 Welcome to my unboxing of Corsair's SP or Static Pressure series of fans. You can see I've got a couple of dual packs here of the high performance edition and the quiet edition. Now the only difference between a high performance edition fan and a quiet edition fan is the stock RPM at which it spins at 12 volts. So here, let's go ahead and now I talked a lot about this in the Flow series fans or the AF series fans unboxing but it remains relevant here so I will continue to talk about it. Where has Corsair innovated when it comes to fans? Because it's a very crowded market, everyone and their dog has a line of fans and what they think is interesting about it. So Corsair has done a number of things. First of all, they have gone the route of some of their competitors who have different fans that are optimized for different things. So Noctua for example has their pressure optimized P series fans as well as their directed airflow and pressure optimized F series fans. Okay, so Corsair has SP and then they also have AF series. There we go. You can see they use very, very different designs. So that's one of the ways to innovate is you create fans that are properly optimized for the different usage scenarios you think your users will encounter. This one for pressure. They have also added something that I think is really cool. So you just use a screwdriver to pop the ring off or you can do it with your hands if you want and you can replace it with red or white. Whatever color you prefer, whatever color you think will accent your rig the best. I mean I hope Corsair comes out with even more colors in the future because that just looks like the bee's knees in my personal humble opinion. Okay, what else can you do? You can improve aesthetics, right? All black cables, all black connectors, Corsair is already very good at that. Very clean looking hub designs. I mean I hate ugly fans. I hate good looking fans that then have like a big gaudy sticker on the back of them. It drives me crazy. You can do that. You can reduce vibration. So they've used a very unique design here where they've got rubber here, rubber here, so rubber on both of the outsides, rubber filling in the entire inside of what would normally be an open corner fan. But you can still access the insides in case you need to run a bolt through it or whatever else the case may be. So I think that's really cool because they've reduced vibration from every possible angle on their new series, both series of fans. I think double packs are actually more cool than people give them credit for because you can save a couple bucks just by getting a double pack and quite honestly who needs one fan in the first place. So let's talk about the applications. What are the pressure fans for? If you have something like a case with a very restrictive front panel, so if you don't have a mesh front panel like for something like a Corsair 300R where it's a very open front panel, if you have something that's more like a 650D, you might want to opt with a pressure series fan. If you have something like a Corsair H100, see how restrictive that is, how little actual space there is for the fan to push air through? Well, if you were to use an airflow series fan, it would be, and I mean this is okay, this is not very technical, this is very surface, okay guys? It would be very leaky, so to speak. So it would try to push the air through, try to use these very scoopy, very flat propeller-like blades to push the air through it, but it would leak. It would spit air back up through the fan which reduces the efficiency and reduces how much airflow you actually get through your radiator. And fan noise basically goes up in a linear fashion with RPM. The faster you spin your fan, the louder it is. So if you have to waste cycles spinning faster in order to push the air through, you're just going to have a noisier experience. Whereas with their pressure series fans, you can see they have a much broader and lower count of the propeller blades. So what that means is that when these spin, they're more of a constant downward pressure as opposed to moving through as much air if they were in a completely open environment like this. So that is why these are optimized for high pressure applications such as this where there's a lot of restriction or resistance to the flow of air. So there you go. That is why there are two different series of fans. That is what Corsair has done to innovate and I think that pretty much covers it. So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at Corsair's static pressure SP series of fans. And don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And don't forget, every fan includes three different rings. So you have white, blue, and red. You configure your fan the way you want to. Corsair's done a lot of engineering, a lot of testing to make these fans what they believe are going to be pretty much the best option out there. So once we have some more time to spend with our data, hopefully we'll be able to back up that conclusion. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Sorry guys, I forgot to show the accessories that are included. Four black screws. I love those nice little finishing touches from Corsair. Again, all black wires, black sleeving, black connectors, nice little finishing touches. They also have a little thing about not returning the product to the store and contacting Corsair, as well as of course their solutions guide showcasing their different products because at this point they have so many products that you could almost build an entire PC with nothing but like Corsair, Intel, and then I suppose you'd need like a motherboard and a graphics card or something.