welcome to an unboxing of a product that I think people are pretty excited about
I know I am Corsair has fans now so fans
okay not complicated right there's like
a motor in the middle inside the Hub there's uh you know blades that like
spin around there's a frame what all can be done in order to innovate on fans
well I think we've seen over the last couple of years that a lot can be done
to innovate on fans higher quality bearings will reduce noise um more
better design that okay better design
into the exact shape the design of the blades can improve air flow and you can
also do a bunch of other stuff so Corsair has okay check this out they
have replaced what would be more of a traditional just either closed or open
Corner fan design with sort of a uh it's
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
advantages of open Corner in that you can more easily affix um short screws
through them and sort of like run screws in from this way and bolt them into a
radiator whatever else the case may be I mean take a little bit of work at it but
there you go and then they've also put in noise dampening so noise dampening is
a huge thing for fans because no matter how smooth the rotation of your fan is
no matter how awesome your bearing is there's always going to be a little bit
of vibration passed along to the case so using rubber here here here and here
means that it's pretty difficult for that vibration to be passed to your case
you can also see little little touches like using all black connectors and all
black wires these are things that Corsair first started doing on their power supplies to really set them apart
from the competition in terms of Aesthetics corsar has also done
something kind of cool and that is the implementation of this multi- ring
system so every Corsair fan whether it's an AF Series so flow optimized series or
whether it is an SP series or static pressure optimized series of fan comes
with these replaceable I've never done this before so I'm just kind of guessing
right now but maybe yeah go like that or
something so guys you just use a screwdriver put it in here pop the one
clip out and then the rest of them will follow very easily and you can easily
replace it with white blue or red and I'm I'm sure corser will look into the
possibility of doing other colors in the future whatever the case may be so there
you go that's yet another Innovation where instead of releasing like a bolt
load of different SKS and different colors Corsair has just included everything you need to put a nice little
accent color to go with your build on the fan right out of the box so I think
that's kind of neat so what else can you innovate on well you can innovate on
whatever this scan is optim okay we got to sorry about that guys the door was
open so sound was passing right through anyway um so you can uh you can innovate
on what they're optimized for so the AF series is optimized for airflow much
like competing fans such as no no don't look over the outload over here it's
much like the antech true true quiet Pro so what does that mean that means these
are for situations like in the front or back of a case where there's very little
restriction if you wanted to use an AF series fan on something like a radiator
or heat sink you wouldn't get the Optimal Performance because the way the
fans are scooping the air and blowing it out towards the back of the fan it is
more if if there's something in the way you're going to lose a lot of what
you're trying to move through out around the uh in between the fins whereas if
you have a completely open air environment they are very aggressively
scooped in order to move as much air as possible in a low restriction
environment so they've also uh lowered the size of the Hub in the middle which
gives you just more overall blade and less overall dead zone is what it's
called in the Middle where you're not actually moving any air and uh until we
actually get these on the test bench although I've got some numbers that uh
look pretty promising um I haven't I haven't actually done acoustic testing
personally on these ones yet though in terms of the uh subjective testing so
I've seen the objective tests for their performance as well as for their noise
output but I haven't really put them through the paces for how do they sound
when you undervolt them do they develop any ticking do they have more of a low
drone do they have a high wine so that I
am really really looking forward to so there you go they are available in a
variety of configurations although let's finish looking at what's in the package
here so we've got a low noise
adapter as well as four included black screws Corsair is so good at those nice
little touches including black screws instead of silver screws including a
sleeved inline resistor instead of with black connectors and black cables
instead of you know not having black connectors and black cables and not
having it be sleeved uh Solutions guide 2012 bunch of course products and
whatnot in there so that's good stop do not return this product to the store
return it to Corsair or talk to their tech support right so what all do they
have first of all you can buy their fans in single or dual packs so dual packs
come with two fans inside single packs come with you guessed it one fan inside
you can also get them in a variety of different configurations so we've got
140 mm quiet fans 120 mm quiet fans and
120 mm performance fans so these are
actually using the same overall blade design it's pretty much the same thing
but the difference is the default RPM the default noise and the amount of airf
flow that obviously they will use so what would you want a quiet fan for
personally I would use a quiet Edition fan for running even quieter you know in
a super silent PC kind of configuration
that was what I that's what I would want that for what would you use the higher
speed one for well if you were if you say for example you had an ASUS
motherboard with their fan configuration whatever it's called Uh easy fan is that
what it's called easy fan fan expert fan expert too so you could use one of these
higher performance ones to run at high speed when things are getting hot and to
turn down to very low speeds when things are getting not as hot so that's uh
that's why you'd want a more higher performance one also if you're not as sensitive to noise personally I'm a
silence freak when it comes to fans and cooling so I have zero interest in this
one and I am all about this quiet Edition one here because I'm going to
turn it down even lower and see just how quiet I can get it they also an example
of a system configured with their fans so you can see here with the radiator
there's a push pole configuration they're using pressure fans you can tell from the shape of the blades for the
front of the case they're using airflow fans you can tell from the shape of the
blades again just because it's more free flow more open air same thing with the
top of the case so really that is where you're concerned with pressure although
for me personally I find there to be advantages to pressure fans in many
different scenarios even even in the front of a case for example where a lot
of cases don't just have free mesh in the front so if you have a case that
sorry about that guys battery died but if you have a case where the front panel
is actually quite restrictive then you're going to want to look at maybe using pressure fans and those scenarios
so if you need any help just you know check out the Forum the ncx forums or
whatever else and see what people think but in most cases
um there will be a more optimized fan for your particular application so thank
you for checking out my unboxing and first look at Corsair's AF series fans
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