WEBVTT 00:00:00.170 --> 00:00:03.490 - It's an age-old question, at least in the modern age: 00:00:03.490 --> 00:00:09.230 to RGB, or to not RGB? Well, today, we have just the solution. 00:00:09.230 --> 00:00:14.520 You can take your not-RGB and apparently make it RGB. 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, 00:00:18.830 --> 00:00:23.190 something that is traditionally never RGB, and I swear that they'll probably never 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. 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. 00:00:34.969 --> 00:00:38.050 ♪ Cha ♪ Oh my god, that's not even in the middle. 00:00:38.050 --> 00:00:41.790 (laughing) What is that? Look at that. "Made from one single piece of aluminum." 00:00:41.790 --> 00:00:46.790 So this is supposed to be a really nice CNC-milled piece. 00:00:47.860 --> 00:00:51.630 You can see on the back it's got sort of a diffused ring. 00:00:51.630 --> 00:00:55.433 And I think there's 18 LEDs in here? 30 LEDs. Wow. 00:00:55.433 --> 00:00:59.140 "Illuminate any fan. Fan screws included to mount halos directly onto the fan." 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... 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, 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. 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. 00:01:17.023 --> 00:01:22.570 Oh. (laughs) With Noctua fans and their little rubber bumpers... 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. 00:01:26.330 --> 00:01:30.300 Yeah, you gotta wear protection. Protect your fans. 00:01:30.300 --> 00:01:34.250 It looks pretty sleek, hey? Yeah, this is good. Nice and simple. 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. 00:01:40.710 --> 00:01:44.680 Okay, so it is not like your standard 00:01:45.830 --> 00:01:51.100 sort of 4-pin RGB layout. They do seem to have their own connector. 00:01:51.100 --> 00:01:56.540 But they do include an adapter cable, so you can take their proprietary-ish connector 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, 00:01:59.870 --> 00:02:03.950 you could get an addressable RGB splitter and then you'd wire it into this 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, 00:02:07.610 --> 00:02:12.410 you can daisy chain them, which is pretty nice. This seems like sort of a solution... 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 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 00:02:21.597 --> 00:02:25.370 $40 a fan on RGB fans, but also still want RGB. 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, 00:02:29.650 --> 00:02:32.670 so I think there is only one school of thought, 00:02:32.670 --> 00:02:36.490 and that is that you like Noctua fans and you want them to be RGB. 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, 00:02:40.710 --> 00:02:43.750 to install these you're gonna be taking a fan out, 00:02:43.750 --> 00:02:47.220 putting it in between, sticking it back in, and then rewiring it anyways, 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. 00:02:52.610 --> 00:02:56.240 So you got your fan here. Eh? Eh? 00:02:56.240 --> 00:03:01.770 I'm done. That was pretty easy. I love RGB. Oh, no. (whimpers) 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. 00:03:07.930 --> 00:03:12.090 If you were to put it on this side, it would be pretty much the same. 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. 00:03:16.340 --> 00:03:19.620 In most cases, usually the fans, 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. 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:26.490 But if you were to install these maybe on the back fan, 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 00:03:30.630 --> 00:03:33.940 is that you're not gonna have RGB on the back of your fan, 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 00:03:38.470 --> 00:03:42.300 as their only light source in their computer, rather than having, say, strips on the inside 00:03:42.300 --> 00:03:46.820 and then fans on the front. They just use the back glow of an RGB fan 00:03:46.820 --> 00:03:50.520 to light the inside of the computer. You'll get that a bit through, 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:53.640 but I don't think it's gonna have the same ambience 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, 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, 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 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. 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. 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 00:04:21.210 --> 00:04:25.600 and then just on the one side on the white fan. 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First glance, the black one, it's not that lit up. 00:05:02.420 --> 00:05:06.010 But you can see the ring, which kinda looks cool in its own sense. 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, 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:15.540 especially with the back light too. It almost looks like an infinity mirror or something. 00:05:15.540 --> 00:05:18.700 Yeah, you're definitely gonna get more RGB effect 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. 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:28.270 Not that special. Okay, it does bleed through a little bit on the white fan. 00:05:28.270 --> 00:05:34.700 Okay, so according to their website, this supports Aura Sync, the MSI one, the Gigabyte one. 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, 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 00:05:44.010 --> 00:05:47.090 with our RAM and our motherboard. So I want to go like a static color. 00:05:47.090 --> 00:05:50.473 I kinda want to see what it looks like just white. Okay. 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:55.270 Hmm. Looks okay. Man, I'm kind of struggling here. 00:05:55.270 --> 00:06:00.310 I think the only use case for these is if you are absolute, hardcore, 00:06:00.310 --> 00:06:05.410 must-have-the-best Noctua fans. What else do we got here? We got Rainbow. 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. 00:06:11.637 --> 00:06:16.030 "Glowing Yoyo." It's just dim. (laughing) Like, what? 00:06:16.030 --> 00:06:20.183 Yeah, I mean... I kinda like it, but, ah. 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. 00:06:26.150 --> 00:06:30.530 Ah, I don't know, man. I think we at least achieved the goal 00:06:30.530 --> 00:06:34.300 of making a Noctua fan RGB. 00:06:34.300 --> 00:06:38.560 But probably gonna give this a pass unless you're just super anal. 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 00:06:42.410 --> 00:06:45.700 of an AMD Epyc server with 128 cores. 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.