Fractal Design Silent Series 120mm Fan Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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551 words · ~2 min read
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so I've unboxed and had a look at a lot of fractal design products over the last
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little while this is going to be the last one this is the fractal design
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silent series fan and it comes in lots
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of different sizes but we're looking at the 120 mm one since that's bound to be
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the most popular it is rated at 1,000 RPM 15 DB and actually there's a bunch
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of other specs on the back so it's a 120x 120x 25 mm that means it's not an
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overly thick fan it rotates at 1,000 RPM
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and the noise is 15 DB air flow is 38.3
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okay why don't you actually just read it can you read that no zoom in more can
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you read it now excellent okay so there
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and the rubber fan mounts absorb vibrations so let's get this opened up
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and have a look in this particular unboxing assuming I can figure it out
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quickly enough on camera I'm actually going to plug it in and see just how
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loud this silent series fan is so first
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of all let's have a look at the accessor it
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includes four scre four screws and they're black so they'll match your
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black case if you have a black case um okay and then four rubber isolating
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noise isolating fan mounts actually these are kind of a unique design
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they're a little bit different from ones I've seen in the past so you see that
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they actually have like a gap in the middle so that does Something I'm
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assuming okay so then the fan is it's black and white which is the
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theme with a lot of their fans and cases
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and power supplies it has a sleeved connector which is always nice to see I
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hate those red yellow and black connectors it's just it looks really
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messy I mean here look at this this is a computer that I've worked on and haven't
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bothered to sleeve the cables I mean that's just awful not very nice at all
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so why don't we plug this in and I'm just going to kind of creep around the
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side here step over all of the mess I'm
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actually moving soon so it's everything's kind of all over the place
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at the moment so let's unplug the radiator fan oops and then plug in the
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ow the fan bit me and let's plug in this
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one so do you want to come a little bit closer camera person see if we
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can oh that's actually pretty quiet you're not going to you want to get the
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camera close so that you can actually hear it with the camera in theory even
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like way closer than that there you go so basically you can't hear it because
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the fans in this computer are actually quite a bit louder than this one y so
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it's very silent I'm not sure it moves a whole lot of air but there you go that's
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the unboxing and first look at the fractal design silent 120 mm fan