There is not such thing as "airflow fnas" or "pressure fans" Both have airflow and pressure ratings. What makes air flow is creating higher pressure air. Higher pressure air move into lower pressure air creating airflow. Arctic F have lower static pressure rating than Arctic P. Marketing is often not the truth or accurate. Marketing is all about convincing people to buy their product over another. Truth and facts only get in the way of many marketing stratagies. Corsiar said to mount their CLC radiators as intake when reality it's better to have them as exhasut so case air stays cooler. but mounting radiator as intake means it's getting coolest possible air so CPU (or GPU it's cooling has lower temps. Problem is most everything else runs hotter becuase case airflow is being warmed by heat coming off of radiator, especially when CPU is under heavy load.
Mohterboard manufacturers sometimes list the amp rating of fan headers labeled for pump. I can't remember any giving amp rating of all fan headers.
Arctic P seem to be decent fans considering their price. Noctua are not a quiet fan, but be quiet Silent Wings 3 are pretty much the best. My guess is you got the 1000rpm models, not the 1600rpm high speed ones. Arctic P14 are 1700rpm. The faster most fans spin the more air they flow, so of course if you were running boht at full speed to check airflow SW3 at 1000rpm or even 1600rpm would be quieter with less airflwo than P14 at 1700rpm
Data is often manipulated to show things that are not at all truthful.
Some people don't what to know the truth or look at facts supporting the truth. That's their choice. I want to know the truth and see factual data to support it.
Example of how marketing is not truthful. Arctic website says
"Arctic P-fans - Ideal for heatsinks
In internal tests we measured increased static pressure up to to 33 % for the P-fans compared to the F-fans. With the P-fans, a higher level of cooling is achieved, especially with increased air resistance (on radiators, heatsinks, or close meshed fan grilles on housings). Fans of the P-family are therefore particularly suitable for use on heatsinks."
"Arctic F-fan - high airflow
The F-Series fans, in contrast, are optimized for high airflow and, in cases of low air resistance, transport a large amount of air. They are thus especially ideal as case fans.
The operating noise of the F-fans is very similar to White Noise, which is generally perceived as a neutral and unobtrusive background noise."
There is a huge difference betwen the resistance of a raidator and the resistance of an air cooler. But even a think radiator is about the same or less resistance than many case front grill and fitlers are. Case front grill and filter create about twice as much resiistance, maybe more than air coolers' 4-8x 6mm heatpipes and 40-50x 0.3mm thick fins.
Siverstone did a study of grills patterns and their resistance to airflow. As shown in link below even a round wire grill lowers airflow about 29%, and a grill with small round holes in case metal restrict 71% compared to not grill at all.
https://www.silverstonetek.com/techtalk_cont.php?tid=wh_chessis&area=usa
https://www.silverstonetek.com/techtalk_cont.php?tid=wh_chessis&area=usa
