Box, Contents & Bundle
The box has a photo of the fan on its face and is sturdy enough to provide reasonable protection for the product.
Corsair says the blade shape has an optimized angle of attack to ensure maximum airflow efficiency. This is my first time encountering this aviation term to describe a cooling fan’s performance. Overall, the build quality is high, as expected from such an expensive product.
On the fan’s airflow side, the stator vanes are angled accordingly to focus the exhaust airflow cone. This allows for increased static pressure, which leads to better performance in radiators with dense fins. I will check this on the Longwin test apparatus.
Corsair provides a scheme for the magnetic levitation bearing named the magnetic dome.
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Proprietary connections with need of a special SW (this fan), proprietary fan connections (BQ DR Elite) with special adjusted form factor of the fans (BQ DR Elite, CM MA824 Stealth & Assassin IV) that you cannot even buy from the manufacturer, and you have to look for it on AliExpress… And people think… what an “exclusive solution” …exclusive doesn’t mean something is “cool”, but the exclusion of other options, solutions, and replacements … and people are even willing to pay more for such an “exclusivity” … when the Apple can profit on it, why wouldn’t others try the same recipe.
…sorry for grumbling, but I can help myself 😊, …by the way great review as usual.
I hope that other manufacturer will not “applemimic” themselves and will not jump on the “great ship of exclusivity” and proprietary environment.
True, exclusive parts or connectors are not always good, especially when we are talking about fans. Corsair’s idea on the Link is good, but other brands won’t follow it, so it is only for Corsair products, which are expensive (but of good quality at least).
I think you have an error in your data for the Lian Li TL fan. CFM at 25dBA should be 44.6CFM and not the 57.2 you state and mmAQ should be 1.4 and not 1.62. I checked with the data from here: https://www.cybenetics.com/index.php?option=fans&manfID=79
HTH