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GELID Solutions Wing 12PL Green UV LED 120mm Fan Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2010-11-24
this will be a relatively quick unboxing I don't know if I've mentioned this on my video blog before but I'm a big fan of gelid wing fans I really really like them they undervolt extremely well which is to say they don't tick or hum when you turn down the voltage to get them to quiet down and they're also reasonably quiet when they are running at full speed so this is a new updated version of the gelug wing this is the wing PL series which means that it is a pwm fan we have the LED so it has all kinds of cool features so PWM control and LED light nano flux bearing so a PWM control means is that your lights won't get more dim when you when you lower the voltage or rather when you lower the speed if you use PWM control you can still use voltage control on a PWM fan it's just I mean you dropped a feature that you might as well use it so here's some UV reactive fan mounts all right so I'll show you those under UV light in just a moment and then here is the fan with the UV reactive blades as well as white LEDs mounted in the housing so you can see where the LEDs are mounted behind the fan so I'm just gonna kick her into the other room here where I have my computer set up with there's a cat you know that's right you move however I have my computer set up we have UV lights inside it so you can see I got my my wing 90 millimeter as well as my wing 120 millimeter fans up in the top there those are not spinning for a reason it's my fan controller that turn them off so there's the UV reactive pendants that would be kind of a neat neat way to mount these instead of the black ones that I have in there now maybe I should try and get my hands on some blue ones of these those are nice and then here is the the UV reactive green fan so once I put it in there it glows that's why I have these purple lights for those of you who don't know how UV works and no regular cathode lights like white blue red they will not make stuff glow like this you have to use UV in order to get this effect which I personally really like but it's not for everyone so hold on give me two seconds I'm just going to adjust my camera let's say I can kind of point it out what I'm doing here I just want to plug this fan into my motherboard so that I can show you guys what it looks like with the LEDs lit and I have no idea what that's going to look like so we're all gonna find out together because that's the beauty of this channel I'm scripted uncensored unprofessional sometimes but what are you gonna do so there you have it that is the white LEDs on the fan so basically it's kind of like the glow is very similar to what you get from the UV but you can see now the UV light is completely unnecessary so for someone like me who's using UV in their rig for a more subtle lighting effect versus bright LEDs I would probably stick with the regular wing series fans you can see how bright that makes the inside and it's really going to diminish the UV effect on on anything else because one of the disadvantages of UV is that as soon as you introduce any other light sources you're going to really really cut down on that glowing effect so you can see it glows pretty freely by itself but you go ahead and you put like a bright light source next to it and that glow is gonna be really reduced I don't know how well you can guys can see this but there's only so much I can do so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first impressions of the gelid winged 12 PL fan
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