be quiet! Silent Wings 2 High German Designed Cooling Fan Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing in first look at the be quiet! silent Wings 2 no
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compromise silence and performance 120 mm fan virtually in audible at 15.7 DB
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Max okay super long life fluid Dynamic bearing with copper core good stuff
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highly effective air flow which has to do with the design of the rotors and
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blades and all that good stuff noise absorbing anti vibration concept this I
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want to check out three pin connector and fible installation options these all
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sound like good things virtually and audible reduction of mechanical noise
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newly developed vibration shoping M okay minimalization of electronic sound
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sources due to a high quality IC motor controller see this matters this is the
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kind of stuff that nobody actually spends money on when they're manufacturing their fans but it makes a
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big difference three-year manufacturer warranty and lifespan at 25c of
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300,000 hours which by the way is a lot that's like years like years and years
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and they claim it operates at 4 to 14
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volts DC a 4vt operation is very impressive very few fans will start out
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at 4 volts um I don't know if it'll start at 4 volts actually but if it
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operates at 4 volts at all that's still pretty good so the fluid Dynamic bearing
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with the copper core improves heat conductivity and reduces mechanical
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friction for a higher light span interesting use of high quality motor
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controller leads to minim minimizing electronic
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noise uh this is all the same stuff air slow optimized blades okay cool beans
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removable anti vibration mountings flexible mounting options including
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screwless installation in caseing components as well as mounting with screws okay so you can see it actually
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doesn't come with like any way to mount
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it see so what you have to do oh I love
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these These are the best see 12vt 5V 7vt all black wires
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perfect every fan should include this although then how would be quiet!
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set themselves apart from the others well they'd have to find a new way and
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that's how Innovation happens kids all right we got some rubber washers here we
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got some plastic pins so I'm assuming
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the washers have something to do with the
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pins all right and then these seem to
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have something to do with how to actually Mount the fan to something I'm
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probably going to need a minute here guys this is actually pretty cool so
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you've got a couple of different options you can see these can be turned around either way so you would screw a fan into
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the hard plastic so that would be a hard Mount and then these other pieces are
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for soft mounting so you use these plastic guys right here you put a washer
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on it first okay so that goes against your case so that there's rubber
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isolation between the hard plastic and your case and then the fan goes where it
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goes and you just put this in here and then the spacing will be just right to
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make it so there's not that much room for the metal and um you'll have a nice
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soft vibration free Mount nice high quality rubber as well so it's got some
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Flex to it which is where the anti vibration properties come from but it's also not just like cheesy and going to
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break as soon as you use it a couple times which we have run into in the past
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with uh with anti vibration mounts for f so I think that pretty much covers it
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other than just plugging it in cuz I'm just sort of curious
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now is it morbid curiosity
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for me fans come down to how much motor noise is there
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because
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wow you can barely
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hear you can actually barely hear the motor at
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all until you get your ear almost right next to it very nice hard to hard to
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subjectively judge sort of the air flow that it's pushing but they're quite well
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regarded you can see just little things like the overall quality of the construction even though there's not
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much to the outside rectangular frame um
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it still doesn't Flex very much at all
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which is uh which is outstanding like you look at uh you look at cheaper fans
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like for example actually these logic's ones are
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kind of outstanding in terms of flex but
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ah yes so the OEM Corsair ones the old ones you can just kind of oh actually
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those ones are not that bad either see if I can find find one you know I don't
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really hold on to the really bad stuff but you just have to believe me anch
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fans are decent too yeah you guys will just have to
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trust me on this one oh no this one there even with this bracket on it see
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that Flex that's a cheap
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fan so there you go um that pretty much
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wraps it up thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the silent
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excellent and it has a black connector and it will generally look awesome in
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