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welcome to an unboxing of a product that I think people are pretty excited about

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I know I am Corsair has fans now so fans

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okay not complicated right there's like

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a motor in the middle inside the Hub there's uh you know blades that like

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spin around there's a frame what all can be done in order to innovate on fans

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well I think we've seen over the last couple of years that a lot can be done

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to innovate on fans higher quality bearings will reduce noise um more

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better design that okay better design

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into the exact shape the design of the blades can improve air flow and you can

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also do a bunch of other stuff so Corsair has okay check this out they

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have replaced what would be more of a traditional just either closed or open

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Corner fan design with sort of a uh it's

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got the advantages of closed Corner in that it's a little bit more solid it's a little bit more sturdy it's got the

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advantages of open Corner in that you can more easily affix um short screws

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through them and sort of like run screws in from this way and bolt them into a

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radiator whatever else the case may be I mean take a little bit of work at it but

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there you go and then they've also put in noise dampening so noise dampening is

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a huge thing for fans because no matter how smooth the rotation of your fan is

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no matter how awesome your bearing is there's always going to be a little bit

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of vibration passed along to the case so using rubber here here here and here

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means that it's pretty difficult for that vibration to be passed to your case

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you can also see little little touches like using all black connectors and all

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black wires these are things that Corsair first started doing on their power supplies to really set them apart

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from the competition in terms of Aesthetics corsar has also done

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something kind of cool and that is the implementation of this multi- ring

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system so every Corsair fan whether it's an AF Series so flow optimized series or

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whether it is an SP series or static pressure optimized series of fan comes

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with these replaceable I've never done this before so I'm just kind of guessing

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right now but maybe yeah go like that or

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something so guys you just use a screwdriver put it in here pop the one

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clip out and then the rest of them will follow very easily and you can easily

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replace it with white blue or red and I'm I'm sure corser will look into the

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possibility of doing other colors in the future whatever the case may be so there

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you go that's yet another Innovation where instead of releasing like a bolt

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load of different SKS and different colors Corsair has just included everything you need to put a nice little

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accent color to go with your build on the fan right out of the box so I think

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that's kind of neat so what else can you innovate on well you can innovate on

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whatever this scan is optim okay we got to sorry about that guys the door was

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open so sound was passing right through anyway um so you can uh you can innovate

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on what they're optimized for so the AF series is optimized for airflow much

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like competing fans such as no no don't look over the outload over here it's

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much like the antech true true quiet Pro so what does that mean that means these

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are for situations like in the front or back of a case where there's very little

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restriction if you wanted to use an AF series fan on something like a radiator

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or heat sink you wouldn't get the Optimal Performance because the way the

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fans are scooping the air and blowing it out towards the back of the fan it is

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more if if there's something in the way you're going to lose a lot of what

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you're trying to move through out around the uh in between the fins whereas if

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you have a completely open air environment they are very aggressively

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scooped in order to move as much air as possible in a low restriction

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environment so they've also uh lowered the size of the Hub in the middle which

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gives you just more overall blade and less overall dead zone is what it's

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called in the Middle where you're not actually moving any air and uh until we

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actually get these on the test bench although I've got some numbers that uh

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look pretty promising um I haven't I haven't actually done acoustic testing

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personally on these ones yet though in terms of the uh subjective testing so

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I've seen the objective tests for their performance as well as for their noise

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output but I haven't really put them through the paces for how do they sound

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when you undervolt them do they develop any ticking do they have more of a low

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drone do they have a high wine so that I

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am really really looking forward to so there you go they are available in a

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variety of configurations although let's finish looking at what's in the package

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here so we've got a low noise

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adapter as well as four included black screws Corsair is so good at those nice

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little touches including black screws instead of silver screws including a

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sleeved inline resistor instead of with black connectors and black cables

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instead of you know not having black connectors and black cables and not

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having it be sleeved uh Solutions guide 2012 bunch of course products and

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whatnot in there so that's good stop do not return this product to the store

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return it to Corsair or talk to their tech support right so what all do they

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have first of all you can buy their fans in single or dual packs so dual packs

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come with two fans inside single packs come with you guessed it one fan inside

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you can also get them in a variety of different configurations so we've got

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140 mm quiet fans 120 mm quiet fans and

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120 mm performance fans so these are

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actually using the same overall blade design it's pretty much the same thing

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but the difference is the default RPM the default noise and the amount of airf

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flow that obviously they will use so what would you want a quiet fan for

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personally I would use a quiet Edition fan for running even quieter you know in

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a super silent PC kind of configuration

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that was what I that's what I would want that for what would you use the higher

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speed one for well if you were if you say for example you had an ASUS

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motherboard with their fan configuration whatever it's called Uh easy fan is that

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what it's called easy fan fan expert fan expert too so you could use one of these

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higher performance ones to run at high speed when things are getting hot and to

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turn down to very low speeds when things are getting not as hot so that's uh

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that's why you'd want a more higher performance one also if you're not as sensitive to noise personally I'm a

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silence freak when it comes to fans and cooling so I have zero interest in this

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one and I am all about this quiet Edition one here because I'm going to

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turn it down even lower and see just how quiet I can get it they also an example

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of a system configured with their fans so you can see here with the radiator

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there's a push pole configuration they're using pressure fans you can tell from the shape of the blades for the

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front of the case they're using airflow fans you can tell from the shape of the

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blades again just because it's more free flow more open air same thing with the

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top of the case so really that is where you're concerned with pressure although

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for me personally I find there to be advantages to pressure fans in many

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different scenarios even even in the front of a case for example where a lot

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of cases don't just have free mesh in the front so if you have a case that

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sorry about that guys battery died but if you have a case where the front panel

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is actually quite restrictive then you're going to want to look at maybe using pressure fans and those scenarios

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so if you need any help just you know check out the Forum the ncx forums or

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whatever else and see what people think but in most cases

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um there will be a more optimized fan for your particular application so thank

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you for checking out my unboxing and first look at Corsair's AF series fans

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