antech has something very very cool here
today I know it's just a fan but there's actually a lot of innovation in this fan
that I think is absolutely fascinating so they're calling this the antech
advance true quiet Pro 120 they're
saying it provides maximum cooling with minimal noise which is pretty much the
same claim that anyone who makes a fan pretty much claims okay but I think they
have something to back it up here this is a 600/1 1200 RPM fan on the back it
says unique framed fan blade provides Superior air flow and minimal turbulence
and I'll show you guys why that is and that's pretty much it that's it for the
packaging so let's open it up and let's have a look at this fan now I've already
had one of these open I don't know if it was this one or if it was the other one
but I've already had one of them open and I'm going to tell you guys I'll
spoil the surprise I am very very impressed by this particular fan because
it does a whole lot of things right and not a whole lot wrong so first thing
let's have a look at the accessories so we've got a Molex four pin to three pin
adapter with an RPM monitoring wire we
have six hm six fan Mount grommet things
that are very robust feeling so you go ahead and you thread that through the
fan and then whatever you happen to want to mount it to let's go ahead and put
that there you you can pull that through it's not going to break how many of you
guys have had these break on you before and there you go you're going to be able
to mount that to whatever you want with a nice vibration proof Mount So speaking
of vibration proof let's get to the fan itself on both sides of the fan it has
sorry about that guys Okay so we've got great quality grommets on both sides of
the fan which means so whether you are mounting it somewhere as an intake or
whether you're mounting it to the back of your case as an exhaust you're going to have a nice vibration I won't say
vibration proof but very low vibration
Mount I mean can you guys see how much mush there is in there I'm expecting
very little vibration to be transferred from the fan to whatever it happens to
be mounted to in this situation okay
another cool thing to show you guys here is the fact that the fan is actually
mounted very very um very very Loosely
but the frame itself in spite of being so small is still very solid so you can
actually take here give me give me two seconds I'll back just to look at the fan for a second I'll be back I'm going
to show you guys what I would consider to be a low quality fan so this one this
guy right here so check out how much Flex I'm going to try and apply about
the same amount of force so check out how much Flex there is in the frame can you see that at all can you see the flex
okay so now I'm going to show you guys this antech fan in spite of its small
frame you can see it's probably got about the same amount of flex to it and
uh that's just comes from higher quality materials there's nothing you can really
uh substitute for that when you are building a fan okay next thing that's
really cool check this out you guys so I am going to line up the very
edge of the blades on this uh noname fan
here hold on give me a second here guys
and what you are going to see hold on
blades blades are not quite lined up there we go what you're going to see is
that the antech fan actually extends
past there with the blade so by cutting
away the frame antec has cut they've left the square frame here but they
actually have blades that go almost all the way out to the edge of a 120 mm fan
um spec so the the the confines of a 120
ml spot they have extended the fan
almost completely to the edge they have also reduced the size of the Hub in the
middle so what does that give you that gives you more surface area for well not
really surface area but it gives you more area to push air through versus
fans that have uh you know see this Gap
here see this thicker frame see the huge
Hub there's just not as much space to push air around as there is with
something like the true quiet Pro 120 the true quiet Pro 120 also includes a
low and a high setting on a little switch here that's pretty typical of antech and then a sleeved three pin
connector now why am I so excited about
this this because when I plugged it in this thing is so freaking quiet I have
been wondering for the longest time because it doesn't seem to me that you
need a motor this big to drive a fan
which weighs almost nothing at 12200 to 1500 RPM so anch has gone ahead and
they've put in a not very powerful motor
in here because powerful Motors are going to be louder okay so they've put a
not very powerful motor in here that is capable of starting the fan so once it's
sted this fan actually has a ton of momentum
because of the weight that is attached
to the outside of the blades so this fan
here well whatever this isn't going to be an exact demo but this fan stops
spinning fairly quickly because there's not a whole lot of weight to it whereas
this fan once it gets going oh I'm having trouble holding it without uh
without touching the fan oops this fan is going to spin for a much longer time
and so it doesn't take much force to keep it spinning which means you can use
a nice quiet motor to keep it going that doesn't have that grinding that motor
that running noise so all you hear is the gentle whoosh of air which I have
tested in real life scenario already and it does work so thank you for checking
out my unboxing and first look and gushing about the true quiet Pro 120 I'm
very impressed by this thing very excited it is a boon to enthusiasts of
Silence everywhere thank you antech for releasing it and don't forget to
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