 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Be Quiet! Silent Wings II No Compromise Silencing Performance 120mm Fan. Virtually inaudible at 15.7 decibels max, okay? Super long life, fluid dynamic bearing with copper core, good stuff. Highly effective airflow which has to do with the design of the rotors and blades and all that good stuff. Noise absorbing, anti-vibration concept, this I want to check out. 3 pin connector and flexible installation options. These all sound like good things, virtually inaudible, reduction of mechanical noise, newly developed vibration source shock mounts, okay? Mineralization of electronic sound sources due to a high quality IC motor controller. See this matters, this is the kind of stuff that nobody actually spends money on when they're manufacturing their fans, but it makes a big difference. Three year manufacturer warranty and lifespan at 25C of 300,000 hours, which by the way is a lot. That's like years. Like years and years. And they claim it operates at 4 to 14 volts DC. A 4 volt operation is very impressive. Very few fans will start up at 4 volts. I don't know if it will start at 4 volts actually, but if it operates at 4 volts at all, that's still pretty good. So the fluid dynamic bearing with the copper core improves heat conductivity and reduces mechanical friction for a higher lifespan. Interesting. Use of high quality motor controller leads to minimalizing electronic noise. This is all the same stuff. Airflow optimized blades, okay. Cool beans, removable anti-vibration mounting, flexible mounting options including screwless installation and casing components as well as mounting the screws. Okay, so you can see it actually doesn't come with like any way to mount it, see? So what you have to do, oh I love these. These are the best. See? 12 volt, 5 volt, 7 volt, all black wires. Perfect. Every fan should include this. Although then, how would Be Quiet set themselves apart from the others? Well, they'd have to find a new way. And that's how innovation happens kids. Alright, we've got some rubber washers here. We've got some plastic pins. So I'm assuming the washers have something to do with the pins. Alright, and then these seem to have something to do with how to actually mount the fan to something. I'm probably going to need a minute here guys. This is actually pretty cool. So you've got a couple of different options. You can see these can be turned around either way. So you would screw a fan into the hard plastic, so that would be a hard mount. And then these other pieces are for soft mounting. So you use these plastic guys right here. You put a washer on it first. Okay, so that goes against your case so that there's rubber isolation between the hard plastic and your case. And then the fan goes where it goes and you just put this in here. And then the spacing will be just right to make it so there's not that much room for the metal. And you'll have a nice soft vibration free mount. Nice high quality rubber as well. So it's got some flex to it, which is where the anti-vibration properties come from. But it's also not just like cheesy and going to break as soon as you use it a couple of times, which we have run into in the past with anti-vibration mounts for fans. So I think that pretty much covers it other than just plugging it in, because I'm just sort of curious now. Is it morbid curiosity? For me, fans come down to how much motor noise is there, because... Wow. You can barely hear... You can actually barely hear the motor at all until you get your ear almost right next to it. Very nice. Hard to subjectively judge sort of the airflow that it's pushing, but they're quite well regarded. You can see just little things like the overall quality of the construction. Even though there's not much to the outside rectangular frame, it still doesn't flex very much at all, which is outstanding. Like you look at cheaper fans, like for example... Actually, these Logis's ones are kind of outstanding in terms of flex, but... Ah, yes. So the OEM Corsair ones, the old ones. You can just kind of... Actually, those ones are not that bad either. Let's see if I can find one. You know, I don't really hold on to the really bad stuff, but you just have to believe me, Nantech fans are decent. Yep, you guys will just have to trust me on this one. Oh, no, this one. There, even with this bracket on it. See that flex? That's a cheap fan. So there you go. That pretty much wraps it up. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Silent Wings 2 fan from Be Quiet. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips from our unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And also, the sub-leaving on it is excellent and it has a black connector, and it will generally look awesome in your high-performance machine.