possibly the BEST fan I have seen | Fan Showdown S3E8

hey it's fan showdown season 3 episode 8 time so how long has it been since we took a look at some of your guys's fan designs and our never-ending quest to find the best cooling fan the world has ever seen or at the very least just have like a fun time along the way now this is your first time here and you're a bit confused about what's going on this is the fan showdown it's a series i run on my channel where you out there try your hand at designing what you think the best pc cooling fan should be you then take those designs you send them to me i print them out and we all have we all have a good time so if you're interested in joining the fray check the link in the description below all the information you need to get in on the action is down there and for now let's get in the game thank you to lester for sponsoring this video if you're like me most of your shopping happens online however sometimes it's hard to figure out if you're really getting the best product for your money and 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technically he said he said 46 but um six were small blades on the inside of this hub to be like impellers and they were very thin and my printer had had a hard time making it happen this is the monstrosity and it was designed by tyler and it may be the highest blade count fan we have ever seen on the channel the blades are arranged in two rows of 20 with a slight offset the blades have a nice airfoil profile and are aligned in such a way that the upper blades help feed the lower blades now to me it looks a bit cramped i'm not sure how it's going to do performance wise but i'm really interested to see how it sounds do you want to try that again i'm interested to hear how it sounds from our experiments in the past we know that normally high blade count fans are higher pitched so i'm interested to see how 40 blades will sound especially when they're arranged in such a unique configuration now if the monstrosity should be high pitched or we think it's going to be high pitched this next one should be quite the opposite this is the tri-mask and it was created by sweaty and the design for this fan was inspired by like a face mask like one of those opera opera ones like a surprised opera face mask this fan has three large blades with two eye holes in each one now normally a three bladed fan such as this would do decently but now that we have these holes in it i'm wondering what that does does it hurt performance does it help performance more importantly what does it do sound wise do you think those little holes will make like a whistling sound or something i don't know but from a fan inspired by a mask we move to a fan inspired by a machine whose operator wears a mask you suck yeah this is the t-33 mark iii and it was created by jason and it's just one of those fans you look at and you're like oh jason came to play the t-33 mark iii was inspired by the lockheed t-33 shooting star which was produced from 1948 to 1959 the t-33 was the aircraft used by the united states air force's undergraduate pilot training program until it was eventually phased out by the t-37 tweet and the t-38 talent in the 60s but you know what's even more interesting is that there was a variant of the shooting star the t-33b that was being operated by the bolivian air force up until 2017. now jason didn't say what part of the fan what part of the plane inspired his fan but i would assume it was its wings the best part though is this fan was exceptionally easy to print and it came out looking great like the finish it just looks good it's like the perfect thickness where my printer's like oh i got it it looks like this thing is going to be a powerhouse of performance the best part was it printed quickly which is something that can't be said about this next one this monstrous print took 36 hours like twice because if you watched my previous video you know that the first one didn't really come out that well this is the shredder and it was created by drees now the shredder was inspired by a roof exhaust ventilator specifically the roof turbines this is actually the second time we've seen a fan inspired by roof turbines i didn't know they were so popular still now these vents are designed in such a way that it like when the wind blows past them they spin and the spinning helps draw hot humid air out of like a tight space normally an attic now i will say this thing does look sweet but it it was a pain to print the biggest issue i had with the shredder was um its thickness like the monstrosity these little tiny blades in the monstrosities hub there was some features on this fan that were like one layer thick which which makes for a really light fan which is good but it also makes for a very fragile fan it's very hard to print the final print quality isn't ideal and as a sanity check i printed a little benchy afterwards because that's what you do if you don't know if your printer's working you print boats and the bench came out beautifully so i think that the lackluster finish was kind of down to using a .04 millimeter nozzle with this specific layer or wall thickness i think if i would have dropped it to like a 0.2 millimeter nozzle it would have printed much much better but i also would have died of old age just waiting on it to finish so this is what we got do you like it oh i like it wow but moving on to sound many of you asked me in past videos to see the sound floor of this room before we tested the fans and i have listened so today's sound floor 27 dba or right around there as for fans the monstrosity came in at 47.8 dba which isn't crazy loud but if you look at the spectrum you can see that most of the sound being produced falls right around 30 hertz which i found very fascinating i mean look at that mount everest peak right there the tri-mask came in around 46.8 dba which is which again pretty quiet but if you look at the spectrum it had six different level peaks or sound level peaks around 40 80 120 250 370 and 500 hertz which begs a question what do you think think's more annoying do you think it's more annoying to listen to a fan that has like one predominant frequency that it uh you can hear or one that has like six that are kind of blended together i would be inclined to think that one singular frequency would be much more annoying but i'd be interested to know what you think the t-33 mark iii came in around 39.2 dba which is really good and the best part is though the the spectrum is much smoother with the frequencies that stick out being 30 and 220 hertz the shredder came in at 46.2 which again not super loud but the shredder had a lot of vibration had to deal with but even so it had the smoothest spectrum curve of all the fans we've tested it was the closest to being like white noise and in my opinion listening to all these in real life here it was the easiest on the ear when it came to the flow test the shredder did reasonably well drawing in quite a bit of air with its large intake however it didn't really do so well when it came to accelerating that air out the back instead the shredder produced mostly low velocity turbulent flow the tri-mask did pretty well it didn't seem to draw in as much air as a shredder but the air that it did draw in was accelerated much better out the back and the velocity looked higher and the flow was much more was much tighter the monstrosity did a decent job drawing an air but it kind of looked like it was being choked by itself and the air that it did pull in wasn't really accelerated that well and although it might have been better than the shredder it i don't know it just seems like it wasn't moving as much air as it should now the t33 mark iii on the other hand it killed it it looked like it was hoovering up more air than all the other fans additionally all the air that it took in it did a great job accelerating that air mass out the back of the fan to me it looked like it was moving more air than all the other fans and that flow out the back looks like a laser beam look at it so far the t-33 is stacking up to be an absolute killer it prints good it prints easily it's quiet it pushes air around like nobody's business i mean what else could you want if this thing cools it could be good the monstrosity came in with an average temperature of 81.8 at a room temperature of 20 giving us a delta of 61.8 the tri-mask came in with an average temperature of 82.2 at a room temperature of 20 giving us a delta of 62.2 the t-33 mark iii came with an average temperature of 77.1 at a room temperature of 20.7 give us a delta of 56.4 and the shredder came in with an average temperature of 80.7 at a room temperature of 20.5 giving us a delta of 60.2 placing the t-33 mark iii in first place the shredder and second the monstrosity in third and the tri-mask and fourth overall though the t-33 placed second only behind the a-12 x-25 which really we don't count on the board and the cheater which is actually incredible the t33 to me is probably one of the best fans we have tested at least in this season i mean it prints quickly it's quiet the finish is great the support material comes off great jason hats off you did you did a very good job with the design of this fan so thank you very much for watching if you want to get in on the action again check the link in the description below i have links to where you can find the critical dimensions you need to hit for all your fans so they fit on the a12x25 frame you can also find a model to use a template and where to send them you need to send me at least a stl file to the fan showdown at gmail.com print them out we'll have a good time and i'll see you next time

Channel: Major Hardware

Views: 73,995

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Id: f45AOv4FQbA

Length: 10min 47sec (647 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 12 2021