so along with the spitfire six uh GPU cooler which you can see to my right
your left thermal right also sent me a fan to go with it the x silent 140. now
the spitfire 6 is compatible out of the box with either a 120 or a 140
millimeter fan but i thought i'd just take a moment and unbox this particular
fan for your unboxing pleasure so it is high efficient and low noise by 11 wings
design so what they mean is that it has 11 wings okay our wings up blades not
wings uh liquid state bearing in 50 000 hour long 50 000 long life hours 7 volts
of power usage can be adjusted via fan control device okay is a 140 by 140 by
25 millimeter so this is a standard thickness fan it has a liquid stapler i
don't know what a liquid state bearing is to be perfectly honest with you
startup voltage is 7 volts that's pretty good
typically very very very good fans will start up
around 5 volts but 7 volts is still very respectable for a 140 millimeter fan
especially because i'm thinking in terms of 120 mils rated current uh rated speed
is 900 RPM you can read all this why am i even
reading this out there you done reading good okay so let's unbox this fan and
then i'm actually going to show the procedure to install it onto the
spitfire 6 graphics card cooler so 140
millimeter fans actually let me grab a 120 millimeter fan that i tossed out of
the way when i was clearing my desk so i'll just grab that so this is a 140
millimeter fan versus a 120 millimeter fan you can see it is quite a lot bigger
so that means that just like moving from 80 to 120 millimeter you can just spin
the blade slower and still get the same amount of cooling so this is kind of a
smoked gray acrylic sort of look to it
it's kind of nice and you've got a thermal right logo up in the middle here
the frame itself is more of a more of an opaque black
and this is interesting there are
oh i get it there are holes um around this fan
because this is not the led version but it looks like you could you could
actually probably jury rig leds into this fan if you really wanted to
um let's look around at the back so on the back you can see we've got the basic
specs for the fan all right i've had enough talking about the fan let's talk
about the sleeving on the cable so the sleeving on the cable is actually this
is pretty darn good quality sleeving hey you know what so few companies have
this figured out where they use a good quality sleeving a good quality heat
shrink and then the cable you can't see the color of it so you can see they've
sleeved right up to the end and you cannot see the color of the cables
inside at all so i'm gonna set this up
so that the fan is actually pushing air down onto my heatsink okay so i pull
back the wire clips just like this i've already inserted them into the holes and
i'll get the cameraman to have a look at um at the one on his side so give me two
seconds here cameraman and i will get around to that side to show you so you
can see there are holes on the side of the spitfire six there are two at the
either end extremes so those are the 140 millimeter holes and then there are two
more one here and one here right above these two heat pipes so that is for 120
millimeter there's one more here and i have no idea what that's for so why
don't we go ahead and put the fan down and you know what to be perfectly honest
i'm pretty sure that thermal write includes um
little rubber strips to dampen the noise but they would be in the
um in the box right now and i don't have
that handy so you can see it mounts quite you know what i wonder if that's
what the foams are for well i'm not going to stress about it let's turn on
the system and you can see how loud this fan is i don't have it plugged in yet
but i'm going to plug it into one of the fan headers on the classified motherboard that i'm running here now
something to note is that the compatibility for the spitfire six i was
a little bit confused about it when i did my original video and uh so the
compatibility is with the 5850 and the 5870 and this vrm module is also
compatible with the 5850 and 5870 but what thermal write doesn't tell you
because it's possible that they don't know is that this heatsink is also
compatible with the ifinity 6 edition 5870 so that's the gig version of this
card so if you look around at the back of the video card itself you gotta kind
of get down at this angle here cameraman sorry about that thermal raid has
actually included so many extra memory heatsinks that i was able to nope sorry
about that that i was able to install it on the for on the two gig version of the
card without having to buy any additional memory heatsinks so good on
them for uh for going ahead and doing that anyway i wish i could show you some
temperature settings but i don't have the drivers installed but thank you for
checking out my unboxing of the x silent 140 as well as the installation onto the
spitfire 6.