Thermalright X-Silent 140 140mm Case Fan Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,024 words · ~5 min read
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so along with the spitfire six uh GPU cooler which you can see to my right
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your left thermal right also sent me a fan to go with it the x silent 140. now
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the spitfire 6 is compatible out of the box with either a 120 or a 140
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millimeter fan but i thought i'd just take a moment and unbox this particular
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fan for your unboxing pleasure so it is high efficient and low noise by 11 wings
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design so what they mean is that it has 11 wings okay our wings up blades not
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wings uh liquid state bearing in 50 000 hour long 50 000 long life hours 7 volts
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of power usage can be adjusted via fan control device okay is a 140 by 140 by
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25 millimeter so this is a standard thickness fan it has a liquid stapler i
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don't know what a liquid state bearing is to be perfectly honest with you
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startup voltage is 7 volts that's pretty good
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typically very very very good fans will start up
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around 5 volts but 7 volts is still very respectable for a 140 millimeter fan
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especially because i'm thinking in terms of 120 mils rated current uh rated speed
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is 900 RPM you can read all this why am i even
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reading this out there you done reading good okay so let's unbox this fan and
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then i'm actually going to show the procedure to install it onto the
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spitfire 6 graphics card cooler so 140
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millimeter fans actually let me grab a 120 millimeter fan that i tossed out of
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the way when i was clearing my desk so i'll just grab that so this is a 140
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millimeter fan versus a 120 millimeter fan you can see it is quite a lot bigger
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so that means that just like moving from 80 to 120 millimeter you can just spin
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the blade slower and still get the same amount of cooling so this is kind of a
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smoked gray acrylic sort of look to it
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it's kind of nice and you've got a thermal right logo up in the middle here
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the frame itself is more of a more of an opaque black
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and this is interesting there are
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oh i get it there are holes um around this fan
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because this is not the led version but it looks like you could you could
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actually probably jury rig leds into this fan if you really wanted to
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um let's look around at the back so on the back you can see we've got the basic
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specs for the fan all right i've had enough talking about the fan let's talk
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about the sleeving on the cable so the sleeving on the cable is actually this
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is pretty darn good quality sleeving hey you know what so few companies have
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this figured out where they use a good quality sleeving a good quality heat
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shrink and then the cable you can't see the color of it so you can see they've
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sleeved right up to the end and you cannot see the color of the cables
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inside at all so i'm gonna set this up
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so that the fan is actually pushing air down onto my heatsink okay so i pull
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back the wire clips just like this i've already inserted them into the holes and
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i'll get the cameraman to have a look at um at the one on his side so give me two
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seconds here cameraman and i will get around to that side to show you so you
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can see there are holes on the side of the spitfire six there are two at the
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either end extremes so those are the 140 millimeter holes and then there are two
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more one here and one here right above these two heat pipes so that is for 120
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millimeter there's one more here and i have no idea what that's for so why
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don't we go ahead and put the fan down and you know what to be perfectly honest
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i'm pretty sure that thermal write includes um
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little rubber strips to dampen the noise but they would be in the
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um in the box right now and i don't have
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that handy so you can see it mounts quite you know what i wonder if that's
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what the foams are for well i'm not going to stress about it let's turn on
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the system and you can see how loud this fan is i don't have it plugged in yet
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but i'm going to plug it into one of the fan headers on the classified motherboard that i'm running here now
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something to note is that the compatibility for the spitfire six i was
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a little bit confused about it when i did my original video and uh so the
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compatibility is with the 5850 and the 5870 and this vrm module is also
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compatible with the 5850 and 5870 but what thermal write doesn't tell you
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because it's possible that they don't know is that this heatsink is also
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compatible with the ifinity 6 edition 5870 so that's the gig version of this
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card so if you look around at the back of the video card itself you gotta kind
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of get down at this angle here cameraman sorry about that thermal raid has
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actually included so many extra memory heatsinks that i was able to nope sorry
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about that that i was able to install it on the for on the two gig version of the
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card without having to buy any additional memory heatsinks so good on
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them for uh for going ahead and doing that anyway i wish i could show you some
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temperature settings but i don't have the drivers installed but thank you for
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checking out my unboxing of the x silent 140 as well as the installation onto the
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spitfire 6.