Arctic
Arctic P12 PWM PST
$12.99Cheaper
Best Case Fans · head-to-head
A sourced, side-by-side comparison. Arctic P12 PWM PST is cheaper at $12.99. Every spec and price links to its source.
Arctic
$12.99Cheaper
Lian Li
$36
The Lian Li UNI FAN TL 140 wins 1 of the 1 specs we compare head to head; the other wins 0. The Arctic P12 PWM PST is the cheaper at $12.99. Get the Lian Li UNI FAN TL 140 for the stronger spec sheet, the Arctic P12 PWM PST to spend less.
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The numbers that decide it, drawn to scale — longer bar wins, the accent bar is the stronger figure.
✓ marks the stronger figure where "more" — or "less", for price and weight — is unambiguously better.
| Spec | | |
|---|---|---|
| US price | $12.99 | $36 |
| Brand | Arctic | Lian Li |
| Released | — | — |
| Fan size (mm) | 120 | 140 |
| Thickness (mm) | 25 | 28 |
| Max airflow (CFM) | 56.3 | 103.9 |
| Max static pressure mm h2 o | 2.2 | 2.34 |
| Max speed (rpm) | 1800 | 1800 |
| Min speed (rpm) | 200 | 200 |
| Max noise dba | — | 29 |
| Bearing type | fluid-dynamic | fluid-dynamic |
| Connector type | 4-pin-pwm | proprietary |
| Lighting | none | argb |
| Mtbf hours | — | — |
| Weight grams | 145 | — |
Sources — Arctic P12 PWM PST: arctic.de (verified 2026-07-11). Lian Li UNI FAN TL 140: lian-li.com (verified 2026-07-11).
Where the two actually differ on the specs we track (6 of 12). Matching specs are omitted.
Sourced tester consensus for each — the "what people who used it think" layer, not just specs.
No sourced tester review yet.
Only one whitelisted tester covered it: Tom's Hardware's hands-on of the UNI FAN TL line, mostly the LCD variant, with no cooling or noise testing. It praises daisy-chain wiring that cuts cable clutter but flags six-pin PCIe power and being unable to mix LCD and non-LCD fans in one chain. Exact TL 140 lab tests fall outside the whitelist. (1 sourced review.)
Praised: Daisy-chain Uni Fan cabling drastically reduces the number of wires to route and hide when installing several fans.
Flagged: Controller box requires a six-pin PCIe power connector (plus SATA for stability), hard to spare in GPU-heavy builds; LCD and non-LCD TL fans cannot be mixed on the same daisy-chain to the controller box.