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so today i'll be unboxing a silent x fan and the reason for this is mostly just

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to demonstrate what comes with them what kind of packaging they come with this

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particular one is a blue led fan that is rated at 14 decibels and 72 cfm which

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they say is the world's best noise to airflow ratio i believe that the ixtreme

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a pro series so 120 blah blah blah it's available without leds with red leds

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green leds and blue leds so why don't we have a look at the back here

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revolutionary fan design and the world's best noise to airflow ratio again okay

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so one of the reasons they say this works so well is because the motor here

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and you can see this on the fan itself compared to a normal 120 millimeter fan

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actually takes up very little space inside this 120 millimeter frame so what

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that means is more of this area is actually dedicated to pushing airflow

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okay and it also includes silicone composite fan mounts that dampen the

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vibration okay they say it's a silence exclusive but there are a lot of fans

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that come with those silicone mounts i'm guessing this is fairly old packaging at

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this point okay so inside we will find the little silicone fan mounts but

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they've also included screws if you prefer to use those or if you're mounting it on a CPU heatsink or

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whatever if there's a reason you need screws then it includes them you've also

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got a molex to three pin fan power adapter okay it's a nice little clear

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plastic wire one kind of like that for some reason then you've got a little

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piece of paper which appears to be a quick installation guide so they show

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you how to remove your existing fan place the silicone mounts in place the

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fan on it and then plug the fan into the motherboard thank you for that

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very few fans actually come with um with instruction manuals that's uh that's

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pretty cool okay so then there is the silence fan itself so you can see like i

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said this is a 120 millimeter fan it's got quite an aggressive shape to the

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blade so you can see that it would be designed more for pressure than for pure

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movement of air when you're not looking to move it through something like a heat

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sink or whatever else actually that's something i should mention is cfm versus

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static pressure so cfm is how many cubic feet of air per minute it will move if

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it's just running like into uh into an empty room whereas if you

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talk about static pressure if you're running it on a heatsink or a radiator

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or something that is going to provide restriction so dust filters restrictive

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fan grills things like that then that is going to be a far more care far more

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important characteristic of the fan this is an open corner fan so that means that

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anything that uses wire clips to mount to the fan you will be able to use some

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fans actually have this space all filled in so some mounting systems won't

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actually work with them you've got your oh i just hit myself in the face okay

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then you've got your little shiny silence sticker on the back you've got a

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reasonably long cord uh it's a three pin power connector thank you for checking

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out my unboxing of the silent x i extreme

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a pro fan