Photos and Features
Be quiet sent over both their 140mm PWM high-speed and 120mm PWM High-speed Light Wings White fans. Both of the boxes have be quiet’s normal black background with the be quiet logo up in white and orange. In the center, they have a picture of the triple fan of fans which with the white stands out on the black background and has their RGB lighting lit up. Then below that the main Light Wings White model name is in all caps and the specific model is below that in bold. They have the specifications listed on the side which is always great to see for anyone shopping in retail. Then on the back, they just have the UPC and a picture of the fan from the back that also shows off the lighting on the back.
When you open up the Light Wings White boxes, they both have a white box up on top with the be quiet branding and ARGB HUB in the middle but the boxes are sized specifically to the fan sizes to cover the entire top. Under that, each fan is packaged in its own cardboard tray with the wiring tucked up under a cardboard flap that holds the fan in place and keeps it from moving around. These have a small tab on top to help pull them out or you can flip the box upside down.
Both fan sizes have the same contents inside of the box that was on top even though the box is differently sized for each fan size. You have your documentation which includes a legal paper and a paper with a list of what should be inside the box. There is also a large double-sided tape to use on the included hub. There are four small baggies of screws. Three of those, the foggy plastic bags, are all your standard course fan screws in black. Then the fourth bag are small mounting screws for the ARGB hub. You get one sleeved white cable which has a standard addressable RGB plug on one end and a smaller connection on the other, this plugs the hub into your motherboard. Then you have the hub itself which is also bright white to match everything. The top of the hub has the be quiet branding on top and each of the 6 LED plugs which run on both sides have labels on the top as well. The hub has one white cable that is always attached which connects to SATA power, the small RGB cable plugs in next to this as well. The bottom of the hub just has a sticker with the model number on it four screws that hold the plastic case together and then four threaded screw holes that work with the included screws, to use this mounting option you have to have four holes in whatever you are mounting to and access to both sides to run the screws through. With no USB connection or any fan plugs, this isn’t a full controller at all, it just links all of the lighting for the fans together and gives the power needed.
The be quiet Light Wings White 140mm and 120mm fans are nearly the same feature-wise, but I am going to take a look at the 140mm high-speed first then the 120mm here in just a minute to keep the pictures from getting mixed up. The fan design is a lot like the other be quiet designs, at least when it comes to the blade design. The Light Wing fans have 9 blades which have big waves molded into them and if you look closely the blades also have a texture as well. For the all-white model, the blades are bright white as is the housing. The only thing not white is the light grey sticker in the center with the be quiet logo in a darker grey and the translucent ring around the fan opening for the lighting. The ring is thicker than a lot of RGB fans have which should mean the lighting is even more visible and the outer housing shape sinks in on the top and sides but levels back up in the corners where the fan has large rubber anti-vibration pads which are also a matching white.
The back of the Light Wings White has the same white rubber anti-vibration pads in the corners as the front but the overall shape is completely different. The thick light diffuser is gone and that ring on the back is mostly part of the main structure but they do have thin light diffusers that run around the outside on the back but they split where each of the mounts for the motor land on the housing. In the center, the back has a light grey sticker with the model information as well and this lets us know that the 140mm model runs at up to 2200 RPM. To push that the Light Wings have a 4-pole fan motor with a rifle bearing. The overall life expectancy is 60,000 hours when running at 25°c. When running at 2200 RPM the Light Wings 140mm high-speed pushes 71.7 CFM with 2.3mm H2O and their specs show it running at 31 decibels in their testing.
For the cables the Light Wings White have two cables, both are completely bright white including the connections. They also both use flat cables which are easier to work with and hide. For connections, there are three. One cable handles the 4-pin PWM fan connection and the other two are both for the addressable RGB lighting, one to get lighting and the other to pass through to another fan for daisy chaining.
The side view, looking around at all four sides has a few things going on. In the corners where the fan housing rases up over the light ring, it is hollowed out when you look from the sides. They also have the be quiet logo on two of the sides with the other two having arrows that let you know which way the fan turns and the air flows. The biggest thing from the side view however has to be just how much you can see the translucent light ring which means the lighting will be visible from the sides which is good.
I did also get the Light Wings 140mm on the scale because my first impression was just how strong and heavy the fan felt and it weighed in at 264 grams with the wires. This was a little over the 251 grams that it was listed in the specifications but it did confirm that it does have a surprising amount of weight to it.
The overall styling and design of the Light Wings White 120mm high-speed is the same as the 140mm high-speed model, the one big difference in the overall size. But when scaled down the scaling of things does change a little. The light diffuser ring that goes around the front ends up looking a little thicker and it is already thicker than most RGB fans. The center housing where the motor is hidden away is the same size as on the 140mm so all of the size difference comes down to shorter fan blades. But the blade count is still at 9 and they have the same twist, the same waves on the blades, and a texture to the plastic when you look closely. The 120mm does however change up its specs. The RPM is higher running at 2500 RPM whereas the 140mm is 2200 RPM. It has the same 60,000-hour estimated lifespan and surprisingly even with the higher RPM be quiet has the noise levels at the same 31 decibels from their testing. For airflow, the 120mm pushes 52.3 CFM to 71.7 of the larger model. But with the higher RPM, it also has a higher air pressure with the 120mm at 2.6mm of H2O to 2.3mm on the 140mm.
Like with the front, the back of the Light Wings White 120mm high-speed has the same bright white rubber anti-vibration pads on all four corners. The model information is on the center sticker and even with a higher RPM, this model is also running the same rifle bearings which is how it manages to get the same 60,000-hour lifespan.
While smaller the 120mm Light Wings White doesn’t have anything different from the 140mm model on the outside edges. We have the same be quiet logos on two sides and arrows that show the direction that the fan spins and the airflow direction on the other two sides.
While smaller than the 140mm model, the 120mm high-speed has a lot of weight to it as well and on our scale came in at 214 grams which is a lot closer to the 210 grams that the be quiet specs have it at.
