Thermaltake introduced its first-ever swappable fan blade design for its new Swafan RGB Radiator Fan (opens in new tab), permitting the person to vary the airflow course by merely coming out the usual fan and swapping it with a reverse one. It is neat however fairly pointless when you consider the better, cheaper methods to reverse a PC fan’s airflow.
The Swafan RGB Radiator Followers are a trio of PWM-controlled followers with speeds as much as 2000 RPM. The Swafan comes with two units of swappable fan blades: customary and reversed. It is available in 12 cm and 14 cm sizes. All sides of the fan has an RGB ring that’s managed by Thermaltake’s NeonMaker software program.
The purpose of a swappable fan blade is to reverse the airflow on the fly with out having to unscrew the whole fan. In keeping with the video above, Thermal Mike explains it is advisable be sure to lube the brand new fan, or you’ll hear all 2000 RPMs, which would not be nice.
I believe with the ability to simply come out a fan to wipe off built-up mud and PC gunk appears handy, simply not $130 handy. I am going to admit, I am unable to consider a time when my followers have been so funky I wanted to clean them within the kitchen sink.
Reverse airflow means you are sucking in cool air into your PC whereas one other set of followers blows out all the nice and cozy air, which is not too wild of an idea. Nevertheless, as my {hardware} colleagues loudly identified in our morning Slack, there’s one other strategy to get your fan blades to push air the opposite manner. You flip the whole fan over if you set up it. Wild, proper?
As fascinating as it’s to have the ability to swap a fan anytime you need, the true query is, who’s randomly opening their PC and deciding to reverse its airflow on a whim this typically? Most PC builders select forward of time what their thermal state of affairs will seem like. And from our expertise (opens in new tab), the cooling efficiency on reverse airflow vs. common airflow is nominal, at finest.
The Swafan 12/14 RGB Radiator Fan (opens in new tab) (3-pack) sells for $120 and $129.99, respectively, however you may’t put a worth on sizzling swapping motion, are you able to?
