GELID Solutions Wing 12PL Green UV LED 120mm Fan Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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755 words · ~3 min read
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this will be a relatively quick unboxing I don't know if I've mentioned this on
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my video blog before but I'm a big fan of GED wi fans I really really like them
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they undervolt extremely well which is to say they don't tick or hum when you
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turn down the voltage to get them to quiet down and they're also uh
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reasonably quiet when they are running at full speed so um this is a new
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updated version of the GED Wing this is the wing PL series which means that it
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is a pwm fan with an LED so it has all
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kinds of cool features so pwm control and LED light uh Nano flux bearing so
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what pwm control means is that your uh lights won't get more Dim when you uh
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when you lower the voltage or rather when you lower the speed if you use pwm
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control you can still use voltage control on a pwm fan it's just I mean
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you got the feature there you might as well use it so here's some UV reactive
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fan Mount all right so I'll show you those under UV light in just a moment
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and then here is the fan with the U reactive blades as well as white LEDs
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mounted in the housing so you can see where the LEDs are mounted behind the
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fan so I'm just going to take you over into the other room here where I have my
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computer set up with uh there's a cat yeah that's right you move where I have
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my computer set up with UV lights inside it so you can see I got my uh my wing 90
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mm as well as my wing 120 mm fans up in
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the top there those are not spinning for a reason it's my fan control that turned
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them off so there's the UV reactive uh
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fan mounts so that would be kind of a neat uh neat way to mount these instead
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of the black ones that I have in there now maybe I should try and get my hands
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on some blue ones of these those are nice and then here is the uh the UV
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reactive green fan so once I put it in there it glows that's why I have these
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purple lights for those of you who don't know how UV works and no uh regular
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cathode lights like white blue red they will not make stuff glow like this you
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have to use UV in order to get this effect which I personally really like
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but it's not for everyone so hold on give me two seconds I'm just going to
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adjust my camera so hopefully I can kind of point it at what I'm doing
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here and I just want to plug this fan into my motherboard so that I can uh
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show you guys what it looks like with the LEDs lit and I have no idea what
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that's going to look like so we're all going to find out together because
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that's the beauty of this channel unscripted uncens
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unprofessional sometimes but what are you going to do so there you have it
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that is the uh White LEDs on the fan so
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basically it's kind of like uh the the glow is very similar to what you get
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from the UV but you can see now that UV
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light is completely unnecessary so for
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someone like me who's using UV in their rig for a more subtle lighting effect uh
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versus bright LEDs I would probably stick with the regular Wing series fans
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you can see how right that makes the inside and it's really going to diminish
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the UV effect on um on anything else
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because one of the disadvantages of UV is that as soon as you introduce any
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other light sources you're going to really really cut down on that glowing
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effect so you can see it glows pretty freely by itself but you go ahead and
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you put like a bright light source next to it and uh that glow is going to be
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really reduced I don't know how well you guys can see this but there's only so
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much I can do so thank you for checking out my unboxing
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and first impressions of the GED Wing
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12pl fan