WEBVTT 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.920 Today I'll be unboxing a unique new product. This is the Silverstone Air 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:09.760 Penetrator. And I said that with a straight face. It 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:14.320 is a breakthrough computer fan with air channeling technology. It has low power 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:17.600 consumption. But what fan doesn't? It has industryleading air channeling. Oh, 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:21.359 I didn't know it is an industryleading air channeling fan. It has wide fan 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:26.320 blades for reducing air resistance. It is a standard 120 mm frame for maximum 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:30.560 compatibility with CPU coolers. It has an integrated air channeling grill, 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:34.880 double as fan guard to reduce overall size. The fluid dynamic bearing is for 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:39.280 high reliability. So, there's a little bit of an inconsistency to the um way 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 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 00:00:46.879 --> 00:00:52.719 it more once it is open. And I will have 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:58.800 to cut the sticker because I didn't realize that the fan is actually sealed. 00:00:55.120 --> 00:01:00.879 So, I have a knife. Knives are good 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:05.600 except when they cut you and not the box. That very rarely happens with me 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:10.960 though, so I don't worry about it too much. Okay, so inside for accessories, 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:12.720 we have rubber mounts to go with the air 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:19.040 penetration. Then we have uh four fan screws. 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. 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. 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 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:38.079 controller. This is a fan controller. So instead of if you plug it into your um 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:43.360 instead of plugging it into your motherboard header where some motherboards will also allow you to 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 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 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 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 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:04.479 that they are quite wide compared to most fans. Okay, you 00:02:03.119 --> 00:02:09.599 know what? Let's get down to the feature that actually matters. This what this 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? 00:02:10.959 --> 00:02:15.920 Silverstone actually has a pretty cool demo of this on their site. So, I'm just 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:21.360 going to go ahead and sort of navigate there while you uh take in the coolness 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:25.680 of this fan that the cameraman is pointing the camera at. And uh here, you 00:02:24.160 --> 00:02:30.000 should show them this diagram, too, cuz that's the most interesting part. So, 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:35.440 while it may seem counterintuitive that I'm going to show you in my YouTube 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 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 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:46.959 I'll actually stop talking for a minute, which might be nice for the cameraman. 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:52.239 So, we're plugging it in at 12 volts here, so the camera can sort of 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:58.000 Yeah. You know what? It's going to be impossible to hear anything. It's really 00:02:54.959 --> 00:03:01.280 quiet, actually. I'm impressed. 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:03.280 It's very quiet. Okay. 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 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 00:03:09.920 --> 00:03:16.319 comes out in like a wind sort of tunnled channeled effect. So, it all comes out 00:03:14.239 --> 00:03:20.400 sort of here. Whereas with a normal fan, it just kind of blows all over the 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, 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, 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:38.560 make a point here that it's also quiet at 7 volts. 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 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:46.319 this. It's not producing very much noise 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 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:55.599 pretty good. Okay, that video is finally loaded, so we can stop killing time. Um, 00:03:52.720 --> 00:03:59.920 so here they're showing the I think this is the other fan. This is 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:03.680 some random fan. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Okay. So that's how air flow normally works 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 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:11.280 straight out instead of all over the place. There you go. That was the whole 00:04:09.920 --> 00:04:19.120 point. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Silverstone AP 121 air 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:21.759 penetrator 120 mm computer case cooling 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:21.759 fan.