Gadgetory

my friends Noctua has done it they have finally given us what we asked for higher rpm and therefore higher performance fans with the same outstanding knock to a technology warranty and build quality and in black instead of poop brown and vomit tan a global leader in tech recruiting is celebrating geek pride by giving away ten amazing tech prizes for more info visit the modus Facebook page or modus com but a February as simple as wow they released those fans Linus really likes in a different color you wouldn't be getting a full video about it you'd be getting a tweet or something no these black fans are part of not to us all new industrial PPC or protected performance cooling lineup they feature similar designs to my favorite two models from their traditional retail lineup but they have some upgrades that allow them to deliver even better performance and longevity so first up the construction material has been upgraded from polybutylene terephthalate to some kind of fiberglass reinforced polyamide this allows the structural components of the fan anyway to survive temperatures of up to a hundred and forty degrees Celsius as of any other part of a PC would still be working at that point so maybe not that interesting but what is interesting about it is that not to a seize the application for these fans in other industries including automotive Aeronautics and home appliances as well so who knows maybe that will come in handy next we get a supertastic three-phase motor design that unlike traditional fan motors provides nearly continuous power to the blade assembly rather than torquing it hard than letting it rely on its own momentum to get another push this improves smoothness and reduces vibration and power consumption at the same time next we get IP 52 dust and water resistance or ip67 dust and waterproofness depending on which cue you go for with the badass ip67 ones being obviously more expensive this makes the new PPC fans ideal for you somewhat not to us describing as challenging conditions although I mean chill I guess being rained on is a condition that I'd consider to be challenging for a normal fan or maybe even more than challenging ridiculous the last change oh yeah more on that last bit later the last change is the only one that I don't much care for not to a has increase the running speeds from 1500 rpm to 2,000 or even 3000 rpm depending on the skew compared to the standard operating speed of 1500 rpm for the regular retail models this means that with regular low-speed adapters which by the way are not included in the box but you can buy them your own multi packs of them along with Y cables extensions and anti-vibration outs and all that stuff that means that it's harder to reach a speed that I find comfortable with just one of those normal adapters thank goodness for PWM control though I was able to get these down to a level that I found satisfying so thumbs up for that and it does all of this while maintaining the 150,000 our mean time between failure and six-year warranty of the regular fans now I mentioned that these were my favourite fan models but I didn't really mention why much fuss gets made about airflow versus pressure optimized fan designs and putting the right fans in the right places but my problem with that is that I might change my configuration at some point so I'd like to have whatever is most versatile a pressure optimized design like the NFF 12 will perform quite well in an open air situation and rock the house in a restrictive situation like if it's up against the heatsink radiator or restrictive fan grill that's why I prefer pressure optimized fans and I prefer not to as over other ones because they just plain old kick-ass I don't even understand most of the technology behind them but they're well built perform like nobody's business undervolt gracefully or at least lower their speed gracefully and aside from looking like rubbish for normal ones anyway are the best fans on the market I guess I should mention why I prefer the 814 it's because it has a square frame so it's much better for raid later mounting it a little bit again more versatile and easier to find spots for it but that's why these are so exciting subjectively using them they're obviously louder meant for industrial environments but for all the other benefits I will deal with the slight inconvenience of needing to Rika jigger my fan speed controller to reach my target sub 1000 rpm running speeds and frankly most people aren't the kinds of quiet freaks that I am so y'all are likely to even be bothered by this and may even consider it to be a big advantage that they are able to run at higher rpms now I said I'd elaborate on the water and dust resistance so here we go I grabbed one of the ip67 2000 rpm models it Noctua shipped me and decided it was time for it to go for a swim as a control I grabbed an old NFP 12 and put it in the same bucket I left my camera running to see how long each of the fans would survive under water now one thing that was a little bit confusing at first was the way that the older fan simply spun slower due to the water resistance while the industrial PPC fan would start and stop to protect itself from damage this submerged scenario is unlikely to ever actually occur and if it did the rest of whatever the fans attach to would pretty much be dead anyway but the good news is that it brought our attention to a cool feature that'll be great in the real world as well like if a wire gets caught in a fan or something like that your fan is more likely to protect itself very cool anyway back to the water long story short the water resistant fan lived the other one didn't our hypothesis that Noctua doesn't just randomly make crap up when they're doing their marketing materials has been confirmed once again now you may have noticed that I've been calling this fan black all this time but it actually still has brown accents and normally this is the point where I'd be like yeah whatever Brown fan masterrace anyway but actually that's not going to happen because I saved one more surprise for you guys at the end here even the little brown accent anti-vibration notes can be taken off so you're left with a completely clean looking black fan ballin just be ready to pay through the nose for these bad boys because they are extremely expensive as usual speaking of expensive the pricing and availability for this product is in the video description before below the like dislike and share buttons which you should use accordingly also in the video description is a support link where you can buy a t-shirt use a monthly give us a monthly contribution or change your amazon bookmark so that we get an affiliate kickback whenever you buy stuff it helps us out a lot thanks again for watching it as always don't forget to subscribe