Overall and Final Verdict
Be quiet is up in my top two for fans because they never compromise on overall quality or performance and unlike Noctua be quiet hasn’t been slow to accept the move to aesthetics being important too with them having blacked out fans the entire time and white being an option as well. The addition of lighting with their Light Wing fans just continued that trend and the new Light Wing White fans do the same. The Light Wing White fans are heavy and solid and when it comes to noise performance they were in a completely different class compared to the always popular Uni-Fans from Lian Li. They also offer a 3-year warranty whereas Lian Li with the Uni-Fans and Corsair both have 2-year warranties. This doesn’t compare to the warranties you can get on non-RGB fans with Noctua having 6 years and be quiet themselves having 5 years. For this being their first line of RGB fans they did a great job of having a lot of light with the extra thick light ring and making sure to have it visible from every side including the back not only that but with the white design specifically the RGB lights up the entire white housing.
The Light Wings White high-speed fans did have their downsides. Like with a lot of the older RGB fan designs from other companies, you do have a mess of cables to deal with both with the standard fan cables and RGB cables as well. Be quiet helped some with each fan being daisy chainable as well as the included hub, but once you start comparing it with some of the latest fans which have cutting down the wiring in mind there is still room to improve. The hub isn’t a full controller as well which may be a little confusing to some. Corsair for example and some other companies use a controller to handle all of their lighting but be quiet is passing all of that on to your motherboard, so you will need to make sure you have a header for that available. The other big issue is that all of the Light Wings White fans, unlike the black models, are only available in triple packs. It doesn’t matter if you get 120mm or 1400mm sizes on the standard or high-speed models they are all only available in triple packs. So if you need 4 fans or if your case needs just one 120mm or 140mm fan along with three of the others you will have to buy a whole triple pack to accomplish that.
As far as pricing is concerned the 120mm 3 pack will cost you $79.90 and the larger 140mm size is $84.90. It doesn’t matter if you get the high-speed model like we have here or the standard model the pricing is the same there. That puts the Light Wings fans around $10 less than the Uni-Fans and a lot lower than Corsairs pricing. You don’t get a controller which would normally make the pricing lower, but the build construction is also a lot higher as well putting the Light Wings in their own class altogether. So if you are looking for RGB fans but aren’t willing to compromise on noise, this is the only way to go.
Live Pricing:
Light Wings White 120mm PWM high-speed Triple Pack
Light Wings White 140mm PWM high-speed Triple Pack
