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welcome to an unboxing of a product that I think people are pretty excited about I know I am Corsair has fans now so fans okay not complicated right there's like a motor in the middle in the side the hub there's uh you know blades that like spin around there's a frame what all can be done in order to innovate all fans well I think we've seen over the last couple of years that a lot can be done to innovate on fans higher quality bearings will reduce noise more better design than okay better design into the exact shape the design of the blades can improve air flow and you can also do a bunch of other stuff so Corsair has okay check this out they have replaced what would be the more of a traditional just either closed or open corner fan design with sort of a it's got the advantages of closed corner and that it's a little bit more solid it's a little bit more sturdy it's got the advantages of open corner in that you can more easily a fix short screws through them and sort of like run screw then from this way and bolt them into a radiator whatever else the case may be I mean it's take a little bit of work at it but there you go and then they've also put in noise dampening so noise dampening is a huge thing for fans because no matter how smooth the rotation of your fan is no matter how awesome your bearing is there's always going to be a little bit of vibration pass along to the case so using rubber here here here and here means that it's pretty difficult for that vibration to be passed to your case you can also see little little touches like using all black connectors and all black wires these are things that course are first started doing on their power supplies to really set them apart from the competition in terms of aesthetics Corsair has also done something kind of cool and that is the implementation of this multi ring system so every Corsair fan whether it's an AFC reso flow optimized series or whether it is an SP series or static pressure optimized series of fan comes with these replaceable I've never done this before so kind of guessing right now but maybe yeah like that or something so guys you just use a screwdriver put it in here pop the one clip out and then the rest of them will follow very easily and you can easily replace it with white blue or red and I'm sure Coursera will look into the possibility of doing other colors in the future whatever the case may be so there you go that's yet another innovation where instead of releasing like a boatload of different SKUs and different colors course there's just included everything you need to put a nice little accent color to go with your build on the fan right out of the box so I think that's kind of neat so what else can you innovate on well you can innovate on whatever this can is optimal kit we got it sorry about that guys the door was open so sound was passing right through anyway um so you can you can innovate on what they're optimized for so the AF series is optimized for air flow much like competing fans such as no-no-no of an outlet over here it's much like the Antec true part true quiet pro so what does that mean that means these are for situations like in the front or back in the case where there's very little restriction if you wanted to use an AF series fan on something like a radiator or heat sink you wouldn't get the optimal performance because the way the fans are scooping the air and blowing it out towards the back of the fan it is more if there's something in the way you're going to lose a lot of what you're trying to move through out around the in between the fins whereas if you have a completely open air environment they are very aggressively scooped in order to move as much air as possible in a low restriction environment so they've also lowered the size of the hub in the middle which gives you just more overall blade and less overall dead zone is what it's called in the middle where you're not actually moving any air and until we actually get these on the test bench although I've got some numbers that look pretty promising I haven't I haven't actually done acoustic testing personally on these ones yet though in terms of the subjective testing so I've seen the objective tests for their performance as well as for their noise output but I haven't real put them through the paces for how do they sound when you undervolt them do they develop any ticking do they have more of a low drone do they have a high whine so that I am really really looking forward to so there you go they are available in a variety of configurations although let's finish looking at what's in the package here so we've got a low noise adapter as well as four included black screws Corsair is so good at those nice little touches including black screws instead of silver screws including a sleeved inline resistor and set it with black connectors and black cables instead of you know not having black connectors and black cables and not having it be sleep solutions guide 2012 bunch of course their products and whatnot in there so that's good stop you don't return this product to the store return it to Corsair or talk to their tech support right so what I'll do they have first of all you can buy their fans in single or dual packs so dual packs come with two fans inside single tax come with you guessed it one fan inside you can also get them in a variety of different configurations so we've got 140 millimeter quiet pans 120 millimeter quiet fans and 120 millimeter performance fans so these are actually using the same overall blade design it's pretty much the same thing but the difference is the default rpm the default noise and the amount of airflow that obviously they will use so what would you want to quiet fan for personally I would use a quiet Edition fan for running even quieter you know in a super silent PC kind of configuration that was what that's what I would want that for what would you use the higher speed one for well if you were if you say for example you had an asus motherboard with their fan configuration whatever it's called a easy fan to some what's called easy fan fan expert found expert to so you could use one of these higher performance ones to run at high speed when things are getting hot and to turn down to very low speeds when things are getting not as hot so that's uh that's why I eat one of our higher performance one also if you're not as sensitive to noise personally on the silence freak when it comes to fans and cooling so I have zero interest in this one and I am all about this quiet addition one here because I'm going to turn it down even lower and see just how quiet I can get it they also show an example of the system configured with their fans so you can see here with the radiator there's a push pull configuration they're using pressure fans you can tell from the shape of the blades for the front of the case they're using airflow fans you can tell from the shape of the blades again just because it's more free flow more open air same thing with the top of the case so really that is where you're concerned with pressure although for me personally I find there to be advantages to pressure fans in many different scenarios even even in the front of a case for example where a lot of cases don't just have free mesh in the front so if you have a case say sorry about that guy's battery died but if you have a case where the front panel is actually quite restrictive then you're going to want to look at maybe using pressure fans in those scenarios so if you need any help just you know check out the forum the NCIX forums or whatever else and see what people think but in most cases there will be a more optimized fan for your particular application so thank you for checking out my unboxing your first look at course there's a F series fans and don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer