this is the Kingston hyperx fan I was
not expecting to receive one of these in the mail but I did so now we're going to
be doing an unboxing memory is not included which Kingston so helpfully
points out right on the front this is one of the sharper looking memory fans
that I've seen we'll have a closer look at it when I get it open but let's have
a quick look at the specs which we'll find on the back features are maximize
your performance potential with hyperx memory and probably any other memory
twin fans direct air flow onto the memory modules and the blue an ized fan
assembly fits most gaming systems it is
whisper quiet at 28 DB maximum and it is
uh 12vt rated with an 8vt to 13 volt
operational range so they are saying that it can be undervolted the fan spin
at 3,000 RPM and why don't we get this
box opened up I will use my handy
scissors to slice open the packaging
which did not work at all and so what I will do is I will use the scissors to
cut a little Gap in the packaging and then I will peel it back with my
hands cameraman is giving me one of those looks like what are you doing but
I don't care because I'm not accountable
to him so my phone's ringing back at my
desk but there's nothing I can do about that now here we are we have a warranty
and installation guide so it is 100% tested that means that it's not like
like 60 % tested where they test like the metal and the one fan and don't test
that fan 100% tested with an Infinity
lifetime warranty that is awesome this is the only RAM fan I've seen with a
lifetime warranty and then here's a quick
installation guide and I guess I'd better get started on uh on this
installation process so that I can actually show you how to do it on camera
before you get bored okay so we find the
which is quite wide and the camera turned off I'm not sure why the uh the
fan is got a braided sleeve on it and that is a very high quality sleeving you
can tell because you can't see the silver color of the fan wires at all you
can just see the black braided sleeving looks very nice these appear to be led
fans although I um I guess I'd Hazard a guess that they're probably blue but I
don't know for sure that the LEDs are blue but they have 1 two three four LEDs
on each fan so this is going to look quite sharp when it's installed in your
system so here let me I'll just kind of put that there and you can sort of
visualize what it's going to look like while I work on getting the clips out of
their packaging here I got one clip out
so the clips look like this these are actually really nice I I'm a little bit
surprised because unlike some of the other RAM fans I've seen they use like
quite a thick gauge of metal for the clips it's got a nice blue anodized
finish it's actually got quite a bit of glitter to it it's so it's quite sharp
looking and they've got the Kingston hyperx X in both sides sides there so
it's very Kingston branded but you kind of expect that when you buy a product
that's basically just designed to sit on top of your other Kingston product and
it's made by Kingston okay so these thumb screws come with the washers
pre-applied so someone uh is is actually
putting washers on every thumb screw before they ship these things for you
which is pretty great in my opinion because you see so many products these
days that just have sort of you know a bag of here's all the hardware oh this I
like check this out okay unlike and I'm I'm going to go ahead and call out the
Corsair one here unlike the Corsair one there's that here actually let me put
the screw in first before I say this is really good because it might be terrible
still uh hold on okay that goes in there
so there's a little washer okay so that just screws in right there and then
let's do the other side really quick so that just threads right into the top
piece oh shoot I put it in the wrong way uh-oh hold on trouble trouble
back up abort abort there there now it's
in the oh actually hold on maybe it goes here then does it go
there no no that's for the fans this goes here yeah well we'll find out one
way or another based on how short these screws are though I'm assuming it goes
kind of in the top there so I'm just going to yep there we
go get that there oh oh it went in the
other place again oh there we go I figured it out okay so this wasn't as
easy to put on the clip as it initially looked like it was going to be but I
still give Kingston kudos for having like a place where it just kind of sits
and is centered because the Corsair one is like really hard to hold in the right
place while you're trying to put it on and um that makes things a little bit
more difficult so you know I kind of
maybe what we'll do is we'll just um we'll grab a power cord from somewhere I
don't know if I have one in here and then we'll just like turn on that system
so you can see what it looks like when it's on too that would be pretty cool so
let's get this last screw put on here cameraman's getting impatient he's not
even like looking at what I'm doing anymore he's just holding the camera
he's just you know phoning it in okay so
here we've got uh a fan header right there so in order to apply this you want
to go ahead and close all of those so you put the clip over the one side of
the RAM modules here camera man come over here so you can see what I'm doing
here so you put the clip over the one side of the memory modules and then you
put the other clip over here now you can see that it's not going to sit quite
even because of the way ASUS designed these memory slots but that's not really
a big deal the hyperx fan sits quite
high up over the memory so you'd actually be able to use tall modules
whether from Kingston or or some other manufacturer without the memory fan
getting in the way so that's uh that's a pretty cool feature right there as well
so here let me see if I can find a power cord yeah I got one see look even
cameraman has uh has PC power cords lying around he's learning from the best
here so let's plug this in and then um
you know what I don't think I even have the motherboard plugged in so you're
going to have to bear with me here for just a second while I plug in the 24 pin
I wonder if that's going to be enough to get to start yeah hey that looks
terrific and here's something to be cognizant of um I got to move it over a
little bit because it was actually interfering with my CPU fan so you don't
want to move it over so far that it brushes up against the CPU youan but
that looks great on the Rampage 3 Extreme which I I wouldn't have really
expected because it's a red and black themed motherboard but you go and put
that like blue on there to go along with the blue CPU Cooler and it's uh looks
pretty cool it's blowing down a fair amount of air and uh I'll stop talking
for a minute here and let the cameraman move in close so you can hear how loud it is I'm just going to stop the CPU
fan cameraman move close so they can
hear you can't really hear it anyway because it's pretty quiet anyway there
you have it that is the hyperx fan unboxing and uh and first look and it
looks pretty good at first look thank
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