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
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