NZXT FN120 RB & FN140 RB Silent Case Cooling Fans Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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600 words · ~3 min read
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so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of a product I got in the mail
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these are a couple of NZXT fans and one
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of them is a 120 mm and one of them is a 140 mm so the first thing I'm going to
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do is the unboxing part fans are really easy to unbox you just open the
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box yeah there we go yes excellent okay
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so why don't we have a look at what's included as far as accessories go first
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you have oh H they're one screw short on
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this one you might say they're one screw short of a mounting system uh probably
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just an innocent mistake but it should be four screws included for mounting and
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then also one Molex to three pin fan
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power adapter so let's just kind of okay
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there you go so you plug in your Molex there and if you have a bunch of fans
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then you can take more than one of these and you can daisy chain them together so
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you just kind of plug this into here in
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theory yeah there you go and then you can power two fans you can plug in more
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fans okay so in terms of specs 120 mm
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fans because they're smaller by a substantial margin than 140 mm fans need
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to spin faster to move the same amount of air or you can move more air at the
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same noise level because the 140 mm fan
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can spin slower or spin the same speed and move more air either way okay
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they're both nine blade rifle bearing fans so they're long lasting they have
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sleev cables and this is something that NZXT has figured out that's so few other
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companies do is that using a higher quality sleeving helps you can't see the
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color of the cables at all and they use a nice long piece of heat shrink
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everyone else seems averse to using more than like 2 cm of heat shrink because
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apparently it costs a lot of money okay and then Here We Go the actual specs of
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the fans I'm just going to let you read that on your own should you so desire
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cameraman let me know when we're focused enough that they can pause it if they
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feel like it and there's another one here there you go that's good enough
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okay so why don't we just plug these fans in and then we can show you how
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loud they are uh more than anything else I guess
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we'll just be comparing the two fans against each other so I'm going to plug
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this in so that I can uh plug in both
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fans there we go so one here A camera
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get close so that you can you can hear the difference between fan on and fan
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off so you have to get really close to the
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fan that's pretty quiet there's no way you're going to be able to hear that
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okay and now let's try the next one I
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suspect we're going to have a very similar experience given that they're
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they're both rated for the same noise
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level yep so these are both fairly slow Finning spinning fans but as long as
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you've got uh a decent case that
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shouldn't be a problem so anyway there you go that's my unboxing of the NZXT
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performance fan series