1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:05,920 Today I'll be unboxing a unique new product. This is the Silverstone Air 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,760 Penetrator. And I said that with a straight face. It 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:14,320 is a breakthrough computer fan with air channeling technology. It has low power 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:17,600 consumption. But what fan doesn't? It has industryleading air channeling. Oh, 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:21,359 I didn't know it is an industryleading air channeling fan. It has wide fan 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:26,320 blades for reducing air resistance. It is a standard 120 mm frame for maximum 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:30,560 compatibility with CPU coolers. It has an integrated air channeling grill, 8 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:34,880 double as fan guard to reduce overall size. The fluid dynamic bearing is for 9 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:39,280 high reliability. So, there's a little bit of an inconsistency to the um way 10 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:44,800 that these bullet points are laid out, but I'm not going to hold it against them too much. It is a transparent blue 11 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:50,719 UV fan with a black blade. And we're just going to open it up and talk about 12 00:00:46,879 --> 00:00:52,719 it more once it is open. And I will have 13 00:00:50,719 --> 00:00:58,800 to cut the sticker because I didn't realize that the fan is actually sealed. 14 00:00:55,120 --> 00:01:00,879 So, I have a knife. Knives are good 15 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:05,600 except when they cut you and not the box. That very rarely happens with me 16 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:10,960 though, so I don't worry about it too much. Okay, so inside for accessories, 17 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,720 we have rubber mounts to go with the air 18 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:19,040 penetration. Then we have uh four fan screws. 19 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:23,360 So, those are metal mounts. Then we have a Molex to Ooh, this is a good feature. 20 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:30,000 I love these. So this is a four pin Molex to either 12vt, 7V or 5vt power. 21 00:01:27,759 --> 00:01:34,479 So you can use that to as as a fan control. Well, not use it as a fan 22 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:38,079 controller. This is a fan controller. So instead of if you plug it into your um 23 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:43,360 instead of plugging it into your motherboard header where some motherboards will also allow you to 24 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:47,119 control the fan speed from, you can just plug it into here. So okay, I want it to 25 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:50,159 run full speed. So just plug it in like that and then plug it directly into the 26 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:54,640 power supply. We'll have a closer look at the fan in just no, we'll have a 27 00:01:52,320 --> 00:02:00,640 closer look at the fan now. So, here are the wide UV blue blades and you can see 28 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:04,479 that they are quite wide compared to most fans. Okay, you 29 00:02:03,119 --> 00:02:09,599 know what? Let's get down to the feature that actually matters. This what this 30 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:12,480 does is it makes it so that the air comes out like this. And you know what? 31 00:02:10,959 --> 00:02:15,920 Silverstone actually has a pretty cool demo of this on their site. So, I'm just 32 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:21,360 going to go ahead and sort of navigate there while you uh take in the coolness 33 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:25,680 of this fan that the cameraman is pointing the camera at. And uh here, you 34 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:30,000 should show them this diagram, too, cuz that's the most interesting part. So, 35 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:35,440 while it may seem counterintuitive that I'm going to show you in my YouTube 36 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:38,000 video, someone else's YouTube video, uh I'll do that in a moment. So, why don't 37 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:42,080 we plug it in and have a look at what the noise is like. So, that means that 38 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:46,959 I'll actually stop talking for a minute, which might be nice for the cameraman. 39 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:52,239 So, we're plugging it in at 12 volts here, so the camera can sort of 40 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:58,000 Yeah. You know what? It's going to be impossible to hear anything. It's really 41 00:02:54,959 --> 00:03:01,280 quiet, actually. I'm impressed. 42 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:03,280 It's very quiet. Okay. 43 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:07,440 It's hard to tell if I'm really noticing the directed air flow, but the whole 44 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:12,640 idea behind this fan is that it's great for use as an intake fan because the air 45 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:16,319 comes out in like a wind sort of tunnled channeled effect. So, it all comes out 46 00:03:14,239 --> 00:03:20,400 sort of here. Whereas with a normal fan, it just kind of blows all over the 47 00:03:18,239 --> 00:03:26,319 place. And so, that's what these uh that's what these this grill is for. So, 48 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:32,799 um, why don't we plug it in at 7 volts just to sort of, you know, 49 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:38,560 make a point here that it's also quiet at 7 volts. 50 00:03:35,599 --> 00:03:44,159 Wow. I'm a bit of a silence freak, but uh, I'm actually really impressed by 51 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:46,319 this. It's not producing very much noise 52 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:49,599 at all at 7 volts, and it's moving a fairly decent amount of air. That's 53 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:55,599 pretty good. Okay, that video is finally loaded, so we can stop killing time. Um, 54 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:59,920 so here they're showing the I think this is the other fan. This is 55 00:03:57,439 --> 00:04:03,680 some random fan. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Okay. So that's how air flow normally works 56 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:08,080 from a fan. And then they show the air penetrator here. So see how it blows it 57 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:11,280 straight out instead of all over the place. There you go. That was the whole 58 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:19,120 point. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Silverstone AP 121 air 59 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:21,759 penetrator 120 mm computer case cooling 60 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,759 fan.