{"video_id":"evgznPX7Km8","title":"Silverstone AP-123 Fan Unboxing & Overview","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":276,"segments":[{"start_s":0.24,"end_s":7.359,"text":"you know who doesn't get enough credit for their fans Silverstone this is the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.92,"end_s":12.36,"text":"ap23 I mean honestly these guys probably spend more money and More Energy","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.92,"end_s":18.359,"text":"Engineering their fans than almost anyone else out there I mean everyone in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.559,"end_s":20.4,"text":"their dog manufacturers a fan where","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.359,"end_s":26.519,"text":"basically they're taking some OEM fan made by yat loon or whoever else and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.88,"end_s":31.56,"text":"they're slapping a label on it they're having it made to a spec with 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that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":54.44,"end_s":61.64,"text":"the old one did the key difference between this one and the old Air penetrator I actually use AP1 121s the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":59.64,"end_s":66.08,"text":"original air penetrators on my radiator in my system because they undervolt","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":63.239,"end_s":70.6,"text":"extremely well they're very quiet and the focused air flow allows them to draw","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":68.479,"end_s":73.96,"text":"air through the radiator and then push it out the back of my case because","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":72.04,"end_s":78.08,"text":"there's a bit of a dead zone between the outer the the grill on the other side","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":76.04,"end_s":82.92,"text":"and the other side of the fan so it's cool because it makes the air flow not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":81.2,"end_s":87.6,"text":"just 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to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"you know who doesn't get enough credit for their fans Silverstone this is the ap23 I mean honestly these guys probably spend more money and More Energy Engineering their fans than almost anyone else out there I mean everyone in their dog manufacturers a fan where basically they're taking some OEM fan made by yat loon or whoever else and they're slapping a label on it they're having it made to a spec with some LEDs or whatever else um Silverstone actually Engineers fans the ap- 1223 is an evolutionary step forward in their air penetrator series although it seems to be not called a penetrator anywhere but I'm assuming the AP is because it's sort of similar in terms of the technology um and the original air penetrator was designed for focused airflow and you can see that this one has the same airflow Focus channels on the back of it that the old one did the key difference between this one and the old Air penetrator I actually use AP1 121s the original air penetrators on my radiator in my system because they undervolt extremely well they're very quiet and the focused air flow allows them to draw air through the radiator and then push it out the back of my case because there's a bit of a dead zone between the outer the the grill on the other side and the other side of the fan so it's cool because it makes the air flow not just through my radiator more effective but also the air flow through my case more effective so with the ap13 what Silverstone has done so for okay first of all so General specs blue UV blades black frame got it that's a nice UV Blue too on the old AP1 121s it was kind of a translucent one this should look quite striking uh 5vt DC start voltage outstanding if you're using DC control for your fans it's nice that they'll start at such a low voltage that means you can even instead of using um undervolting adapters or whatever else you can make your own adapters just by running the fan off the 7 and 12vt instead of a 12 and ground so you have a 5V difference uh not that I necessarily recommend making your own electric adapters but whatever uh up to 1500 RPM although it'll go significantly lower than that if you undervolt It lifetime of 50,000 hours excuse me sorry fairly solid static pressure rating and whatever so taking air channeling fan to another level I wish they'd had someone proofread this industry leading air channeling fan and the AP certainly was when it launched so I'm I'm sure they're sort of keeping this going integrated air channeling Grill doubles as a f Ard to reduce the overall size which is nice and let's finally get into what makes this fan super special check this out see this right here what Silverstone discovered is that in order to reduce the noise you want to reduce the uh the the the patterned you want to you want to break up the uh in order to reduce sort of humming noises and any kind of vibration you want to break things up a little bit you want to you want things to be different so they have three different sizes of fan blades on this fan I'm going to let you guys look for it okay broad three of those medium three of those and small this makes the fan according to Silverstone so you can see they're also completely different shapes so this looks more like the blade on the original AP this looks more like a standard fan blade but with a bit of a um a bit of a curvature up at the end here and this one is quite curved at the end so this is supposed to make the fan better optimized for silence and performance while just sort of generally also being awesome and directing air flow through your case I mean when it comes to directed air flow it's useful for a number of things so I would use directed airflow fans wherever you need to not only draw air through something but also towards something so for example a great place to use it would be if you have a case where I'm going to stand this way if you have a case where the front intake is here and then you've got your hard drive cages and then you've got more fan mounts like something like a Corsair C70 I would mount something like this on the other side of those cages because now I have a pressure optimized fan to draw air through the restrictive cages then I have channeled air flow going directly to my graphics cards that's where the utili that's where the application of a fan like this is they are including a nice high quality sleeving so even though the wires themselves are colored you can't actually see the colors through the sleeving at all which is great there we go and they include both screws and noise isolating vibration isolating rubber grommets to mount the fan to your case something that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at at the ap23 from Silverstone don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}