Zalman ZM-F4 Quiet Fan SPEED UNBOXING SHOWDOWN Featuring Slick Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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today we'll be unboxing the Zalman ZM F4
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ultra quiet fan with antivibration silicone pins included and I am actually
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go oh okay okay we have two of these so
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we are going to do an unboxing off between me and slick so we're going to
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get the timer going here and I'm going to unbox one of them and he's going to
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unbox the other one no no no not at the same time keep your F hand in the camera
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um and then we're going to see who can
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actually unbox a fan the fastest so we're going to use the iPhone timer so
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slick go ahead hold on to that hold on to that don't don't bother showing it to them it's okay they'll they'll just have
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to trust us that we're taking time accurately they can always use their YouTube you know timer to to see who can
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unbox the fan the fastest so so um give me some kind of a signal when I can
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start okay
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oh this is harder than it look okay got to get mying
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off okay I've got the pins got to get everything arranged okay so you can't
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just take it out of the packaging you got to like silicone pins oh did I lose one oh
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fam okay there it is okay dime and Slick turned off the camera
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when I said dime as opposed to just turning off the stopwatch so what was my
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time slick my time was 22.2 seconds so
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uh I'm I'm going to do the okay okay no suspense time guys so I'm going to do
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the proper sort of unboxing of the fan what's cool about this 135 mm fan is it
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uses 120 mm holes very neat also you got
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these silicone they call them pins but what I really think they mean is like
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fan mounting
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dads all right I guess that's not really better so basically this goes into your
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case and it acts as like a uh rubber
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layer in between the actual fence so so no vibration can be passed to the case
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or the cooler or whatever ever else you're using also comes with zman's
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famous they were the first ones to start doing this if I recall correctly they're
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famous inline resistors so you can easily put the fan in quiet mode just by
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plugging this in and then plugging this into a header let's go and do a quick
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sound test with the fan uh before we get too much further ahead of ourselves here
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so I'm going to go ahead and plug this into one of the headers on this board
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that is a oh no I'll just do this to
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make my life easier because that way I'll know that it's a full speed
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header so we can get some idea of how quiet the fan actually is you know
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zman's fans are underrated out there to be perfectly honest just in terms of uh
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of quiet fans almost all of their fans
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don't sound stupid whereas there's lots of other companies that do make sort of
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stupid overly loud fans in that wow that's actually outstanding and
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that's without the low noise adapter it's pushing a decent amount of air I
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mean obviously this is very subjective um this is like sort of Linus's gut feel
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about how do the fan sounds how much air it's pushing uh one of the other great
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things about zoman fans is they tend to undervolt reasonably well because they
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come with an undervolting
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adapter I wish I could isolate some of the noise from the stupid computer that
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is darn near silent there is no motor noise to this fan
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whatsoever um bearing in mind though it's using a sleeve bearing they do tend
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to be very very quiet at the beginning and they can get a little bit louder over time also sleeve bearings aren't
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great for horizontal installations so you want to T typ use them uh where
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they're going to be vertical such as on a CPU Cooler whether it's this way or
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this way or whatever else on a radiator or something along those lines so now uh
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let's take a break and we will come back
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with Slick's attempt to beat my 22.2
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second time okay hold on I got to indicate to uh slick when to uh when to
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go for it here I'm just going to reset so remember guys my time is
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22.2 ready and
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go he doesn't stand a
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chance look at him he's already way
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behind does not stand a chance see he
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lost the silicone things I can't
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see that's only three oh I just got beat well thank you
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featuring slick with a bag on his head
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he needs the bag trust me oh