Alphacool Announces the Rise Aurora 120mm Fan

btarunr · Jun 24, 2021

Alphacool presents the Rise Aurora 120 mm, a powerful and PWM controllable fan that also features brilliant Digital RGB LED lighting. The Alphacool Rise Aurora fan allows for an impressive airflow of 118.9 m³/h and has high static pressure of 3.17 mm/H₂O. Due to this, the fan is ideally suited for operation on radiators or as a particularly strong case fan. Thanks to the 4-pin PWM connector, the fan can be controlled over the speed range from 0 to 2600 rpm. At 0% PWM control, the fan can be stopped completely. A soft start at start-up increases the life of the fan and reduces the risk of injury. At low speed, the fan is almost silent and provides significant energy savings.

The unique and classy lighting is created by 20 digitally addressable 5 V RGB LEDs distributed across the frame and on hub. Thanks to recessed diffusers, the light is evenly distributed, spot illumination is avoided, and individual LEDs are no longer recognizable. The digital aRGB LED lighting is controlled via a JST 3-pin connector. An adapter can be used to allow you to attach the fan to motherboards and controllers.

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Space Lynx · Jun 24, 2021

Having experienced many fans over the years, my two favorite brands are Noctua and Arctic. My old Arctic e34 duo cooler had two Arctic fans (forget the name) even at 100% they really weren't loud at all and they moved air good...

NZXT has my favorite fan for radiators/exhaust case though, the Aer-P. I love the blade design on it, very neat.

If the price is right these might be decent. Looks like a good implementation of RGB if your into that, lot of fans do a bad job of it.

kayjay010101 · Jun 24, 2021

Impressive specs and decent price. Would love a review comparing this to Noctua's A12x25 and Arctic's P12.

ZoneDymo · Jun 24, 2021

"At low speed, the fan is almost silent and provides significant energy savings."

yeah....like almost every fan? or product for that matter? or do they mean to say that at low speeds it pushes significantly more air then other fans?

EddyAlphacool · Jun 24, 2021

@ZoneDymo
To be honest.... its a PR.... so you try to talk about every feature you have. Same with PWM..... its a feature but its harder to find fans without PWM than with PWM right now.

Chaitanya · Jun 24, 2021

3.5W for LEDs is abusurd, in power budget of LEDs for single fan its possible to run pair of BeQuite or Noctua fans.

EddyAlphacool · Jun 24, 2021

20 aRGB LEDs need some power ;-)

turbogear · Jun 24, 2021

kayjay010101 said:
Impressive specs and decent price. Would love a review comparing this to Noctua's A12x25 and Arctic's P12.

I agree. Good specs and cheaper than EK Vardar.

I would like to add if somebody reviews this fan maybe EK Vardar Evo 120ER could be added to the fans to compare to which has similar specs. :rolleyes:

I own 6 of those Vardars fans on my radiators.

EK-Vardar EVO 120ER RGB (500-2200 rpm)

EK-Vardar EVO 120ER RGB is a high-static pressure computer cooling fan, designed and built primarily for highest-performance computer liquid cooling systems. Its high-quality Dual-Ball bearing and the Start-Stop function ensure the lowest of noise emissions and a true 0db environment if your PC...

www.ekwb.com

lynx29 said:
Having experienced many fans over the years, my two favorite brands are Noctua and Arctic. My old Arctic e34 duo cooler had two Arctic fans (forget the name) even at 100% they really weren't loud at all and they moved air good...

NZXT has my favorite fan for radiators/exhaust case though, the Aer-P. I love the blade design on it, very neat.

If the price is right these might be decent. Looks like a good implementation of RGB if your into that, lot of fans do a bad job of it.

I also own a few Noctua NF-F12-PWM which are lying in cupboard now. They were replaced with EK Vardar on my rads.

The Vardar (2200rpm) has more performance than F12 (1500rpm). One thing that used to disturb me on F12 is that they had a particular humming noise tone at high speed which was annoying for my ears.

The Vardars has a different noise profile which is more comfortable to me even at 2200rpm compared to 1500rpm of F12. :laugh:

MEC-777 · Jun 24, 2021

All these RGB fans just look so cheap to me.

Space Lynx · Jun 24, 2021

turbogear said:
I agree. Good specs and cheaper than EK Vardar.
I would like to add if somebody reviews this fan maybe EK Vardar Evo 120ER could be added to the fans to compare to which has similar specs.
I own 6 of those Vardars fans on my radiators.

EK-Vardar EVO 120ER RGB (500-2200 rpm)

EK-Vardar EVO 120ER RGB is a high-static pressure computer cooling fan, designed and built primarily for highest-performance computer liquid cooling systems. Its high-quality Dual-Ball bearing and the Start-Stop function ensure the lowest of noise emissions and a true 0db environment if your PC...

www.ekwb.com

I also own a few Noctua NF-F12-PWM which are lying in cupboard now. They were replaced with EK Vardar on my rads.

The Vardar (2200rpm) has more performance than F12 (1500rpm). One thing that used to disturb me on F12 is that they had a particular humming noise tone at high speed which was annoying for my ears.
The Vardars has a different noise profile which is more comfortable to me even at 2200rpm compared to 1500rpm of F12.

I don't have my Noctua's anymore. Never owned a Vardar, but those are nice I hear.

AnarchoPrimitiv · Jun 24, 2021

I've seen this same exact fan under a half dozen different brand names on aliexpress

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Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Strix B450-E Gaming
Cooling	DeepCool Gammax L240 V2
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Storage	Western Digital Black NVMe 512GB
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Case	Corsair Carbide 100R
Audio Device(s)	ASUS SupremeFX S1220A
Power Supply	Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W
Mouse	ASUS ROG Strix Impact
Keyboard	Gamdias Hermes E2
Software	Windows 11 Pro

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Video Card(s)	ASUS RTX 3090 Strix OC
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Display(s)	Dell LG CX48 (custom res: 3840x1620@120Hz) + Acer XB271HU 2560x1440@144Hz
Case	Corsair 1000D
Audio Device(s)	Sennheiser HD599, Blue Yeti
Power Supply	Corsair RM1000i
Mouse	Logitech G502 Lightspeed
Keyboard	Corsair Strafe RGB MK2
Software	Windows 10 Pro 20H2

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Processor	Intel Core i7 2600k -> 12600k
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Cooling	Tuniq Tower 120 -> Custom Watercoolingloop
Memory	Corsair (4x2) 8gb 1600mhz -> Crucial (8x2) 16gb 3600mhz
Video Card(s)	AMD RX480 -> RX7800XT
Storage	Samsung 750 Evo 250gb SSD + WD 1tb x 2 + WD 2tb -> 2tb MVMe SSD
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Case	antec 600 -> Thermaltake Tenor HTCP case
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Mouse	Elecom EX-G
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Software	Windows 10 Pro 64bit

System Name	Work / Eddy 1 / Wive 2
Processor	i5-8500 / i7 13700kf / i9 12900k
Motherboard	They work, no super duper whatever.
Cooling	Eisbaer / Alphacool Enterprise stuff / Alphacool Enterprise stuff
Memory	16GB / 32 GB DDR5-5600 / 64GB DDR5-6000
Video Card(s)	4090 / 4080 / 2080TI
Storage	1TB SDD / 2TB M.2 + 2TB HDD / 2TB M.2 SSD + 1TB M.2 SSD
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Case	Jonsbo / TT TG6 White / TT TG6 Green
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Power Supply	400W / 1200W / 1200W
Mouse	Mionix Naos / Mionix Naos / Logitech
Keyboard	Logitech K740 / K740 / Craft

System Name	Work / Eddy 1 / Wive 2
Processor	i5-8500 / i7 13700kf / i9 12900k
Motherboard	They work, no super duper whatever.
Cooling	Eisbaer / Alphacool Enterprise stuff / Alphacool Enterprise stuff
Memory	16GB / 32 GB DDR5-5600 / 64GB DDR5-6000
Video Card(s)	4090 / 4080 / 2080TI
Storage	1TB SDD / 2TB M.2 + 2TB HDD / 2TB M.2 SSD + 1TB M.2 SSD
Display(s)	49" UWHQD / 32" UWHQD / 32" UWHQD
Case	Jonsbo / TT TG6 White / TT TG6 Green
Audio Device(s)	Audio? Monitor Speaker ...lol
Power Supply	400W / 1200W / 1200W
Mouse	Mionix Naos / Mionix Naos / Logitech
Keyboard	Logitech K740 / K740 / Craft

Alphacool Announces the Rise Aurora 120mm Fan

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EK-Vardar EVO 120ER RGB (500-2200 rpm)

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EK-Vardar EVO 120ER RGB (500-2200 rpm)

AnarchoPrimitiv

System Name	Main Machine
Processor	Intel i9-13900KS
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Apex
Cooling	Water cooling, 2x EK-DDC 3.2 PWM, 1x360mm+1x240mm+1x120mm EK, Mora 360 Pro, EK-Quantum Velocity 2
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Case	Cooler Master COSMOS C700P
Audio Device(s)	Turtle Beach Elite Pro Tournament + Elite Pro TAC
Power Supply	Corsair AX1600i 1600W Titanium
Mouse	Logitech G903 LIGHTSPEED Wireless
Keyboard	ROCCAT Ryos MK Pro
Software	Win 11

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Motherboard	MSI 970A Gaming
Cooling	Deepcool Gammaxx 400
Memory	8GB DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	RX-570 4GB
Storage	120GB SSD + 2x 1TB Barracuda's
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Power Supply	Cooler Master V650
Mouse	Logitech G402
Keyboard	Corsair K70 w/ MX-reds
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