today we'll be unboxing the Zalman ZM F4
ultra quiet fan with antivibration silicone pins included and I am actually
go oh okay okay we have two of these so
we are going to do an unboxing off between me and slick so we're going to
get the timer going here and I'm going to unbox one of them and he's going to
unbox the other one no no no not at the same time keep your F hand in the camera
um and then we're going to see who can
actually unbox a fan the fastest so we're going to use the iPhone timer so
slick go ahead hold on to that hold on to that don't don't bother showing it to them it's okay they'll they'll just have
to trust us that we're taking time accurately they can always use their YouTube you know timer to to see who can
unbox the fan the fastest so so um give me some kind of a signal when I can
start okay
oh this is harder than it look okay got to get mying
off okay I've got the pins got to get everything arranged okay so you can't
just take it out of the packaging you got to like silicone pins oh did I lose one oh
fam okay there it is okay dime and Slick turned off the camera
when I said dime as opposed to just turning off the stopwatch so what was my
time slick my time was 22.2 seconds so
uh I'm I'm going to do the okay okay no suspense time guys so I'm going to do
the proper sort of unboxing of the fan what's cool about this 135 mm fan is it
uses 120 mm holes very neat also you got
these silicone they call them pins but what I really think they mean is like
fan mounting
dads all right I guess that's not really better so basically this goes into your
case and it acts as like a uh rubber
layer in between the actual fence so so no vibration can be passed to the case
or the cooler or whatever ever else you're using also comes with zman's
famous they were the first ones to start doing this if I recall correctly they're
famous inline resistors so you can easily put the fan in quiet mode just by
plugging this in and then plugging this into a header let's go and do a quick
sound test with the fan uh before we get too much further ahead of ourselves here
so I'm going to go ahead and plug this into one of the headers on this board
that is a oh no I'll just do this to
make my life easier because that way I'll know that it's a full speed
header so we can get some idea of how quiet the fan actually is you know
zman's fans are underrated out there to be perfectly honest just in terms of uh
of quiet fans almost all of their fans
don't sound stupid whereas there's lots of other companies that do make sort of
stupid overly loud fans in that wow that's actually outstanding and
that's without the low noise adapter it's pushing a decent amount of air I
mean obviously this is very subjective um this is like sort of Linus's gut feel
about how do the fan sounds how much air it's pushing uh one of the other great
things about zoman fans is they tend to undervolt reasonably well because they
come with an undervolting
adapter I wish I could isolate some of the noise from the stupid computer that
is darn near silent there is no motor noise to this fan
whatsoever um bearing in mind though it's using a sleeve bearing they do tend
to be very very quiet at the beginning and they can get a little bit louder over time also sleeve bearings aren't
great for horizontal installations so you want to T typ use them uh where
they're going to be vertical such as on a CPU Cooler whether it's this way or
this way or whatever else on a radiator or something along those lines so now uh
let's take a break and we will come back
with Slick's attempt to beat my 22.2
second time okay hold on I got to indicate to uh slick when to uh when to
go for it here I'm just going to reset so remember guys my time is
22.2 ready and
go he doesn't stand a
chance look at him he's already way
behind does not stand a chance see he
lost the silicone things I can't
see that's only three oh I just got beat well thank you
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featuring slick with a bag on his head
he needs the bag trust me oh