Today I'll be unboxing a unique new product. This is the Silverstone Air
Penetrator. And I said that with a straight face. It
is a breakthrough computer fan with air channeling technology. It has low power
consumption. But what fan doesn't? It has industryleading air channeling. Oh,
I didn't know it is an industryleading air channeling fan. It has wide fan
blades for reducing air resistance. It is a standard 120 mm frame for maximum
compatibility with CPU coolers. It has an integrated air channeling grill,
double as fan guard to reduce overall size. The fluid dynamic bearing is for
high reliability. So, there's a little bit of an inconsistency to the um way
that these bullet points are laid out, but I'm not going to hold it against them too much. It is a transparent blue
UV fan with a black blade. And we're just going to open it up and talk about
it more once it is open. And I will have
to cut the sticker because I didn't realize that the fan is actually sealed.
So, I have a knife. Knives are good
except when they cut you and not the box. That very rarely happens with me
though, so I don't worry about it too much. Okay, so inside for accessories,
we have rubber mounts to go with the air
penetration. Then we have uh four fan screws.
So, those are metal mounts. Then we have a Molex to Ooh, this is a good feature.
I love these. So this is a four pin Molex to either 12vt, 7V or 5vt power.
So you can use that to as as a fan control. Well, not use it as a fan
controller. This is a fan controller. So instead of if you plug it into your um
instead of plugging it into your motherboard header where some motherboards will also allow you to
control the fan speed from, you can just plug it into here. So okay, I want it to
run full speed. So just plug it in like that and then plug it directly into the
power supply. We'll have a closer look at the fan in just no, we'll have a
closer look at the fan now. So, here are the wide UV blue blades and you can see
that they are quite wide compared to most fans. Okay, you
know what? Let's get down to the feature that actually matters. This what this
does is it makes it so that the air comes out like this. And you know what?
Silverstone actually has a pretty cool demo of this on their site. So, I'm just
going to go ahead and sort of navigate there while you uh take in the coolness
of this fan that the cameraman is pointing the camera at. And uh here, you
should show them this diagram, too, cuz that's the most interesting part. So,
while it may seem counterintuitive that I'm going to show you in my YouTube
video, someone else's YouTube video, uh I'll do that in a moment. So, why don't
we plug it in and have a look at what the noise is like. So, that means that
I'll actually stop talking for a minute, which might be nice for the cameraman.
So, we're plugging it in at 12 volts here, so the camera can sort of
Yeah. You know what? It's going to be impossible to hear anything. It's really
quiet, actually. I'm impressed.
It's very quiet. Okay.
It's hard to tell if I'm really noticing the directed air flow, but the whole
idea behind this fan is that it's great for use as an intake fan because the air
comes out in like a wind sort of tunnled channeled effect. So, it all comes out
sort of here. Whereas with a normal fan, it just kind of blows all over the
place. And so, that's what these uh that's what these this grill is for. So,
um, why don't we plug it in at 7 volts just to sort of, you know,
make a point here that it's also quiet at 7 volts.
Wow. I'm a bit of a silence freak, but uh, I'm actually really impressed by
this. It's not producing very much noise
at all at 7 volts, and it's moving a fairly decent amount of air. That's
pretty good. Okay, that video is finally loaded, so we can stop killing time. Um,
so here they're showing the I think this is the other fan. This is
some random fan. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Okay. So that's how air flow normally works
from a fan. And then they show the air penetrator here. So see how it blows it
straight out instead of all over the place. There you go. That was the whole
point. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Silverstone AP 121 air
penetrator 120 mm computer case cooling
fan.