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hey guys welcome to an unboxing that is out of necessity going to be fairly quick I'm trying to get this fan on a heatsink so that I can test the thermal right Silver Arrow with an alternate fan configuration now before I take it off the CPU and swap it out for something else so I've already talked a fair bit about naktu as NFA 14 which is a square frame 140 millimeter fan ideal for radiators and case fan and sort of all kinds of different applications this guy's got 140 millimeter holes on a 140 millimeter frame its pressure optimized so it's good for all those applications this is the f12 which is very similar except see that cool stuff going on there it is a focused flow fan so it's ideal for spot cooling it's ideal for radiators heat sinks anything that requires a 120mm fan with 120 mil mounting holes this guy right here is a 140 millimeter frame with 150 millimeter width however it's still 140 millimeter blades and 120 millimeter mounting holes which makes it ideal for mounting on coolers like this where you could benefit see this is there's one already on here which means you can benefit from the larger blade see in there you can see the blades are like all the way the entire width of the entire heatsink now but mount with 120 millimeter holes so check this out guys ideal for 140 millimeter CPU coolers tons of technology there flow acceleration channels aao frames depth Inlet design inner surface micro structures integrated anti-vibration pads custom design pwm IC with SC d basically these are the most over designed fans you can get yeah pretty much so there's like flow acceleration channels which increase efficiency and the increase in speed achieved through the float leads to significantly reduced flow separation which permits lower vortex noise and higher air flow efficiency these guys are all about having quiet operating products sso to barring extremely high quality barring completely sealed so it's not going to get dust and junk in it over time also comes with a six year warranty and the stepped Inlet design is actually on the edge of the fence here I'll just show it to you on one of the other fans you see the stepped inlets here has something to do with breaking up the flow that comes in making it quieter and more efficient there's if ball-like dimples in here that just generally make the fan more better I've been a huge Noctua fan hahahaha for a long time now this guy right here spins at 1200 RPM or 900 RPM with the included low noise adapter it's going to be so quiet at 1200 rpm I don't see much point quieting it down but I mean it still performs very well with the low noise adapter you can see there's a significant drop in static pressure so if you are using it in the heatsink application you may want to use it that way it's exceeds the award-winning NFP 14 which is the NFP 12 140 millimeter version so this is even better than that guy and incorporates a lot of the technology that we saw introduced with the NFF 12 which was like a huge step forward in fan design even for Noctua around 140 off low acceleration china AO frame aha advanced acoustic optimization frames feature integrated anti-vibration pads as well as mock to us that's the stepped Inlet so this is just branding for multiple things that we've already talked about before the inter surface micro structures those little things I showed you before in there are to reduce the blade passing noise and improve air flow and pressure efficiency and the improved anti-vibration pads I'll show you in a minute here high-end PWM circuitry is circuitry is very important it makes it more compatible with third party coolers also reduces the amount of just sort of random IC noise that it makes and yeah it's just generally better the fan itself comes with an extension cable which you'll see you'll you may need in a moment because it comes with a very short cable comes with a Y splitter okay that's handy so single four pin pwm to dual four pin PWM okay needy meaty neat neat neat neato oh yeah low speed adapter low noise adapter and low speed adapter it does both things mounting screws although you probably won't want to use those because it comes with rubber noise isolating by anti vibration mounts so check this out this is a very unique looking fan sorry use the camera to get the fan out so check this out looks looks kind of bizarre right see it's got those those these are the rubber anti vibration mounts that are integrated these are the 120 millimeter mounting holes on a 140 millimeter by 100 50 millimeter frame very very strange-looking design but you can see why this is why I wanted to have one of them mounted already before I even started doing the unboxing because you can see here that if we mounted it this way see that these pieces wouldn't get to touch the heatsink so you wouldn't get to take advantage of any of the anti vibration if you use the fans that were included with this cooler which you can see have a very similar design with the 120 mil holes in the 140 millimeter blades you again don't get to leverage any anti vibration anything because there's no room on a frame this size to build that in so that is why not - it did this so that they could put the fan in like this see that where you get rubber to metal so that you don't have any sort of vibration and I've said that word a lot in the last little bit no innuendo intended so you don't get any vibration being passed but you get to take advantage of the 140 millimeter blades that can be mounted on 120 millimeter devices now something like this useless for radiators don't do it because it'll leak around the edges it's kind of like Corsairs new SP fans which are they generate good static pressure and all that and that's all good but they leak around the edges of radiator so there are better solutions such as the NFF 12s and ya p12 is even so there's the acceleration notches there's the stepped Inlet there's the golf-ball dimples very high-tech stuff these guys put there's like kind they're kind of obsessive they're one of those companies that take something that sort of no one else really cares that much about and just kind of obsess over it like who would I even compare them to like someone like yeah there's not really that many guys guys like this they've really built their brand on building fans that are ugly but they work it's like that it's like that cough medicine tastes awful but it works so there you go thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the NF a 15 pwm fan from nock to i it is ideal for heatsink applications don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings use and other computer videos