There is no way these can really be this cheap...

we all know that one of the best ways to make your system look custom is to add lighting and we know that one of the most expensive ways to do that is to get RGB fans so what happens when you order some of the cheapest RGB fans that you could possibly buy on Amazon what you do we reviewed about it that's what you do okay we're gonna look at the easy DIY fab fans looking for a new PC or PC hardware then today's sponsor micro Center is guaranteed to have what you need micro centers huge selection of hardware and devices along with their industry-leading prices mean you get more for your money this holiday season with build your own micro Center carries the latest in PC tech from all major brands while passionate knowledgeable sales staff are available to assist you with your next build not comfortable building it yourself then certified in-store technicians can build it for you in as little as the same day to see all that micro Center has to offer and to find the store closest to you click the sponsor link in the description below so this is what you get right here is a pretty basic black box I ordered two sets of them because look I only want to tell you what the price is because I kind of want you guys to go into the description and look for yourself because one I did buy them off Amazon and there is an affiliate link there and two prices seemed to change when we do reviews it's weird we did a review of the deep cool or the land cool - case for only 89 bucks and then suddenly like the price went up like 130 so anyway just a basic black box which you might expect from a company that's probably they're probably making fans for someone out there and this is obviously a China brand that is like probably an OEM or an OD M for something else which means they're making fans and they're like well we're going to take the design and make our own which happens all over the place and something else on the back too is it does say right here that please test it first if anything's wrong contact us you can get our information also by using the key art QR code so that's kind of nice to have on the box at least it's says specifically to email them or contact them on Amazon or Facebook so they don't even have like a direct Wow get a manual so this is a 5 set there's 5 fans in here that shows 3 on here but it comes with a 10 fan control box that also plugs into SATA and also has a RGB which works with mystic light and Aurra which are the 3-pin argb headers it does not work with your standard 12 volt 4 pins it doesn't work with your three pin fat fantex our gigabyte headers it shows you right here in the manual but it also comes with a remote control and what's cool about that is if you're doing a basic type of build and you're not running with one of these high end motherboards with RGB built in and a RGB headers and such then you can still have your modes and your lights controlled by this remote control you can also control fan speed this way so that's kind of nice because you can simply turn it up and turn it down with your remote control and not have to worry about setting up any custom fan profiles if you don't want to here is what's in the box the first thing I'm gonna say is that these fans are built way beefier than I for a second thing I was like the only give me four but there's one of my hand they're built way beefier than I was expecting I don't know what kind of plastic it is but they do have a very coarse air look if you will like these look like the same corners you'd find on a corsair fan they are rubber padded so that's gonna help with vibrations once again it says how many volts it is but it does not tell me what RPM I could not find any information on the website about the static pressure the only thing I could tell you right now is that it is a dynamic fluid bearing let me let me kind of explain this a little bit before we move on to the actual testing of this hydraulic bearings basically mean that the the impeller or fan blade shaft that goes into the motor has a layer of fluid around it to keep it from touching the side to keep it centered and give it something slick to rotate on the other types of bearings that you're gonna find out there are ball bearing which are pretty self-explanatory there's a whole ring of balls that the shaft goes down the middle of and then those balls rotate which give it a nice smooth and their oil davia sliwa gives it a nice smooth service to rotate on shut up Phil there's a sleeve bearing which is basically the same type of thing as a ball bearing only it's a longer more of a cylindrical sleeve that's doing the the gap filling the rolls-royce type of bearing that you'll find out there specifically with some of the corsair fans which is the Maglev which uses magnets to levitate or their maglev is what they referred to as to levitate the fan hub from basically touching anything through magnetism some hydraulic bearing fans will have a lot of slop in movement this seems to be pretty normal I mean it doesn't seem like it's moving in and out too too much that's pretty appropriate there if I grab one of these fans over here this is actually one of the corsair maglev fans okay so it's maybe half but that makes sense too because the tolerances are a lot tighter with magnets and they're gonna be with the fluid bearings you actually had to have some thickness of fluid in there to do its job the other thing that's a little bit of a drawback of this is the fact that they are using a proprietary connector so the RGB and the fan power and the PWM and all that are and I don't even know if the PWM controlled what to see I don't think they are you have to use their control box so what you're gonna kind of deal with here is potential points of failure if this box goes bad you're up to ten fans connected to it will also not work fortunately though if you do like I did with how inexpensive these are you buy two sets so you have spare fans and spare controller or just outfit as many fans as you can in your system so it's got up to ten fans and then this is LED one and led two because this particular brand does also sell RGB strips so you can add to our GB strips to this and ten fans and it connects to your system only through the a RGB header which is right here that does not have to be used cuz like I said we have the remote control and then it's got SATA power at least it's got SATA some of these brands are still using molex which was really stupid but as you can see there's no way to actually connect these fans to your motherboard for PWM or software control so that's kind of some of the trade-off that you get by going with a super inexpensive brand like this to get you know your RGB and five fans and a controller is you give up any sort of software control so the only way you're gonna be able to control these is through the remote control anyway we need to go ahead and get these kind of set up we need to come up with some sort of a flow test here to check I do not have any idea what these rpms are and it doesn't matter if I hooked it up to a computer to see what the RPM readout says because you can't cuz it just showed you that so as we move into this remember there is no information whatsoever regarding CFM RPM static pressure and none of that I can tell you the blades look like they're kind of a mixture of airflow and static pressure we will be sticking them onto a radiator as well to see how well they can move air through a rad this is one of the visual tests I always do with fans is just a piece of paper what I do is I bend it back and forth the whole bunch so it could freely hinge and then just push it down so it sits straight and I'm doing it right across the middle of the hub not the highest static pressure which would be right here on the side I kind of want to see how it handles it right here we know that they're going to well Jay you're an idiot because it goes out this side of the fan so let's go ahead and move that around to the right side of the fan where the exhaust actually is phil has an idea though something we're gonna try and do to figure out what the RPM is at max because he has a sound tuner that will listen to the frequency of something so we're gonna snip the piece of paper in so it goes like like that cuz I'm having a stroke apparently and then his app will actually tell him how many times per minute it's doing that and then we will do the math to figure out what that is in our p.m. for the fan of per second or per second and then we can times that by 60 to find out per minute right so we're plugged in the SATA and nothing's plugged into the RGB I think probably to pull out a little battery think please tell me it came with a battery oh there it is right there so yeah I pull that out which now makes the battery have contacts so white actually looks white so one of the things I've dealt with on cheap RGB like lights and strips and stuff I've tried before from some of the China brands like you get on Amazon for a go floor light and stuff so white will sometimes look green or sometimes a glue because imbalance of the three are the three LEDs that looks pretty white what do you think though dude it's so bright all right so Phil's colorblind I mean this isn't fair to him that and that are the exact same color and then that is slightly gold and then that's orange and that's red there are literally two okay no it is changing like a single shade that's more of like a neon yellow that's more of a golden yellow that's gold that's orange that's really red dude that's still a lot of air coming through there okay we saw how much the flow changed right okay okay let's push pull Wow you get all the pressure back and there's no noise is that any of the creation of just how much when there is watch the thing is with how inexpensive these are you could do push pull and still have a fan left over for your rear and then grab another set for the rest of your system and all those fans will plug into your control box then you have a spare control box because you can do ten on one okay so one of the things we did which is super unscientific but gave us some sort of an idea of what the RPMs are going I took the paper I fold it over a bunch and then I held it right against the edge of the hub Phil's got his what is it the omni tuner about 195 195 divided by how many weights nine nine so that's 21 RPS times 60 about 1300 rpm so I was guessing around 12 not back because I was I was torn between 12 and 15 so being 13 actually makes a whole lot of sense so it's about a 1300 rpm with no resistance now let's talk about whether not you should buy these obviously the bearing design is all about hydraulic bearing for a second hydraulic bearing is extremely susceptible to dust and dirt so if you're not writing them filtered and overtime dust and dirt make their way into the hub it'll gum it up the fan will slow down the bearing will start to seize and you'll get the fans starting to move around and Clank and make all sorts of funky noise the other thing is that hydraulic bearings don't like being mounted like this as much as they like being mounted horizontal doesn't matter if it's up or down just this keeps things nice and even for the bearing when you set it like this you get a little bit more tension on the bottom than you do on the top and so what will happen is over time it could wear the seal slightly and you could end up losing your hydraulic fluid that's the number one failure of hydraulic bearing fans is failure or leak or a hydraulic fluid leakage also any way that dust can get in there causing a gap like this or having it have a little bit more tension on one side and the other now in terms of side-to-side play there is none in this and this isn't something that's gonna happen right away this would be if you leave your computer on 24/7 every day after a couple of years you might notice there's a little bit more play in that and so not I'm not going in and out into up and down if you know anything about wheel bearings and cars it's kind of the same thing so anyway that dust can start to get in there would start to wear down the bearing now it says it has 30,000 hours of rated life now if you understand how raiding works they would take let's say a hundred of these fans and they put them in a room and they test them and then they measure at what point 50% of them have failed at that time frame is what they then considered to be the expected life is the life expectancy some may make it 60,000 hours some may have failed at 20,000 hours but at 30,000 hours is what they rated specifically when 50% of the test subjects failed so that's how they come up - it's the same way bulbs it's the way they do their actual testing or their their rating I don't think that's something I should keep you from buying a hydraulic bearing fan hydraulic grade fans can't actually be serviced and they can be refilled but it's something I've never actually tried because they're usually cheap enough to where it's easier just to buy new ones if you made it this long into the video I'll go ahead and spoil it by saying the set of five cost $35 on Amazon there is a link down below it is my affiliate link so there would be a little bit kickback to the channel if you guys check him out I bought two sets or $70 is $29.99 less than what three Maglev fans cost from Corsair it also has a controller built in or cut that comes with it and if you bought two like this like I said you can control all 10 fans off a single controller and have a spare controller if something were to fail what about the controller longevity and lifespan either I can't tell you I can tell you that I have been running cheap LED strips and such in my home behind TVs and stuff for years that use these same they're little bit larger but these same super cheap and flimsy remote controls I can also tell you they almost all use the same frequency too so if you got a remote control from this guy who as a spare it would work with this one there it's not like they're separate frequencies for whatever tuner they're with I could take that remote control out and use that one but if you built a basic system and you want to spice it up and you want to get what appears to be decent air flow especially push-pull through a 30 mil radiator for 35 bucks for five fans that makes them seven dollars a fan if the controllers free let's call them six dollars a fan and the controller for cost five bucks that is a bargain so the thing about this company easy DIY they didn't sponsor any of this but they do have other types of fans so I went with the center hub with the LEDs or in the center very similar to the fractal design ones that I tried to take out for the Star Wars build and I mutilated and destroyed so they illuminate on this kind of a translucent white so it's not solid white it's like a clearish plastic if you will so you saw how the blades actually illuminated they looked really really good but the black housing or the smoked housing on the side and the rubber standoffs make them extremely quiet when you mount them to things the motor as you heard had a slight hum to it but it wasn't something intrusive I had to stick my face down to it in an open platform laying on the table so some of that sound was being reverberate it through the wood making it actually louder and amplified if you actually had these mounted in a case and they were closed the case was closed you would never hear these fans for the price I think it's worth the risk especially if you're running basic case fans that came with your case and you're not running a motherboard that has RGB control you can do that and you can get a really dope effect without having to spend an awful lot of money the other thing is the downside of them being specifically controlled by their own controller you can't plug these into the motherboard the a RGB right here is gonna control itself obviously through any header where Asus or a mystic light that used the three pin with the one space there we didn't test it today because quite honestly I'm this to me is for the person that is not running a motherboard with RGB on it and it has expandability for two strips and some of the sets they sell actually come with the two strips and it's like 42 dollars and you get two RGB strips with it that I think they were 30 centimeters long so yeah do you guys want to give these a shot the link is down the description below these were made pretty recent - January 6 2020 so they're not like they've even been sitting around in warehouses for very long if you're using these and you've used them for any length of time and you're watching this going oh yeah I use those fans they're great or I use those fans they suck sound off in the comments below and let people know what your use experience has been like with these the Amazon reviews were fairly positive but some very scathing negatives as well so far in just our test environment they all worked the controller worked we didn't test every single port I guess I could do that real quick and report back the other thing to consider too is going to be some of the quality regarding the actual hub design so what I talked about is gaps and overtime just working its way in if I spin this fan and feels gonna have to try and get in there you'll see the blades do have a wobble to them so that means they're not perfectly balanced and that's something that's kind of expected one with fluid bearings there's a little bit of play in the fluid a little bit compressibility and to just the overall quality of the parts being used at this price point they can't they're not going to be the quality of a twenty thirty dollar fan but it didn't vibrate and right now with them running the most annoying thing is that there's an inconsistency regarding the centering of the sticker so some look like they're smooth like that one and that one's like wobbling all over the place but when they're turning the fans do look pretty balanced so just something to talk about at 35 bucks for a set of five I think it's really difficult to get super picky with it anyway I saw these when I was scrolling through Amazon for something completely unrelated and I went I need to try those but for the price I went knowing my luck I might get a bad set so I ordered two now we're gonna put them in a build because how about the super ultra budget RGB build I knows when you want to smack me right now that's fine I want to smack me too alright guys thanks for watching link in description below if you guys want to learn more with his fans or give him a shot thanks for watching we'll see you next time

Channel: JayzTwoCents

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Length: 17min 32sec (1052 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 11 2020