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that's how you upgrade a computer right with the purchase of a qualifying Intel processor SSD or nook you could instantly win and Intel gaming Jersey and be entered in the draw for the ultimate system click now to learn more - and I like our premium fans and we're both quite public about being fans of Noctua and with pretty good reason octo is able to boast extremely high build quality great thermal performance and very low operating decibel levels lately they've even addressed the issue of their kind of puke Brown problem by introducing their Redux and especially their industrial PPC line of fans which I'm a big fan of but they're pretty crazy expensive if you think about it in many cases people are buying these premium fans to replace fans that are already installed in their case or that come with a radiator by default is it really worth it though there's a price / performance value of swapping your fans really make any sense in this case or should we be more focused on investing in different parts of our computer we decided to find out let's start with our test setup we have an NZXT h4 40 with his defaults fan setup of 3 120 millimeter fans in the front and 1 140 millimeter fan in the back then we have a corsair at h 105 with its to default 120 millimeter fan strapped to it up in the top of the case which will be cooling at i 749 30k when we switch to nock to a fans we're replacing all of the 120 millimeter fans with n FF 12s and we will replace the 140 millimeter fan in the back with an NFA 14 first off we have our thermal testing our 49 30 K is running at stock and as per usual our Idol test will be ran with minimal processes running in the background our load test is ran with prime95 running small FFT mode just to stress out the CPU a little bit and get that heat flowing in both thermal and audio test cases the fans are running at about eleven hundred rpm for the stock and the Noctua aftermarket fans secondly we have the audio test case this was done by shutting off everything in range that could make noise that means straight up on plugging pretty much all electron in the area and even going as far as unplugging the fridge that was on the floor below just because it was slightly too close I then set up our X tech digital sound level meter and recorded it with a camera just to make sure everything went okay as I wanted to leave the room just in case the sound meter would pick up my breathing so essentially yeah there was a little pervert awesome but maybe not the 204 dollars worth of improvement that you were hoping to get this money could easily be shifted into other parts of your computer for a more noticeable performance improvement in most cases a lot of things in the computer modding world aren't exactly worth it in a price / performance sense and while I can sit here in bash on performance fans there are other culprits as well do-it-yourself water cooling isn't exactly the biggest reward for your investment either especially if you're a fan of buying premium components and this brings me to the conclusion I've known what the results of this test would yield for quite a while and I'm sure many of you watching knew as well but that doesn't stop people like Linus and I from water cooling our computers and outfitting them with top-of-the-line fans and other stuff like that but this doesn't exactly have the greatest price / performance ratios and that's okay with us if you're on a tight budget and trying to build a gaming rig that will ultimately live under your desk you should probably just focus on your core components in this case if you're a fan of performance components and essentially the computer version of a hot-rodder then it's probably fine for you to torch your wallet a little bit and invest in premium stuff like premium fans and water cooling all right guys so what do you think of premium setups are you into that are you just buying like extremely gaming optimized ones that are as low cost as you can get while getting the highest performance out of it that you can get let me know in the comments down below while you're down there like favorite dislikes subscribe share all that kind of stuff if you want to do that in another place as well jump over to the forum and do it there and if you don't like the ads become a contributor as normal if you want a shirt for some reason check the link in the description down below and can get an awesome looking shirt there I think we have our better than useless shirts on sale there I know a guy that actually works here recently bought one so that's pretty cool thanks for watching and I'll see you guys next time