Well its certainly waterproof...
The Phobya Nano-G 12 silent waterproof 1500rpm multioption includes 5 & 7v adaptors and four case screws. The fan itself is powered by a 3 pin case fan header, no 4 pin molex. All cabling is braided and of good length, measuring 50cm. The fan looks sleek with it's gloss black frame and semi-transparent red fins, matching if not slightly exceeding the quality of other similarly priced fans. A draw back of the gloss black frame is that even small amounts of dust becomes highly visible after only short amount use.
Compared with the stock 120mm Antec 300 Tricool fans the Phobyas are certainly quieter. This was with the Antec 300 fans set to their top speed setting. The airflow also seems to be fractionally greater with the Phobya Nano-G 12s. On the downside to reduce fan speed the Nano-G 12s 5/7v adaptors are needed, against the Antec Tricool fan which comes with a three setting micro switch for ease of use. Although this point is irrelivant if a case mounted fan speed controller is being used.
Temperature wise the Phobya Nano-Gs reduced over all case temperature by around 2c, dropping from 35 to 33c. This was with the following system running at stock speeds with the Nano-G 12s in a push pull configuration:
Intel i7 990x - Thermalright Ultra-120A Extreme w/ Yate Loon
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 12800
MSI GTX460 Cyclone
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB x2
Creative X-FI Xtreme Music
Corsair 520w modular PSU
Sony 22x DVD±RW SATA
Antec 300 Three Hundred (Top fan disabled)
The 120mm Yate Loon on the CPU heatsink was then replaced with a Phobya Nano-G 12. Followed by 12 instances of sp2004 being run to bring the 990x up to 100% load. Temperature readings were taken at idle and then after 10 minutes of full load.
Idle: 31
Load:59
As a comparison the Yate Loon temperatures were as follows:
Idle: 33
Load: 62
As shown the Nano-G 12 has a reduction of 2-3c over the Yate Loon. However the Yate Loon is by far the quieter fan, although runs 150rpm slower than the Nano-G 12.
The current price point of the Phobya Nano-G 12 silent waterproof 1500rpm multioption brings it inline with such fans as the Sharkoon Silent Eagle, Akasa Apache, Scythe Kaze Jyuni. Meaning it has stiff competition from already well known fans. On the plus side the waterproof feature does count in the Nano-G 12s favour by allowing quick and easy cleaning.
And if a drink is spilled into the PC at least the fans will survive...
