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NZXT FN120 RB & FN140 RB Silent Case Cooling Fans Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2010-04-25
so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of a product I got in the mail these are a couple of NZXT fans and one of them is a 120 millimeter and one of them is a 140 millimeter so the first thing I'm gonna do is the unboxing part fans are really easy to unbox you just open the box yeah there we go yes excellent okay so why don't we have a look at what's included as far as accessories go first you have oh there one screw short on this one you might say there one screw short of a mounting system ah probably just an innocent mistake but it should be four screws included for mounting and then also one molex to three pin fan power adapter so it's just kind of okay there you go so you plug in your molex there and if you have a bunch of fans then you can take more than one of these and you can daisy chain them together so you just kind of plug this into here in theory yep there you go and then you can power two bands and then you can plug in more fans okay so in terms of specs 120-millimeter fans because they're smaller by a substantial margin than 140 millimeter fans you need to spin faster to move the same amount of air or you can move more air at the same noise level because the 140 millimeter fan can spin slower or spin the same speed and movement either way okay they're both 9 blade rifle bearing fans so they're long lasting they have sleeve cables and this is something that NZXT has figured out that so few other companies do is that using a higher quality sleeving helps you can't see the color the cables at all and they use a nice long piece of heat shrink everyone else seems averse to using more than like 2 centimeters of heat shrink because apparently it costs a lot of money okay and then here we go the actual specs of the fans I'm just gonna let you read that on your own should you so desire cameraman let me know when we're focused enough that they can pause it if they feel like it and there's another one here there you go that's good enough okay so why don't we just plug these fans in and then we can show you how loud they are more than anything else I guess we'll just be comparing the two fans against each other so I'm going to plug this so that I cannot plug in both fans there we go so one here a camera I get close so that you can you can hear the difference between fan on and fan off so you have to get really close to the fan that's pretty quiet there's no way you're going to be able to hear that okay and now let's try the next one I suspect we're going to have a very similar experience given that they're they're both rated for the same noise level hmm yep these are both fairly slow fitting spinning fans but as long as you've got a decent case that shouldn't be a problem so anyway there you go that's my unboxing of the NZXT performance fan series
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