold up there kit guru micro no power to the vents on the top of the case and it is quiet it's it's um actually quite in the sense of the doors off so I'm hearing more than normally here but it's quiet now if I use the link software I'll hold the microphone up and I'll go quiet I'm going to use the link software to change from quiet mode to performance mode and back to quiet now the significant thing there is that when the 120 fans are operating on quiet mode EML fans they're operating at a thousand rpm when I stick when I got to performance mode they go to 1800 rpm area there's a mode in between the two but 

essentially it's really low or highs I'm what I've tended to use these codes on in the past it works perfectly well with the LGA 2011 core i7 5820k quiet mode is absolutely adequate you you save but a tiny few degrees if you kick up to performance mode it really is not worth the extra noise and the problem here is that most people watching this review probably do not use LGA 2011 most people use LGA 1155 51 whatever it might be core i7 4th gen fifth general maybe so not 5th gen didn't really happen or skylake and the problem is the CPUs are fairly cruddy the 

packaging is dreadful they don't shift heat out so the CPU sits at 6070 degrees maybe even 84 really hammering the thing and you think I need more cooling you crank up the cooling it doesn't really help the CPU because it doesn't get out the temperature doesn't get out of the packaging so running your CPU fan there your liquid cooler fans are higher speed doesn't really help much because the CPU is the problem in the case of LGA 2011 the packaging is really good the processor idles around 30 degrees put it under load 40 degrees really hammer it overclocked 50 degrees it's a totally different world to LG 11 5x the standard desktop 

processors and in fact cortes reviewers guide for the ml fans refers to this it says please use this type of processor or the 6 Series so that's what I've done that's what a be my choice in UX actually shows what the cooling is doing now the point therefore is this noise level is what I would expect to have at any time because kicking out the performance is totally on this I don't need the noise the cooling I get the benefit I get is trivial there's another aspect to all this which is as I mentioned these are 12 volt PWM fans therefore you have to run them off a proper controller to get the right job now at the moment I've got the fan control in this case turned 

down low if you keep an eye as I kick it up you will see that the lights actually change and that's because this controller quite clearly is not doing a proper PWM job which surprised me somewhat you therefore the voltage is varying that's the point and Corsair is adamant that they on the on the case fans the liquid cooler was fine on the case fans therefore as I crank up the fan controller the lights will change and you'll hear the noise difference and here we go the microphone near the case fans and that's my point about the fact that these fans can spin to 2,000 rpm or 2400 rpm which is the quite blunt I don't much care my takeaway from that is 

that if you want to operate your fans at that speed you're either a sucker for punishment and all your running running the wrong processor if you're not using LGA 2011 core i7 and you're faffing around with your cooling move your platform sort out your x99 motherboard x79 if you must and then you can worry about the fine details so there we go ah that's my take on Corsair ml a bit around the houses but the magnetic levitation aspect is to me fairly trivial the details of what they've done with the hardware the reshaping of the housings the changes here then everywhere I think are very good the hybrid fan aspect I like a great deal if it means that we 

can ditch airflow static pressure fans and just go for one hybrid blooming great the fact they cost a fair amount of money that is a bit unfortunate but I can live with that because I'm thinking in terms of you buying two of these babies to go on your liquid cooler rather than packing out your entire case with the Blessed things what you do far better do is to buy a case such as this be quite and just use the stock be quite case fans that'll save you sixty quid right 

there and overall I like the new fans provided you can park the ML aspect of it and focus on the goodies they're really rather good they are not however bringing anything radical and new to the market they are a breath of fresh air .

Corsair ML140 PRO 140mm Premium Magnetic Levitation RGB LED PWM Fan(CO-9050078-WW)

 taking a look at some new fans from Corsair and they are totally new fans as well don't worry I'm here oh but uh it was easier for me to try and get these all in view and be angled downwards rather than trying to get my face in these as well so they are the ml pros and they're all pros but you have the premiums which have LEDs and then you have non LED ones as well but the ml standard mag left or magnet magnetic levitation now with a fan normally you have the motor in the back here where you do have magnets anyway because that's how the motors 

work but you do have a bearing of sorts there there can be several different types of bearing but essentially the bearing is what helps the it runs smoothly and perfectly level and all that type of thing there are several ones but not they all have kind of a contact some have fluid in them where they have like oil to keep them lubricated some of them are ball bearings and have ball bearings with the Lube in as well there's all kinds of different ones but with these magnetic and magnetic levitation fans they actually for one of the better term the best way I can explain 

it is they hover now one thing I do have to say right from the very beginning is that if you do get these or you're watching these videos because you've now got them make sure you run them with PWM because with PWM what that does is it Chuck's 12 volt into your fan but the PWM channel then tells it how far to spin and that's how it gets controlled so with the PWM on these you need to 12 volts in there because that's how the electromagnets help it hover better so if you don't have them on PWM and you run on it on DC or something like that and it's not quite 

getting the right amount of volts then it might not give the motor the talk that's required to get the performance from it so that's just one to check out there so we've said there are different types and they are and these are the ones that you'll get in at launch so we have a hundred and forty millimeter models and we have a hundred and twenty millimeter models now with the older range and I have them here but all you had the SP which was the static pressure fan and you can see that there's the big fat blades on this and then you had the AF and now this was 

what we would call the case fan you can see a much more angled pitch on the blade but more blades and smaller blades and this was just for an airflow fan now what they've done with the MLS is you've only got one and it's still a static pressure fan but it's been tuned to be able to do the job of both that's what they're saying anyway so rather than having two different skews this time we just have the one and it's apparently a mix of the two but when we do look at the performance and I'll bring you up a lovely graphic the 120 and we're going to compare these to 

the older SP fans so um the 120 you get our 12 to 75 CFM and that's at 16 237 DBA now you're thinking to yourself or why are you giving us two results Tom and that's because they go from 400 up to 2400 rpm now that's a massive big spec a scope for a fan to be able to go right down to 400 but then right the way up to 2400 as well some of your motherboards you may need to UM get the download this software that comes with it with your motherboard to be able to give them that massive massive range it might even be easier for those of you out there that do have 

for argument's sake a fan speed controller but you need to make sure it's a PWM fan speed controller not just a DC like I said before it's one of the reasons why I wanted to bring it up we do get a naught point 2 to 4 point 2 h2o which is your static pressure now the old SPS and the static pressure maximum was one point four six so it's almost three times the static pressure available now you do need to remember that the four point two is going to be when it's running at two thousand four our pins but the idea is and a lot of people go no I'm not going to run my fans at 2400 rpm yes but the idea with the maglev is that without the motor noise you can 

essentially turn the fan speed up and get the set more performance at at the same if not less noise we'll cover that in a minute we're just trying to get the specs done for the moment now with the 140s there are 22 97 CFM you've got nought point 2 to 3 mil 8 - oh now the old 140 millimeter ESPYs the static pressure on that was a maximum of one point one seven so you can see again you're getting about you know give or take two and a half times the static pressure with these fans versus the old ones now they have spent a lot of time with these in that the and the cage has been given just as much attention with the design as the blades themselves now 

with the cage you can see round the outside they've got a really smooth intake going in because you want to minimize the noise that the cage creates just as much as the the blades themselves because it can it can all create it and then round the back you can see that you've got that opening here which then the air that gets blown through because this is the the exhaust we'll call it intake open exhaust it's got it all closed you can see that you've got the cage and it angers it so it get basically rather than it going straight up it's going to go really wide which would be good for am your radiator isn't alike but also quite a funcly' I do like the way that there you've

 got the cross on them as well now I know a lot of the fans you do get the for now but I don't know it's just something about the way that that's kind of sat I personally find quite appealing the other thing that you can do with these fans is their the red blue white black you can see denotes the LED colors so with the LED colors if you get ready to get red but you can change these if you want you can buy them separately on the Corsair website and you can remove them so if you wanted to have red phantom white ends you know your options are there should you want to and they just need to have a bit of a pull but they do go there we go back on and there 

are nice sturdy fit as well so these plastic bits are interchangeable you've got the rubber bits on the end it's a very kind of firm rubber as well to help try and minimize any possible noise that you might get go through so you've got those and like I said you have the red blue and white LEDs and then you have a normal unbraided an LED black the other thing that kept getting mentioned with the older LED fans was the LEDs came from the outside in and when their fans were spinning they made a logo on there which it just became an internet thing to bring it up every time you saw them so what they've done this time is the LEDs are actually in the middle 

here and they radiate outwards so you won't get any of those questionable logos or like you know what I'm on about I'm trying not saying because I don't want to but anyway so now they light from the inside out rather than the outside in which should also give us a much more nice dispersal of the light as well but we will yet to see because now we what we really need to do is go and have a play okay so I've got some of the 120s in the system I've chosen the white LEDs because they're the ones that I like now and if you're wondering what this graphics card is it is actually the asus strix our X 480 anyway off topic in on the fans so a little bit of a professional 

shufti with the camera there we go we're running at this present moment in time at 400 rpm see that the LEDs all very nicely lit it is actually during the day as well so the fact the cameras picking up so nice it's actually quite cool what you can see as we have the LEDs in the middle and you do pick up a little bit of a ring around the outside it's a very soft ring to the eye though the camera makes it look a little bit better and all so with the way that you can see the blades you don't see those with the naked eye either it's just because of the shutter on the camera so the reason why we're here is just to show you that when you um turn the fans up or down that 

you're um you don't get a brighter LED see they are now just slowly spinning up to 1200 RPM and they are very quiet as well if we were to go turbo mode and go from 1200 straight the way up to the top but our point always was that when you turn them down the LEDs don't get dimmer and that's plain and simply because of the fact that it's being powered by our PWM and with the PWM they do get a 12 volt which is what we need for the maglevs so the LEDs also stay the same brightness as well so there are you know some good points in there to be brought up really this is just a quick section so I can show you what the LEDs on the fans it's just a nice 

way so that you can get a feel for the way that the colors do look I will say that the red does look a slightly darker a little bit different on to the naked eye this is the best way I've been able to find of showing you the red you can see that it does give off a lot of light and it is a very deep red as well it's just obviously with a an LED as a camera will always struggle to pick up the difference between the glare always comes out a little bit white but you can you can take my word for the fact they are a very deep red and all the rest of the kind of light and effect around 

the outsides of the frame and everything is all still very much that lovely deep deep shade after showing the red off I thought we have better show the blue as well the blue looks a little bit sky blue here it is slightly darker on camera I have tried messing around with white balance and other settings but I just can't get it to go I think it's just because my camera's meant for low-light but this is a really nice blue it's almost like the the blue OC 3d used to be but anyway you get the idea of the way that the lighting works on this one again you can see how much it puts 

out onto my hand and we're not in a pitch-black room either this is a it's only like one o'clock in the afternoon we've just pulled the blinds and here is the white now the center is quite diffused because it's got a frosted effect so it does just go out quite well you just spin the fan down you can see you've got frosted effect on the blades as well and if you're wondering why you can hear the fan noise it's because I'm powering them from a mains molex adaptor so we're not powering them by PWM which we would do in a system it's just a nice quick way for me to be 

able to plug these in and show you on a desk and be able to move them around without having a system glug din do you actually like the effect as they slow down hey sorry I'm playing the child in me was enjoying the light show but again you can see that these do put out quite a bit of light okay so it's the first time that you've seen my ugly face in this review but I have done some testing on the fans now I use the white LEDs because they were the ones that I personally wanted to see so they're the ones that went into the system now the ones that I the fans that I've used for comparison adjust the fans that I had in there from before so they've not been chosen 

specifically and they were the e cave artists and they are the white ones they're also PWM it go down to 450 RPM up to 2200 rpm so it seemed you know there were the vadas are more radiator specific but like I said they were just the ones in there and the cooler that we used was H 100 IV 2 or the H 100 i GTX although we're not allowed to call them that anymore Arlie anyway so 1200 rpm the vadas were 65 degrees the core says the 63 point one and to be honest with you so you can see in the graph they were just in front each time the one thing that with the Corsairs though is they say they're quieter and they are but one thing that you do need to 

remember is it's the motor noise that's quieter if you push air through a radiator so with like a and a dedicated radiator or an a IO or even a heat sink then you're going to get air noise as it passes over the fins so depending on how fast you push the air through those depends on the noise and each radiator can be different if they've got a looser thin stack they might be a bit quieter if you've got tighter thin stack they might actually need more static pressure but create more noise the same with your case if you've got a very tight kind of section of holes in the front 


of your case where it pulls the air through that can make more noise and the exactly same to go with your dust filters they can create noise as well and also they can create noise but also limit the amount of air that can come through so the one thing that I do want to stress is by buying a fan that says that it's going to be a quieter you need to remember it's the motor noise not the air noise because we are always going to create more noise the faster fan spin the more air you're pushing you're accelerating air you know what it's like on your bike so you're riding down the road and you're riding nice and slow and you can hear everything if you start going downhill 

quick you start hearing the air hitting your ears and things like that and you start to pick up that wind noise exactly the same sort of thing so you get no real noticeable motor noise I mean we've all had that fan that we've had in the past where you can hear it humming where you can hear the motor going so that's what they get rid of with the maglev it also reduces friction increases lifetime so those are some good points to come from it where they are pwm it also means that the lights now don't go dim the older SPS if you make the LED ones if you make 

them run slower where there are only three pin they are the lights went dim as well it's always something the like the what can I can open it like not the designer in me sometimes I wanted my fans to be lit up really nicely and you'd have to turn them all up to get the right picture or that please understand you know what I'm going with this so these they stay nice and bright all the time now that may not sue everyone but that's why we have the ones without the LEDs for those of you out there might want a super stealthy rig that's not going to keep you awake or you don't have to put a blanket over it like a parrot to keep it quiet or you know not you know 

darken it down at night so we've got those options now they're not the cheapest fans in the world at all so if you're here hoping to pick up one of these five quid then really I'd stop the video because otherwise you're going to end up complaining at the end the 120s come in each and you can get the non led ones  each or you can get them for a dual pack so the the non led ones you can get a deal with the dual pack so I've not found any deals on dual packs for the led ones yet so innocently that puts the fans up there with things like the not to a server grade fans and they do have quite a range as well for 

the old PWM these are more kind of these are almost like you've got the erm I've wanted quarter to half PWM fans for ages because the 3-pin is just got to the point now where even they're the newer cooler fans and the case fans have been coming in with PWM we've not had any like proper aftermarket ones to be able to like pimp our rigs with with PWM set we can use a PWM controller or you know just get things tuned right now I'm a bit of a silence freak anyway so I really kind of like these in the fact that you can spin them right back down and you can set them to go up gradually they're going to look like the same brightness all times that's all well and good so I I would say that most cases going to have two fans in front one in the back 

and two in the roof that means if you want to change the fans of these it's a hundred-pound upgrade and it's a huge upgrade for air and one thing I would say is the way I kind of see them is it gives you that range so that you can have them quiet but the the high rpm side of it is really more about using them for like benchmarking and stuff we did see with the tests that we did that they do keep performing well as even as the the speed goes up whereas with the vardas it tailed off a little bit more these actually kept going up as you saw with the 2400 2200 rpm it was a good two degrees different so you get better and they do keep pummeling it through so the 

blade design and the technology is there but you've obviously if you make them spin really quick through a radiator you're going to get noise so you just have to keep those points all in mind so really I'm going to give them the OSI 3d Innovation Award for the Maglev and I literally to show you at the length that I went to I did try and film them the way that they said to do which was I have a microphone a meter away and stuff but to be honest with the order I've ended up having to make get loads of different fans out and it just turned into a bit of a 

pain in the bottom for a set of fans when really all you lot want to know is colors speed will they call my radiator and how much they are so you've got all of that yeah they're a bit expensive you are going to have to decide that even though I think  is a lot of money for a single fan but I did find those nock to it they were like each so poor tariff kind of jumped into the proper high-end premium end of the found market which does mean they're not going to be for everyone and I'm sure there are going to be all the trolls and the fanboys in the comments going absolutely crazy but you know it just means that they're just not for you you 

can't have a fan that is going to be you know have this kind of design and everything but then still be 5 quid these aren't you kind of cheap fans so you can debate and argue and fanboy till your heart's content underneath review but for the mag left side of things but I actually think compared to the old is and SPS yeah genius tongue I actually think that these are look so much nicer the the curve kind of cage I really got on board with I'm not too sure about the interchangeable plastic things on the outside yet we'll have to see out how easy Corsair 

make those for us to purchase but an undoubted and Innovation Award winner for that bearing and I look forward to seeing them being used in rigs going forward have to admit on in two minds now because I'm currently specking up my own system and I have to admit that when I look at these and the way they light I'm I'm drawn to them and when they're being run it kind of like 500 rpm 1,200 I personally see that as being perfect kind of silent system water cooling mode because that's the other thing to think about with these they are ESPYs so if you're a 

water cooler out there and you're going to have a couple of banks or radios or something like that and you're looking for a fan that you can spin right down but still look good that's where they kind of like tickle my fancy but I will let you decide what you think and I would love to hear from you about it.



Learn more about the Corsair CO-9050078-WW

ModelBrandCorsairSeriesML140 PRO RGBModelCO-9050078-WW
DetailsTypeCase FanCompatibilityCaseFan Size140mmBearing TypeMagnetic Levitation BearingRPM400 - 1200 RPM +/- 10%Air Flow55.4 CFMNoise Level20.4 dBAPower Connector4 PinColorBlackLEDRGB
FeaturesFeaturesMagnetic Levitation Bearing: Dramatically reduces bearing friction by magnetically levitating the fan blade, producing lower noise and higher performance.

Dynamic RGB Lighting: Four independent ultra-bright center-mounted RGB LEDs output a vivid blast of light and color.

Control, Customize and Sync: The included CORSAIR Lighting Node PRO enables stunning dynamic lighting effects with other CORSAIR LINK supported devices.

Complete PWM Control: Dynamically control fan speed from 400 RPM to 1,200 RPM to minimize noise or maximize airflow.

Built to Last: Long lifespan with a five-year warranty.

Replaceable Corner Caps: Customize your build with replaceable corners (sold separately).
Dimensions & WeightDimensions140.00 x 140.00 x 25.00 mm x 2pcs
Package ContentsPackage Contents2 x Fans
1 x RGB Lighting Hub
1 x CORSAIR Lighting Node PRO
8 x Fan Mounting Screws
2 x Mounting Strips for Lighting Node PRO.

Corsair ML140 PRO 140mm Premium Magnetic Levitation RGB LED PWM Fan(CO-9050078-WW)

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