G.Skill Turbulence RAM Fan Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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640 words · ~3 min read
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so today I have kind of a cool product to unbox it's a RAM fan but it's a neat
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looking one so everyone in their dog seems to have a RAM fan these days like
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Corsair has one ocz has one and now obviously this tape is stuck to me let
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go let
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go this is not working very well now obviously gskill has one there we go
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okay so we'll get this box opened up and have a look at this particular ramp fan
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the reason I like this one is that it is aesthetically I believe a
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little bit stronger than the other ones on the market even the cameraman who's
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like you know all into the Mac aesthetic likes this one okay so first of all we
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have a fan okay so you can see that this is a clear oh here we go 6 cm one ball
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bearing 3500 RPM fan so that's a 60 mm
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fan and it is sitting under like a
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little like shuriken style uh Grill this
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is actually this this uh gray part is actually kind of a rubberized grippy
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part so it has kind of a premium feel to it also it doesn't use a Cheesy mounting
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system like so many of the other ones do it just is it's a plastic piece it's got
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little foam grippy things on the inside can you see that cameraman yep so it's
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like pretty grippy there and then all you do is you stretch it out a little bit and you put it over your ramp slots
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it's like everyone else you seem to be like fiddling around with little thumb screws and stuff I can't figure out why
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so here why don't we go into the user guide and have a look uh so step one
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stretch out both sides of the fan module step two buckle one side on step three
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Buckle the other side step four plug the Fan's power connector into the three pin
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connector on your main board that was easy it has a oneyear warranty and oh
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this is another thing that really stands out everyone seems to think that it's
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okay to use cheap crappy sleeving on products it's not and so gskill is
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actually using a premium quality sleeving check that out you can't see
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any of the color of the cable inside even when you like move it around that
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just looks like a black cable kudos to G skill for using a proper quality
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sleeving on their product and I'm also going to do a quick installation guide
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in a classic case of lonus totally
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missing the point of demonstrating the latest technology rather than showing it
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on gskill rip Jaws memory which is what I should probably be doing see look how
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good they go together see you got that like from the top kind of thing anyway
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so I'm actually going to install this on an ancient ASRock motherboard for no
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particular reason so you stretch these
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out you clip on the one side so you can see the little foamy thing grips you
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stretch it out on the other side clip it on and it's just like that then you take
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your fan connector and you plug it into some available fan header it's that easy
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and it can cover up to you know what based on the spacing on this motherboard
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I'd say it covers up to six dims fairly comfortably on an average x58 board I
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mean really you don't need a lot of air flow on RAM anyhow so thank you for
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checking out my unboxing of the G skill turbulence
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fan for RAM