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welcome to my unboxing in our traditional outdoor unboxing location of

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the NF F12 pwm from Noctua now this is a

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pressure Centric fan and this goes with

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noct tua's long-standing proud tradition of delivering excellent performance at a

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quiet noise level however not every fan is suitable for every purpose so now

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they had before okay before they had the S12 and they had the p12 the S12 was for

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open airflow environments like a case exhaust fan and the p12 was for more

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restrictive environments such as a heat sink or a radiator now the F12 or it's

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yes sorry the F12 doesn't replace either of those fans but it is even better at

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pushing air through more densely populated areas that is to say more

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dense heat sinks and more dense radiators than the previous p12 so the

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p12 is the balanced fan whereas the S12 is the open airflow fan and the F12 is

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going to be the restrictive airflow forcing fan now these are all quiet fans

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so don't get don't let that get out of your mind so it includes a lot of new

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technology including their hept perf impeller which works in tandem with the

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ster guide veins we'll talk about those after as well as the focus flow frame

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okay perfect balance between power and quietness that's what noctu is all about so if it didn't do that I'd be surprised

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to reduce noise you can see here they've actually got a little diagram of the way

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the air air flow gets broken up by their new stepped Inlet design so once again

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more technology built into the fan to reduce noise noise the sso2 bearing is

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an upgrade from the SSO version one so you can actually see here they've drawn

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little diagrams of them both for us however I am not a fan engineer so I'm

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afraid I don't know exactly what they mean by all of this but they say it's

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even better than the time tested SSO bearing which means it's pretty darn

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good because I can tell you guys now the SSO version one bearing is

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awesome folks Focus flow frame so designed for pressure demanding

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applications such as heat sinks and radiators got that 11 Stater veins that

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straighten Channel and focus the air flow so we'll talk about that in just a

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moment actually okay so here's the diagram of the fan

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itself this is actually neat more on these in a moment okay so number five is

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the metal bearing sh shell so in order to guarantee the highest possible degree

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of manufacturing Precision right there it actually has a metal shell for the

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bearing next we've got integrated anti vibration pads so I'll show you those on

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the fan itself custom designed pwm I with SCD so that is their new technology

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to reduce pwm switching noises and make the fan even quieter at low speeds

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varying angular distance and Vortex control notches okay so we're pretty

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familiar with these but with the uniform distribution of the Stater veins the

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relative geometrical constellation of the rotor blades and the Stater guide veins is identical each time the rotor

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moves over the next stator vein so so pretty much what they've done here is

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they've made everything as close to being 100% I can't even say well well

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yeah they've tried to make it as symmetrical in as many different ways as

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possible inner surface micro structures so when the tips of the blades plowing

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through the boundary lay are created by the inner surface micro structures flow

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separation from the suction side of the blades is significantly suppressed ultra

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low power consumption this I think is less of a factor for most users the low

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noise adapters that nocta includes with their fans are very very handy I'll show

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you that when we open it up extensive labling options oh look at that comes with an

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extension NY keen and a six-year manufacturer warranty you can't put a

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six-year manufacture warranty on anything with moving Parts unless you

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are prepared for users to either AR them

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or if unless you are prepared to build a darn good product so hopefully Noctua

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has gone well actually not hopefully so Noctua has gone with the ladder as

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opposed to the former here are some fan screws in case you want to mount your

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fan that way here are some rubber fan mounts uh I would definitely recommend

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mounting your fans that way as it is quieter reduces the vibration that gets

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P to the case although mind you with the hereat these are the integrated grommets

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with these integrated grommets even if you screw it in with a screw the only

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vibration that can be passed would be from this bit of plastic here to the

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screw to the case because right here you're going to be rubber isolated so

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these will make it even better because they go through like that and they envelop the case in the fan itself and

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keep them actually slightly separated all right so here here are the

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this is how Noctua achieves the directed air flow so you can see the fan blades

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pass over the fan like this and what these are here for is to actually keep

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all of the air moving in One Direction in one tunnel away from the fan frame

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itself so that is part of what makes it more effective for heat sinks there is

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less wasted energy because instead of blowing the air around in all these

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directions you are blowing it in exactly the direction of exactly what you want

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to cool so this would be great for other applications such as for a intake fan

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where you want to direct that air flow to your graphics card rather than just sort of dumping air into the case you

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want to take that air directly to the thing you want to cool use one of

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these other included accessories include the extension cable there you go as well

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as oh this is kind of neat it includes a y cable that's outstanding and these are

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all pwm cables which actually aren't that easy to find and aren't that cheap

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so that's that's handy as well so you have a wide variety of different

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mounting options you can even Mount two of them off you know one header and you

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can put one there and one there and I love that they've included a nice short

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cable because if you're using it as a CPU fan the last thing you want is a

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bunch of extra cable cluttering up your cluttering up your case so here's the

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stepped Inlet design right there just want to show you guys some of these

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technologies that we talked about before these are the see these little dimples

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inside here oops can you see them right there all right so that was one of the

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things we talked about before the blade design actually looks very similar to

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the p12 but I'm sure that it's not because knowing kn to oh yeah look at

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that so The Notches are now here and uh

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traditionally we've seen notches on the uh trailing edges of the fans on here

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so I think that's pretty much it I think we've covered most of the technology

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we've covered the look of the fan itself KN to a signature Brown and cream don't

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forget to subscribe to Linus techtips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys I forgot the

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low noise adapter which they've now started sleeving this looks fantastic

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compared to the older ones and there we go so you could mount it way at the end

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of like something and then make it low noise in addition to everything that

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you're already doing