Razer - Kunai Chroma RGB 120MM LED PWM Performance Fans - 3 Fans - Black

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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Less RGB is more!

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  These can move a lot of air! I honestly wasn't expecting these to be as good as they are. I just really liked the aesthetics! Looks really clean in my PC.

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  Posted 2 years ago by Javier

• Rated 2 out of 5 stars

  Excellent Cooling Performance, but...

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  Does it offer good value? In my opinion, no. Setting aside the value question for a moment, the initial impression was the packaging was certainly first rate. The 3-Pack of Kunai Chroma RGB Performance Fans contained three fans and with fasteners which come nicely packed in a beautiful box, with a fold out manual and some cool stickers -- not gaudy, but subtle and nicely designed to add a bit of class to any PC case (or even elsewhere). The fasteners include 4 standard short, metal screws, to attach the fan to the case, as well as 5 rubber screws which in concert to the pads on the fand help isolate any vibration transferring from the fan to the case. The fans themselves feel solid and well built. The frame and the fan blades are both black, with an RGB ring on both the front and back of the fans. The seven blade fans spin at speed up to 2200 RPM, and are pretty quite until you start exceeding about 15-1600 RPM where you start hearing the movement of air. There is no mechanical noise; just the sound of air moving at a fast rate. The RBG is a single ring around the fan blades which illuminate on both sides of the fan. The lighting is subtle, and the LEDs are not overly bright. The fans themselves to not illuminate. Depending on your preferences, this can be a good or bad thing. If 'subtle' is you're thing, these will likely please you, but if you're after bright, active lighting they'll likely disappoint. They offer 3-pin RGB connections. If all you have are 4-pin connectors, you're out of luck unless you purchase some type of adapter/controller. Each fans actually have three wires for connectivity; one for the 4-pin PWM control, one for 3-pin aRGB control, and one wire which allows you to daisychain a single motherboard 3-pin across all three fans. RGB lighting will need to be controlled from the motherboard software, as the Razer Synapse software will not conntect to the fans without Razer's' fan/rgb controller, which is sold seperately. I tested the Razer - Kunai Chroma RGB 120MM LED PWM Performance Fans in a custom liquid cooled system, replacing 3 generic RGB fans cooling the radiator. The coolant temp dropped 8°C, the overclocked liquid cooled RTX 3080FE GPU temp dropped 7°C, and the GPU VRAM 8°C while under 100% load, putting it in the upper tier of performance for cooling fans. No complaints there whatsoever. So let's get back to my major complaint - lack of value. Sure, the performance is excellent, but at what cost? The MSRP of the 3-pack is the highest of any I've seen, and unlike other high-end packs from other vendors, it contains neither an RGB or Fan controller. My favorite fan kit has an MSRP around 25% lower and INCLUDES a fan/lighting controller. It did not require me to purchase anything additional. This is why I consider it a terrible value. Despite the excellent performance of the Razer - Kunai Chroma RGB 120MM LED PWM Performance Fan, you can get just as good if not better performance for substantially less from more than one vendor. Another consideration is while the 3 fans required 9 wires, my favorite fans have a single sheath of wire, with two connectors at the end, to power and control three fans. With the Razer Kunai, I have to manage NINE cables for the three radiator fans. That's awful from a cable management perspective. If money/value is no concern whatsover, and you like the subtle lighting effects with no option for the blades to illuminate, you'll certainly appeciate the performance of these fans. If money/value does impact your decision making, look elsewhere. You can get fans with as much performance, with better RGB lighting and cable management for a lot less. You won't get the cool stickers though.

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  Posted 3 years ago by hahanson

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Superbly over-engineered w/surprisingly subtle RGB

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  Razer is a brand typically associated with products that simply ooze with gamer aesthetic. That's why these Kunai Chroma fans kind of surprised me because the onboard LED lighting is actually pretty subdued--it's bright, but it only illuminates in a ring around the circumference of the fan blades--there is no hub lighting, and the LEDs do not illuminate the fan blades themselves. If you like that effect, then you're going to love the performance that accompanies it...and the fact that this is one of the few RGB fans that looks as good in pull-configuration as in push. I have a full-sized tower with 140mm Noctua fans (ugly) up front lit with a pair of Phanteks Halo ARGB rings (beautiful). My CPU is cooled with an MSI MAG Coreliquid 240mm cooler with two MSI hub-lit ARGB fans. The 120mm MSIs have white translucent fan blades and look stunning in push configuration. However, my tower was designed such that a top-mounted radiator must be installed with the fans in pull-configuration because there is no way to snake the cooling block and coolant tubes down through topmost mounting plate if you wanted to mount the fans below the radiator. This left me using the MSI fans in pull-configuration--they still light up the top of my case, but the backsides of the fans are a bit ugly and the hub-mounted LEDs are actually jammed right up against the base of the frames so I can see the square LEDs themselves through the gaps in the fan assemblies. Sadly, I can't use the Phanteks Halos on any top-mounted fans because the added height won't allow me to reinstall the dust screen. Enter the Kunai...one of the few high-performing fans I've found with RGB lighting that looks just as good from the back as it does from the front. Personally, I kind of dig the more understated RGB design of the Kunai Chroma--diffusion of the LEDs through the rings is bright but smooth and continuous, unlike the Phanteks Halos where you can very easily spot the pinpoint bright spots of each edge-mounted LED. Sound output is minimal though obviously not quite in the same league as something like a whisper-quiet Noctua that's designed for stealth from the ground-up. Higher RPMs thankfully only yield a louder woosh of air movement rather than additional mechanical noise from the fans themselves--well done, Razer! Performance is excellent with just slightly better stats than the MSI's RGB fans when used on a radiator as opposed to straight airflow through the case: MSI 120mm ARGB twin ball-bearing fan: 500-2000 RPM, 0.23-2.39 mmH2O, 14.3-34.3 dBA, 21.63-78.73 CFM Razer Kunai 120mm RGB hydraulic​ fan: 500-2200 RPM​, 0.15-2.47 mmH2O​, 15-35 dBA, ​17.48-65.5 CFM​ The fans themselves have eschewed the typical boxy fan frame for a sleeker, near-frameless circular design that actually looks pretty darned cool in practice. The mounting holes have built-in anti-vibration grommets with recesses large enough to allow you to countersink a pass-through screw so that the screw heads sit below the upper surface of the fan. The fan assembly feels substantial; I almost thought the frame must be made of metal when I first started pulling one from the box! The PWM cable is braided (nice) and Razer thoughtfully provides two completely separate RGB cables, one with a male 3-pin plug end, the other with a female 3-pin plug. This makes it MUCH easier to daisy chain other fans or RGB components throughout different areas of the case because you're not limited to using a super-short daisy-chain stub dangling at the end of a single RGB cable. Each fan also includes 4 case screws and 4 really long screwless anti-vibration mounts. My MSI Z590 motherboard uses Mystic Light for RGB control...thankfully, Razer Chroma RGB support is made available to Mystic Light through the Razer Synapse package and SDK. I was hoping not to have to install yet another software package, but such is the price we pay for our toys. I do wish the Synapse overhead wasn't quite so high though--once installed, Razer had 9 separate Windows processes running and consuming about 340MB of memory, and I wasn't even using Chroma Studio to program the fans' lighting effects! Granted, this really isn't that much in the way of resource hogging, but a little more elegant and low-overhead software solution would always be preferable. Overall though, I am incredibly pleased with the Kunai Chroma fans...they are well-built, quiet, high-performing fans that offer a touch of "classy RGB" (if there is such a thing), as opposed to blasting your room with imprecise, scatter-shot, over-the-top RGB glow in every direction. Whether limiting those RGB effects to the fan's outer rings reduces or increases the value proposition of the Kunai Chromas is obviously a matter of personal taste and style, but the cooling performance (especially for higher static-pressure situations), fit-and-finish, and build-quality are definitely top-notch.

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  Posted 3 years ago by WyldeBlue