1 00:00:00,170 --> 00:00:03,490 - It's an age-old question, at least in the modern age: 2 00:00:03,490 --> 00:00:09,230 to RGB, or to not RGB? Well, today, we have just the solution. 3 00:00:09,230 --> 00:00:14,520 You can take your not-RGB and apparently make it RGB. 4 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,830 At least that's what they say. So we're gonna try today to make this Noctua fan, 5 00:00:18,830 --> 00:00:23,190 something that is traditionally never RGB, and I swear that they'll probably never 6 00:00:23,190 --> 00:00:27,750 come out with an RGB version of their fans, and with the help of Phanteks, make it RGB. 7 00:00:27,750 --> 00:00:31,913 Let's see how well it works. I mean, on the outside, not really a lot going on. 8 00:00:34,969 --> 00:00:38,050 ♪ Cha ♪ Oh my god, that's not even in the middle. 9 00:00:38,050 --> 00:00:41,790 (laughing) What is that? Look at that. "Made from one single piece of aluminum." 10 00:00:41,790 --> 00:00:46,790 So this is supposed to be a really nice CNC-milled piece. 11 00:00:47,860 --> 00:00:51,630 You can see on the back it's got sort of a diffused ring. 12 00:00:51,630 --> 00:00:55,433 And I think there's 18 LEDs in here? 30 LEDs. Wow. 13 00:00:55,433 --> 00:00:59,140 "Illuminate any fan. Fan screws included to mount halos directly onto the fan." 14 00:00:59,140 --> 00:01:02,950 Radiator screws in case you're using a radiator. That's sweet, because if you were gonna use this... 15 00:01:02,950 --> 00:01:06,790 Look at how thick that is. If you were gonna try to mount that on an existing radiator, 16 00:01:06,790 --> 00:01:12,470 the screws would probably not be long enough, so that's quite nice, although they don't look that long. 17 00:01:12,470 --> 00:01:17,023 Maybe that's a little longer. We'll test it right now. I got the fan, got the frame. 18 00:01:17,023 --> 00:01:22,570 Oh. (laughs) With Noctua fans and their little rubber bumpers... 19 00:01:22,570 --> 00:01:26,330 You could probably get that to thread in. You might have to take the rubber off, I'm not sure. 20 00:01:26,330 --> 00:01:30,300 Yeah, you gotta wear protection. Protect your fans. 21 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:34,250 It looks pretty sleek, hey? Yeah, this is good. Nice and simple. 22 00:01:34,250 --> 00:01:39,803 It's not gonna change your existing fan's look too much, although not that Noctua fans have much of a look. 23 00:01:40,710 --> 00:01:44,680 Okay, so it is not like your standard 24 00:01:45,830 --> 00:01:51,100 sort of 4-pin RGB layout. They do seem to have their own connector. 25 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:56,540 But they do include an adapter cable, so you can take their proprietary-ish connector 26 00:01:56,540 --> 00:01:59,870 and just plug it right into your motherboard, so that'd be nice. If you had multiple fans, 27 00:01:59,870 --> 00:02:03,950 you could get an addressable RGB splitter and then you'd wire it into this 28 00:02:03,950 --> 00:02:07,610 and then you can plug in as many fans as you want. It also looks like, if you have multiple fans, 29 00:02:07,610 --> 00:02:12,410 you can daisy chain them, which is pretty nice. This seems like sort of a solution... 30 00:02:12,410 --> 00:02:17,300 I mean, there's two school of thought here. It's people that want the crazy, silent performance 31 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:21,597 of a Noctua fan and also want RGB, and there's the people that don't want to spend 32 00:02:21,597 --> 00:02:25,370 $40 a fan on RGB fans, but also still want RGB. 33 00:02:25,370 --> 00:02:29,650 So it looks like the cheapest you can get one of these frames for is $17.99, 34 00:02:29,650 --> 00:02:32,670 so I think there is only one school of thought, 35 00:02:32,670 --> 00:02:36,490 and that is that you like Noctua fans and you want them to be RGB. 36 00:02:36,490 --> 00:02:40,710 Or maybe you don't want to tear all the fans out of your computer, but at the same time, 37 00:02:40,710 --> 00:02:43,750 to install these you're gonna be taking a fan out, 38 00:02:43,750 --> 00:02:47,220 putting it in between, sticking it back in, and then rewiring it anyways, 39 00:02:47,220 --> 00:02:52,610 So is it better? I don't know. Okay, let's go over how hard this is to install. 40 00:02:52,610 --> 00:02:56,240 So you got your fan here. Eh? Eh? 41 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:01,770 I'm done. That was pretty easy. I love RGB. Oh, no. (whimpers) 42 00:03:01,770 --> 00:03:07,930 One thing I'm noticing is that the spot that the wiring comes off the frame is not the same as where it does on this fan. 43 00:03:07,930 --> 00:03:12,090 If you were to put it on this side, it would be pretty much the same. 44 00:03:12,090 --> 00:03:16,340 And you can see there, they're kind of on the same side, but that might get kind of annoying. 45 00:03:16,340 --> 00:03:19,620 In most cases, usually the fans, 46 00:03:19,620 --> 00:03:23,080 on the front at least, the cabling is sort of tucked behind, so it's not that big of a deal. 47 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,490 But if you were to install these maybe on the back fan, 48 00:03:26,490 --> 00:03:30,630 you might notice it a little more. All right, so it's mostly in there. One thing I'm noticing 49 00:03:30,630 --> 00:03:33,940 is that you're not gonna have RGB on the back of your fan, 50 00:03:33,940 --> 00:03:38,470 which for some people might be an issue. I know a lot of people have RGB fans 51 00:03:38,470 --> 00:03:42,300 as their only light source in their computer, rather than having, say, strips on the inside 52 00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:46,820 and then fans on the front. They just use the back glow of an RGB fan 53 00:03:46,820 --> 00:03:50,520 to light the inside of the computer. You'll get that a bit through, 54 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,640 but I don't think it's gonna have the same ambience 55 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:58,290 as an actual RGB fan. But I guess we'll have to see. And so for the second one, for a bit of comparison, 56 00:03:58,290 --> 00:04:02,880 we're gonna have our black Noctua fan, and then I'm gonna put this slim white fan, 57 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,170 because it's the only white fan I could find, just to show you what it kind of looks like 58 00:04:07,170 --> 00:04:11,873 on a black fan versus a white fan. So yeah, you totally could put it on the back. 59 00:04:13,310 --> 00:04:17,080 I mean, maybe I will, just for show. Yeah, let's do it. I want to see what it looks like. 60 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:21,210 So yes, we have our black fan, our white fan. I put it on both sides on the black fan 61 00:04:21,210 --> 00:04:25,600 and then just on the one side on the white fan. And now I think we can power it up. 62 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:30,727 But first, a message from our sponsor, Porkbun, and their top-level domain .design. 63 00:04:30,727 --> 00:04:34,150 .design is the premier domain extension for professional and aspiring designers 64 00:04:34,150 --> 00:04:37,980 all the way from web to UX to interior design. They're offering our subscribers 65 00:04:37,980 --> 00:04:41,920 a free .design domain name of your choice to showcase your designs. 66 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,150 Your free .design domain name will come with free WHOIS privacy, free SSL, 67 00:04:46,150 --> 00:04:49,500 free hosting, and an email trial. So get your domain completely free 68 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:53,111 at the link down in the description, or use code CIRCUIT at checkout. 69 00:04:53,111 --> 00:04:56,930 Whoa-ho-ho! Wow, actually. Jeez. 70 00:04:56,930 --> 00:05:02,420 That looks pretty cool, actually. First glance, the black one, it's not that lit up. 71 00:05:02,420 --> 00:05:06,010 But you can see the ring, which kinda looks cool in its own sense. 72 00:05:06,010 --> 00:05:09,520 But the white one looks pretty sweet. Look at that. I kinda think the black looks cool, 73 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:15,540 especially with the back light too. It almost looks like an infinity mirror or something. 74 00:05:15,540 --> 00:05:18,700 Yeah, you're definitely gonna get more RGB effect 75 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:23,800 out of a white fan. But the black one looks pretty cool too. I want to see what it looks like on the inside. 76 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:28,270 Not that special. Okay, it does bleed through a little bit on the white fan. 77 00:05:28,270 --> 00:05:34,700 Okay, so according to their website, this supports Aura Sync, the MSI one, the Gigabyte one. 78 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:39,630 It probably also supports the Razer one. It's basically, if your motherboard has an RGB header on it, 79 00:05:39,630 --> 00:05:44,010 it's gonna support whatever software. I loaded up Aura Sync and we've got it synced up 80 00:05:44,010 --> 00:05:47,090 with our RAM and our motherboard. So I want to go like a static color. 81 00:05:47,090 --> 00:05:50,473 I kinda want to see what it looks like just white. Okay. 82 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,270 Hmm. Looks okay. Man, I'm kind of struggling here. 83 00:05:55,270 --> 00:06:00,310 I think the only use case for these is if you are absolute, hardcore, 84 00:06:00,310 --> 00:06:05,410 must-have-the-best Noctua fans. What else do we got here? We got Rainbow. 85 00:06:05,410 --> 00:06:10,723 Yeah, it's not that great of an effect. What? Really? Wow, some of these effects are kinda bad. 86 00:06:11,637 --> 00:06:16,030 "Glowing Yoyo." It's just dim. (laughing) Like, what? 87 00:06:16,030 --> 00:06:20,183 Yeah, I mean... I kinda like it, but, ah. 88 00:06:21,020 --> 00:06:26,150 If they were five bucks each or you could buy a pack of four for like 20 bucks. 89 00:06:26,150 --> 00:06:30,530 Ah, I don't know, man. I think we at least achieved the goal 90 00:06:30,530 --> 00:06:34,300 of making a Noctua fan RGB. 91 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:38,560 But probably gonna give this a pass unless you're just super anal. 92 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,410 If you're looking for something else to watch that's computer hardware-related, why don't you check out my unboxing 93 00:06:42,410 --> 00:06:45,700 of an AMD Epyc server with 128 cores. 94 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:49,900 That was pretty sweet. It definitely didn't have any RGB, so maybe we could've used these.