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antek has something very very cool here today I know it's just a fan but there's actually a lot of innovation in this fan that I think is absolutely fascinating so they're calling this the an tech advance true quiet pro 120 they're saying it provides maximum cooling with minimal noise which is pretty much the same claim that anyone who makes a fan pretty much claims okay but I think they have something to back it up here this is a 600 / 1200 rpm fan on the back it says unique frame family provides superior airflow and minimal turbulence and I'll show you guys why that is and that's pretty much it that's it for the packaging so let's open it up and let's have a look at this fan now I've already had one of these open I don't know if it was this one or if it was the other one but I've already had one of them open and I'm gonna tell you guys I'll spoil the surprise I am very very impressed by this particular fan because it does a whole lot of things right and not a whole lot wrong so first thing let's have a look at the accessories so we've got a molex 4 pin 2 3 pin adapter with an RPM monitoring wire we have 6 6 fan mount grommet things that are very robust feeling so you go ahead and you thread that through the fan and then whatever you happen to want to mount it to let's go ahead and put that there you can pull that through it's not gonna break how many of you guys have had these break on you before and there you go you're going to be able to mount that to whatever you want with a nice vibration proof mount so speaking of vibration proof let's get to the fan itself on both sides of the fan it has sorry about that guys okay so we've got great quality grommets on both sides of the fan which means so whether you are mounting it somewhere as an intake or whether you're mounting into the back Y is an exhaust you're gonna have a nice vibration I won't say vibration proof but very low vibration mount I mean can you guys see how much moisture is in there I'm expecting very little vibration to be transferred from the fan to whatever it happens to be mounted to in this situation okay another cool thing to show you guys here is the fact that the fan is actually mounted very very very very loosely but the frame itself in spite of being so small is still very solid so you can actually take your give me give me two seconds I'll be back just kind of look at the fan for a second I'll be back I'm going to show you guys what I would consider to be a low quality fan so this one this guy right here so check out how much flex I'm gonna try and apply about the same amount of force so check out how much flex there is in the frame can you see that at all can you see the flex okay so now I'm gonna show you guys this antique fan in spite of its small frame you can see it's probably got about the same amount of flex to it and that's just comes from higher quality materials there's nothing you can really substitute for that when you are building a fan okay next thing that's really cool check this out you guys so I am going to line up the very edge of the blades on this no-name fan here hold on give me a second here guys and what you are going to see hello blades blades are not quite lined up there we go what you're gonna see is that the antique fan actually extends past there with the blades so by cutting away the frame an tech has cut they've left the square frame here but they actually have blades that go almost all the way out to the edge of a 120 millimeter fan spec so the the confines of a 120 mil in the inter spot they have extended the fan almost completely to the edge they have also reduced the size of the hub in the middle so what does that give you that gives you more surface area for well not really surface area but it gives you more area to push air through versus fans that have you know see this gap here see they have this thicker frame see the huge hub there's just not as much space to push air around as there is with something like the true quiet Pro 120 the true quiet pro 120 also includes a low and a high setting on a little switch here that's pretty typical of an Tek and then a sleeved 3 pin connector now why am I so excited about this because when I plugged this thing is so freakin quiet I have been wondering for the longest time because it doesn't seem to me that you need a motor this big to drive a fan which weighs almost nothing at 1,200 to 1,500 rpm so Antec has gone ahead and they've put in a not very powerful motor in here because powerful motors are going to be louder okay so they've put a not very powerful motor in here that is capable of starting the fan so once it started this fan actually has a ton of momentum because of the weight that is attached to the outside of the blades so this fan here well whatever this isn't gonna be an exact demo but this fan stops spinning fairly quickly because there's not a whole lot of weight to it whereas this fan once it gets going up I'm having trouble holding it without without touching the fan oops this fan is gonna spin for a much longer time and so it doesn't take much force to keep it spinning which means you can use a nice quiet motor to keep it going that doesn't have that grinding that promoter that running noise so all you hear is the gentle whoosh of air which I have tested in real-life scenario already and it does work so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look and gushing about the true quiet Pro 120 I'm very impressed by this thing very excited it is a boon to enthusiasts of silence everywhere Thank You Antec for releasing it and don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos