Scythe Gentle Typhoon Quiet Static Pressure PC Cooling Fan Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the scythe gentle typhoon series of fans so these
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are sort of more commonly known as scythe gts and they are very
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very very well regarded on the interwebs
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so i am led to believe okay hyper cooling nano vibration
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comfortable tone i think what they're trying to say is that they cool really
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well they don't vibrate very much and they
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are not loud okay so the noise that they make is is
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of a of a tonality that's not very disruptive to your enjoyment of using
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your computer they're available in a variety of different rpms so we've got a
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couple here today we've got the 1850 as well as the 1450 depending on what
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you're trying to do so these are rated for different uh airflow they're rated
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for different decibels okay they both have long life double ball bearing one
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hundred thousand hour rated bearings
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okay moving around to the back overall dimension okay let's see if
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there's anything interesting here um really
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they don't have a pressure rating that's
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weird because one of the things okay held on characteristics
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achieves high airflow volume and low noise with the newly designed impeller
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enabling silent cooling of the latest devices which run very hot impending so
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that means this and this design is like more new and
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more better and more different okay the gentle typhoon has a different type of
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tone the fan propeller is designed to reduce the disturbing frequency fan
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noise to human ears so reducing the frequency means it's more of a low hum
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instead of a high pitched wine the large-scale motor and motor support
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mechanism of the gentle typhoon uses a double vibration reduction structure
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okay the new support mechanism uses coil dampers to greatly reduce vibration
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cotton tendon okay so one of the things that is uh is always sort of you know
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weird to me is high-end fans that have a very large hub but you can see why
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scythe opted to do that because the hub effectively reduces the amount of
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cooling surface that you have for the fan but if
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that was what they had to do to reduce the vibration and build a very high quality bearing and motor and support
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structure then i guess that's what they had to do uses a nydex servo okay
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okay i think that's pretty much all there is to say fairly bare bones
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accessory package so you've got a four pin
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molex to three pin molex adapter you've got uh
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four screws and that is pretty much it so we will be using these to compare
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against Corsair's brand new static pressure sp 120 fans on a Corsair
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h-100 in a real system on the ncix tech tips channel to find out once and for
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all have Corsair's new fans dethroned
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what was considered to be the king of pressure fans because that is what
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gentle typhoons are really well known for on the forums is use on heatsinks as
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well as use in scenarios that require high static
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pressure so the design of the blades allows it to effectively push air
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through fins of radiators and heat sinks restrictive case intakes whatever the
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case may be these can push air through them as opposed to only being optimized
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for free-flowing scenarios so we're going to find out which one does better
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