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[OrangeRibbon]

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Well I hope you like the new place, only downside is it's a little further out from MSY for you to get cheap HDMI boxes!

or other Cheap junk like the following:
Review 2.

Armaggeddon Licht Dagger and Blade 120mm RGB fans Review.

Today we are having a look at 2 cheap 120mm RGB fans I bought from MSY.
They are available for $9 each from MSY Australia.
Link for the Dagger:
http://www.msy.com.au/fans-size-120mm/1 ... e-fan.html
Link for the Blade:
http://www.msy.com.au/fan/19874-armagge ... e-fan.html

I purchased these just to see how bad $9 RGB fans could be, I am also unsure if I am suppose to pronounce them as Light.. or LICKED, or LITCHED.

The packages:


Just some boxes with lots of colour.

The Contents:

With the Dagger you get a 120mm Fan
6 Screws (4 Standard Fan screws, and 2 Random ones for controller)
Molex power cable
LED change button
Fan controller board

With the Blade you get a 120mm Fan
4 Standard Fan screws
Molex power cable

The Fan controller of the Dagger:

The box touts you can use 2 extra Licht Blade fans
You can use 3 extra, it has 4 plugs ready to go, with space (and circuitry) for 2 more, just not plugs.
Has plugs for the Molex power, and the colour change switch. Weirdly, there is also a button Built into the board that has the sole purpose of turning all the leds Blue, and that's all this button does, if you want to turn them off again, you have to use the wired button.

Specs of these fans are limited (of course they are) But the box says:
Black Colour ABS Frame
Transparent ABS Blade
900 Spin/Sec
Built in 15 pcs LED
Used 7 colours LED

All seems pretty standard he... 900 Spins/second. HOLY SHIT!! We are looking at 54,000 RPM fans here! Screw 5400RPM.. I demand 54,000 RPM from my $9 fans thank you.

The LEDS:

7 colours, all in a ring around the blades.
These things are Bright, I seared my retinas each time I looked directly at them.







The box claims:
-1-6 single colour each step
-Colour Cycling mode
-Mixed colours strobe effect
-7 colours pulsating effect
-Lights off.

What you actually get is this:
1 light off
2 red pulsing
3 green pulsing
4 blue pulsing
5 yellowy green pulsing
6 light blue pulsing
7 purple pulsing
8 blueish white pulsing
9 Red Green Blue Seizure mode
10 multi colour pulsing.
And an easter Egg, solid blue if you hit the button on the fan control board.

And there is the biggest problem with these fans so far (We'll get to a bigger one in a minute) You can't have any solid colour other than blue.. Why did they think it was smart to have horrible yellow pulsing, but not solid Red, green or white LEDS

I know they're cheap (and it's possible this fan controller is screwy) but come on. RGB that can't do solid R or G

The Licht Blade:
And now we get onto the BIGGEST PROBLEM the fans have, and it's a pretty big one.
On the box for the Licht Dagger, it says you can pair it with the Licht blade.
And on the box for the licht Blade, it says pair with the Licht Dagger to control Lighting EFX.

Here is the blade.

See the problem? It's powered by it's own molex connector with no plug for the Licht Dagger fan controller. Plug it in, and you get colour cycles and that's it.
That is a pretty big oversight. In fact, Just buy all Licht Daggers, they're the same price as the blade anyway.
(The bade was taken back to MSY for a refund. I wanted to swap to another Dagger, but MSY Mitcham didn't have more Daggers in stock.)


Ok, so there's a few problems, but how do they measure up as actual Fans?

To be honest.. Not bad.
I haven't got Air flow meters or sound measurement devices to give you a conclusive result for which I apologise, so I'll have to compare it to some other fans I had laying around and you'll just have to take a gamble on my data (which will still be more accurate than The manufacturer)

This fan (Dagger and Blade have same performance) is pretty close to the Stock LED Fan that comes in a Thermaltake Chaser A21
http://www.thermaltake.com.au/products- ... C_00002125
Which Thermaltake list as the following:
120 x 120 x 25 mm Blue LED fan (1000rpm,16dBA)

Now when I say pretty close, I mean pretty close.
Airflow of both fans at full tilt was remarkably similar at equal distance of 1 foot from either hand.
Same as the sound levels. Right next to either ear They were almost Identical, in fact the Licht Dagger had less of a whine than the thermaltake and it feels to have slightly less vibration as well.

Next up I pitted it against a CoolerMaster Sikleflow
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/248 ... ed-led-fan
which I chose because they typically have the same asking price of $9.
Same test method again, both at max etc. The Licht was much quieter, but didn't put out quite the airflow.
Before I could finish my tests and take photos of this test the Coolermaster Died (No, Seriously, The coolermaster just stopped)
To be fair, the sikleflow was nearly 2 years old, and must have seen nearly one hundred full hours of use!
so it compares to cheap fans quite well.

But this is RGB.. how does it compare to those Fancy, more expensive RGB fans I hear you ask?
For this I Busted out one of my Thermaltake RIINGS Which are significantly more Expensive. The exact ones I used are here:
https://www.centrecom.com.au/thermaltak ... controller
so $75 currently.


So for less than half the cost, 3 of the Lichts will run you $27.
This may seem stupid to compare, but they are quite similar in function.
Both feature buttoned fan controller.
Both have rings of light.
The RIING controller can do 3 fans, The Licht can do 4.
um.. Thats it really. Full pelt I couldn't hear the RIING over the Licht. Lichts are Airflow, RIINGS are static pressure.

In summary:
The licht have the direct advantage of lighting up like a small sun
If you put a few of these in a case, You'd see your beautiful computer in all its glory.

It's just a shame that they are let down by the Fan controller.
With no speed option (you could put a manual dial inline to fix this I guess) and not being able to do solid RGB colours (well it can do Blue).

ARMAGGEDDON also have Red and Blue variants for $5, I assume they're of a similar, Decent quality.
http://www.msy.com.au/viconline/fans-si ... e-fan.html
http://www.msy.com.au/viconline/fans-si ... e-fan.html

I would purchase These Licht fans above The cheap Coolermaster and Thermaltake options. or basically anything from Aerocool.
So the Licht Dagger is cheap, but not as Nasty as I was expecting.
I will personally buy a couple more, I went to MSY Clayton who also only had one, which I grabbed and this was in a different box to my original

The controller functions exactly the same, so the first wasn't faulty, They just don't do solid colours other than blue. But both fans work on either controller.
They're as cheap as Sikleflows, and also have limited RGB functionality. I wanna see how much I can light up my computer with it full of them.


Written and compiled by FIREWIRE1394 for
BLUEGUERILLA:
http://www.bg.blueguerilla.org/
and
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http://forums.overclockers.com.au/
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Cheers.




TLDR:
Only purchase the Licht Dagger, Blade is worthless and incompatible for the same $9
On par with cheap Coolermaster and Thermaltake offerings.
Really bright leds, but Blue is your only solid Lit colour.
No speed control.
$9 RGB, perfect to add some tacky flair to a cheap computer or replace failing cheap fans (leds can be turned off)


Review 3 will be live soon. A day or 2.

[ian]

Cool Review. I'm gonna go check out the sites for more awesome reviews like this one!

(Would be a lot better if I had a character account, but sadly, I don't)

[Skynet]

Needs more pictures of fans with lights.