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what is up guys Jays two cents here and it is getting damn hot where I live here in Southern California we are getting well over a hundred degrees every single day which i think is 32 degrees Celsius I could be wrong I'm sorry guys I just don't know and I got to thinking we've talked about radiators and we've talked about acrylic and PPG tubing we've talked a little bit about fluid and water blocks and all that sort of stuff but we have not spent enough time on Vance because its face it what good is a awesome loop do you if you have shitty-ass fans pushing air through your radiator keeping the cooling capacity lower than it really could be so today we're gonna take a look at two new products here from fractal design this is their venturi line of fans brand spankin new we really get the hf 14 and the HP 14 i'm gonna assume the F stands for air flow and I'm gonna assume the P stands for air pressure now I went to college to be able to to decipher that so stay in school kids last year I took a look at the game zero gaming headset from Sennheiser and my friends over at mass drop have just lined up a price drop for this exact headset so head on over to mass drop check out the link in the description and you guys can save some money on the game zero Sennheiser headphones now both of these fans feature a fluid dynamic bearing and and you know what really kind of sets fans apart from each other are their bearing designs and it's actually important to note depending on how you were going to mount your fan the orientation it's going to be in means that certain bearing types may or may not perform well and/or could even damage your fan for instance some fans and this thing actually is really tight in this box I'm totally ripping it apart yep I ripped it sorry Josh you guys have made the packaging Jay proof there we go wow that is a weighty fan if you guys ever pick up a fan it just feels light and cheap well that's not the case here all right so we were talking about bearings this is a fluid dynamic bearing some bearings depending on the kite there's a sleeve bearing there's ball bearing there's fluid dynamic bearing sometimes it's actually not recommended to mount certain fans in certain directions depending on the bearing type so this is a fluid dynamic bearing which means that the actual shaft itself I said shaft the shaft itself is being surrounded by fluid now fractal design has actually spent a lot of time on the bearing type on these fans to make them extremely low resistance which is going to help with noise and power consumption of the fan but it also means that they're going to be very very well lubricated and it's going to keep the lifespan of the fan at its max now there's also a magnet inside here that is going to kind of offset some of the forces that happen when the blades are moving who said every action has an opposite and equal reaction but that holds true for the fans too you've got these blades that are going around catching air and moving air one direction well you can't have the air moving that way if you're not having equal pressure pushing back this way because the only way that the air is gonna move one direction is because it's being pushed which takes force so it has a magnet inside the bearing and in the hub that is gonna counteract a lot of that force which would normally push just a standard cheapo fan back against the hub housing which would cause rubbing and wear so they're actually combating that again for noise and longevity of the fan the last thing I want to mention about their hub which is again found in both of these fans and their fluid dynamic bearing is that there are channels and grooves inside there which are gonna allow the fluid to have room to move around the shaft and get a nice uniform coating again on the show you know this is this is one of those videos where I could just go apeshit with the jokes but then again I would get all the hate comments so I'll just let you guys take it from here but you get a nice equal distribution of fluid around the bearing and around the shaft which is going to keep it extremely smooth in fact some fans when I turn the blade and I know this freaks some people out some people get all like oh my god don't spin with your fingers well you know the world isn't exploding right now so but it's very very low resistance some fans if you turn them you can just feel they almost feel a little brandy or just not super smooth well this is I mean you you barely touch that look how long that spins so anyway this is the airflow fan here it's got nice rubber isolating mounts on here as you can see these bad boys just pop off now why would that matter why on earth would you care about that well because as you can see here they actually include a couple of different mounting sets on here and guess what now a hundred and forty millimeter fan as long as you put these on can now mount into a 120 millimeter spot and it becomes basically just a round fanned at that point so you have a single fan 140 millimeter that can mount into 140 or 120 millimeter fan locations that is something I really really like to see I'm not aware of many fans on the market that can do that obviously as you can see here this rubber mounting is also going to cause vibration reduction and noise reduction when it comes to the the vibration of the fan being transferred into the case or the radiator or whatever you haven't mounted so that is the airflow fan effect if I can get this stupid thing back in because the rubber on this thing is actually really tight the other thing I want to point out on here is that they use a very high grade casing for this fan in the fan shroud it's very very sturdy it doesn't feel like it's gonna flex around like many other fans do all right so really that's not an application issue that's just the j' ism having a hard time putting rubber in the in the groove there which is just kind of ironic makes me wonder how the heck I ever got two kids out of the deal alright so included with the packaging you also get a voltage reducer so this is gonna allow you to slow this the fan speed down as well if you don't have it hooked up to any sort of a fan controller so now we'll just kind of take a quick look over here at the static pressure version of the fan this does appear to be a pwm fan the airflow fan here is a three pin this looks like it's gonna be a PWM because it actually has a PWM splitter yes the static pressure fan is a PWM so they're a little bit different they're exact same fluid dynamic bearing design same accessories come with the fan and once we pull this thing out of here you'll see that the fan blade shape is obviously that of static pressure optimized so what that means is you're gonna I'm just gonna rip the Box open and I don't even care I don't even care anymore just whatever find something to put it in alright so as you can see the fan blades are much bigger there's less fan blades but there's also less gap between the fan blades so if you look at the airflow fan here on top versus the static pressure fan here on the bottom you can see that there's very little room for the air to go once the fan blade actually scoops it whereas the airflow fan has a much more straight airflow through the blade where the static pressure fan scoops it and really sends it out the sides of the fan under much higher pressure which is how it can push through radiators and things so why don't we go ahead and take the static pressure fan we'll mount that one to a radiator and then we'll go ahead and do an airflow test real quick here with the 140 millimeter airflow fan we'll just see how much air it's moving and how loud the damn thing is what do you think sound like a good idea alright let's do it all right so as you can see I have my mic unhooked here because I'm gonna be using it to kind of listen to different points of the fan to get noise so first up is 140 millimeter version this is a three pin not a PWM we'll be hooking it up to the motherboard and letting the motherboard run a hundred percent so we'll see how loud it is like this how much air it moves based on the piece of paper and then we'll put in the voltage reducer and we'll see how that does alright so there it is at 100% it's actually moving quite a bit of air as you can see by that piece of paper there the fan isn't dead silent but it's pretty it's pretty quiet let's listen to it a hundred percent and I'll put the mic up near the hub so you can hear the motor noise and to give you an idea of how much air it's actually moving you can hear the wind noise I mean look at that look at that of all the fans I've tested I've never had the piece of paper stand straight out that's insane okay so here it is what the voltage reducer on there you can see there's still quite a bit of air moving can definitely feel it here's the noise and in comparison yeah I would definitely use the voltage reducer you're not really sacrificing much in terms of air flow it's damn near silent and as you can see by the piece of paper you still have quite a bit of airflow okay now I'm the first to admit this isn't exactly the most optical application considering you know as you can see there the fan itself is bigger than the radiator so they do make 120 millimeter versions of these fans and I don't have a hundred and forty millimeter radiator sitting around not being used so I figured this is more or less morbid curiosity to see how well it's going to perform there are some gaps on each side of the radiator here so there is gonna be some air loss there but I guess this will be a good interesting test just to see how it does just for the sake of science Wow but as you can see oops yeah as you can see it is certainly moving the paper through the radiator stand it up straight let's go ahead and stop it so yeah you can see it is it is definitely moving the paper through the radiator I need to get my hand on some 120s though so I could really test this in a radiator application so Josh if you're watching we need some 120s dude well yeah you can certainly feel the air coming through the fins not the there's a little bit getting stuff right there but as you can see I'm blocking that with my hand and it's not really affecting the airflow so well I'm actually kind of impressed with that so that means if you had a proper fitting fan on 120 on there you could slow it down and still get equal amount of aesthetic pressure going through there look that flag looks like at the way being like a flag well all-in-all I have to say I think fractal design has got one hell of a winner here you know I think if I had any gripe honestly it would be the light colored the light blue color that's sitting here on the fan hub but most of the time you're not going to see that because the part that's facing you is pretty much solid hub here that's not in-your-face and if it was pushing air through a radiator again that's the way it would look like that if it's in the back year case it would be like this so you wouldn't really see that but I would I do think an all solid black or even black and gray design would look at me I think the only other thing to that I'd like to see in these would be other colors now I know fractal design is very monochrome with the black and the white but if they started offering a way to get custom colors in these I know we're talking like you know they just launched these so it's kind of like skipping way ahead to start talking about colors then it would be an absolute the only fan at the current point of making this video that I would recommend because you could customize it to your case or your build aesthetic get static pressure or airflow options we've got the rubber mount so it's not gonna be making noise and they look fantastic so you could technically mod this too and paint the shroud leave the fins black and leave the rubber black and you have two-tone fan so I could think of all sorts of uses for this fan the performance is there the cables links are pretty adequate they're not too short not too long so it'd be easy to manage all black cables that are running into the hub so the little wires there aren't gonna be you know red yellow and green like they tend to be in other fans and you have a nice sleeve cable on top of that so it goes to show that fractal design really spent a lot of time and effort designing these fans and so if you're looking for fans for radiators before your cases or for both then it's definitely a fan worth checking out so there you go guys that was my look here at the venturi fans I know it was kind of a long video for fans but it was definitely worth taking a look at I'm glad I looked at these anyway tell me what you guys use what are your favorite fans and why fans are one of those things where there's so many options on the market I think people get a little bit lost on trying to decipher which fan to go with and why I mean there's so many different bearing types so many different blade types you got LED fans you got this just so many freakin options so tell me what you guys are using you might be able to help someone out down in the comments if you can you know articulate clearly why you're using the fan that you are so with that said I'm gonna go ahead and get the heck on out of here guys know as always as my eyes are burning here looking at these lights thanks for watching