Antec Advance True Quiet Pro 120mm Cooling Fan Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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antech has something very very cool here
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today I know it's just a fan but there's actually a lot of innovation in this fan
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that I think is absolutely fascinating so they're calling this the antech
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advance true quiet Pro 120 they're
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saying it provides maximum cooling with minimal noise which is pretty much the
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same claim that anyone who makes a fan pretty much claims okay but I think they
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have something to back it up here this is a 600/1 1200 RPM fan on the back it
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says unique framed fan blade provides Superior air flow and minimal turbulence
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and I'll show you guys why that is and that's pretty much it that's it for the
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packaging so let's open it up and let's have a look at this fan now I've already
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had one of these open I don't know if it was this one or if it was the other one
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but I've already had one of them open and I'm going to tell you guys I'll
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spoil the surprise I am very very impressed by this particular fan because
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it does a whole lot of things right and not a whole lot wrong so first thing
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let's have a look at the accessories so we've got a Molex four pin to three pin
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adapter with an RPM monitoring wire we
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have six hm six fan Mount grommet things
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that are very robust feeling so you go ahead and you thread that through the
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fan and then whatever you happen to want to mount it to let's go ahead and put
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that there you you can pull that through it's not going to break how many of you
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guys have had these break on you before and there you go you're going to be able
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to mount that to whatever you want with a nice vibration proof Mount So speaking
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of vibration proof let's get to the fan itself on both sides of the fan it has
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sorry about that guys Okay so we've got great quality grommets on both sides of
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the fan which means so whether you are mounting it somewhere as an intake or
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whether you're mounting it to the back of your case as an exhaust you're going to have a nice vibration I won't say
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vibration proof but very low vibration
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Mount I mean can you guys see how much mush there is in there I'm expecting
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very little vibration to be transferred from the fan to whatever it happens to
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be mounted to in this situation okay
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another cool thing to show you guys here is the fact that the fan is actually
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mounted very very um very very Loosely
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but the frame itself in spite of being so small is still very solid so you can
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actually take here give me give me two seconds I'll back just to look at the fan for a second I'll be back I'm going
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to show you guys what I would consider to be a low quality fan so this one this
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guy right here so check out how much Flex I'm going to try and apply about
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the same amount of force so check out how much Flex there is in the frame can you see that at all can you see the flex
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okay so now I'm going to show you guys this antech fan in spite of its small
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frame you can see it's probably got about the same amount of flex to it and
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uh that's just comes from higher quality materials there's nothing you can really
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uh substitute for that when you are building a fan okay next thing that's
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really cool check this out you guys so I am going to line up the very
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edge of the blades on this uh noname fan
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here hold on give me a second here guys
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and what you are going to see hold on
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blades blades are not quite lined up there we go what you're going to see is
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that the antech fan actually extends
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past there with the blade so by cutting
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away the frame antec has cut they've left the square frame here but they
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actually have blades that go almost all the way out to the edge of a 120 mm fan
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um spec so the the the confines of a 120
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ml spot they have extended the fan
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almost completely to the edge they have also reduced the size of the Hub in the
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middle so what does that give you that gives you more surface area for well not
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really surface area but it gives you more area to push air through versus
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fans that have uh you know see this Gap
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here see this thicker frame see the huge
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Hub there's just not as much space to push air around as there is with
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something like the true quiet Pro 120 the true quiet Pro 120 also includes a
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low and a high setting on a little switch here that's pretty typical of antech and then a sleeved three pin
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connector now why am I so excited about
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this this because when I plugged it in this thing is so freaking quiet I have
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been wondering for the longest time because it doesn't seem to me that you
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need a motor this big to drive a fan
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which weighs almost nothing at 12200 to 1500 RPM so anch has gone ahead and
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they've put in a not very powerful motor
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in here because powerful Motors are going to be louder okay so they've put a
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not very powerful motor in here that is capable of starting the fan so once it's
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sted this fan actually has a ton of momentum
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because of the weight that is attached
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to the outside of the blades so this fan
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here well whatever this isn't going to be an exact demo but this fan stops
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spinning fairly quickly because there's not a whole lot of weight to it whereas
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this fan once it gets going oh I'm having trouble holding it without uh
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without touching the fan oops this fan is going to spin for a much longer time
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and so it doesn't take much force to keep it spinning which means you can use
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a nice quiet motor to keep it going that doesn't have that grinding that motor
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that running noise so all you hear is the gentle whoosh of air which I have
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tested in real life scenario already and it does work so thank you for checking
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out my unboxing and first look and gushing about the true quiet Pro 120 I'm
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very impressed by this thing very excited it is a boon to enthusiasts of
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Silence everywhere thank you antech for releasing it and don't forget to
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