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