welcome to my unboxing in our traditional outdoor unboxing location of
the NF F12 pwm from Noctua now this is a
pressure Centric fan and this goes with
noct tua's long-standing proud tradition of delivering excellent performance at a
quiet noise level however not every fan is suitable for every purpose so now
they had before okay before they had the S12 and they had the p12 the S12 was for
open airflow environments like a case exhaust fan and the p12 was for more
restrictive environments such as a heat sink or a radiator now the F12 or it's
yes sorry the F12 doesn't replace either of those fans but it is even better at
pushing air through more densely populated areas that is to say more
dense heat sinks and more dense radiators than the previous p12 so the
p12 is the balanced fan whereas the S12 is the open airflow fan and the F12 is
going to be the restrictive airflow forcing fan now these are all quiet fans
so don't get don't let that get out of your mind so it includes a lot of new
technology including their hept perf impeller which works in tandem with the
ster guide veins we'll talk about those after as well as the focus flow frame
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
to reduce noise you can see here they've actually got a little diagram of the way
the air air flow gets broken up by their new stepped Inlet design so once again
more technology built into the fan to reduce noise noise the sso2 bearing is
an upgrade from the SSO version one so you can actually see here they've drawn
little diagrams of them both for us however I am not a fan engineer so I'm
afraid I don't know exactly what they mean by all of this but they say it's
even better than the time tested SSO bearing which means it's pretty darn
good because I can tell you guys now the SSO version one bearing is
awesome folks Focus flow frame so designed for pressure demanding
applications such as heat sinks and radiators got that 11 Stater veins that
straighten Channel and focus the air flow so we'll talk about that in just a
moment actually okay so here's the diagram of the fan
itself this is actually neat more on these in a moment okay so number five is
the metal bearing sh shell so in order to guarantee the highest possible degree
of manufacturing Precision right there it actually has a metal shell for the
bearing next we've got integrated anti vibration pads so I'll show you those on
the fan itself custom designed pwm I with SCD so that is their new technology
to reduce pwm switching noises and make the fan even quieter at low speeds
varying angular distance and Vortex control notches okay so we're pretty
familiar with these but with the uniform distribution of the Stater veins the
relative geometrical constellation of the rotor blades and the Stater guide veins is identical each time the rotor
moves over the next stator vein so so pretty much what they've done here is
they've made everything as close to being 100% I can't even say well well
yeah they've tried to make it as symmetrical in as many different ways as
possible inner surface micro structures so when the tips of the blades plowing
through the boundary lay are created by the inner surface micro structures flow
separation from the suction side of the blades is significantly suppressed ultra
low power consumption this I think is less of a factor for most users the low
noise adapters that nocta includes with their fans are very very handy I'll show
you that when we open it up extensive labling options oh look at that comes with an
extension NY keen and a six-year manufacturer warranty you can't put a
six-year manufacture warranty on anything with moving Parts unless you
are prepared for users to either AR them
or if unless you are prepared to build a darn good product so hopefully Noctua
has gone well actually not hopefully so Noctua has gone with the ladder as
opposed to the former here are some fan screws in case you want to mount your
fan that way here are some rubber fan mounts uh I would definitely recommend
mounting your fans that way as it is quieter reduces the vibration that gets
P to the case although mind you with the hereat these are the integrated grommets
with these integrated grommets even if you screw it in with a screw the only
vibration that can be passed would be from this bit of plastic here to the
screw to the case because right here you're going to be rubber isolated so
these will make it even better because they go through like that and they envelop the case in the fan itself and
keep them actually slightly separated all right so here here are the
this is how Noctua achieves the directed air flow so you can see the fan blades
pass over the fan like this and what these are here for is to actually keep
all of the air moving in One Direction in one tunnel away from the fan frame
itself so that is part of what makes it more effective for heat sinks there is
less wasted energy because instead of blowing the air around in all these
directions you are blowing it in exactly the direction of exactly what you want
to cool so this would be great for other applications such as for a intake fan
where you want to direct that air flow to your graphics card rather than just sort of dumping air into the case you
want to take that air directly to the thing you want to cool use one of
these other included accessories include the extension cable there you go as well
as oh this is kind of neat it includes a y cable that's outstanding and these are
all pwm cables which actually aren't that easy to find and aren't that cheap
so that's that's handy as well so you have a wide variety of different
mounting options you can even Mount two of them off you know one header and you
can put one there and one there and I love that they've included a nice short
cable because if you're using it as a CPU fan the last thing you want is a
bunch of extra cable cluttering up your cluttering up your case so here's the
stepped Inlet design right there just want to show you guys some of these
technologies that we talked about before these are the see these little dimples
inside here oops can you see them right there all right so that was one of the
things we talked about before the blade design actually looks very similar to
the p12 but I'm sure that it's not because knowing kn to oh yeah look at
that so The Notches are now here and uh
traditionally we've seen notches on the uh trailing edges of the fans on here
so I think that's pretty much it I think we've covered most of the technology
we've covered the look of the fan itself KN to a signature Brown and cream don't
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low noise adapter which they've now started sleeving this looks fantastic
compared to the older ones and there we go so you could mount it way at the end
of like something and then make it low noise in addition to everything that
you're already doing