Gadgetory

you know who doesn't get enough credit for their fans silverstone this is the AP 123 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 yeat loon or whoever else and they're slapping a label on it they're having it made to us back with some LEDs or whatever else Silverstone actually engineers fans the AP 123 is an evolutionary step forward in their air penetrator series although it seems to be not called air penetrator anywhere but I'm assuming the AAP is because it's sort of similar in terms of the technology and the original air penetrator was designed for focused air flow and you can see that this one has the same air flow focused 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 a p1 21s the original air penetrators on my radiator in my system because the undervolt extremely well they're very quiet and the focused airflow 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 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 airflow through my case more effective so with the AP 123 what Silverstone has done so for a first of all so general specs blue UV blades black frame got it that's a nice UV blue too on the old AP 120 ones it's kind of a translucent one this should look quite striking ah five volt 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 under bolting adapters or whatever else you can make your own adapters just by running the fan off the seven and 12 volt instead of a 12 in ground so you have a 5 volt difference not that I necessarily recommend making your own electric adapters but whatever up to 1500 RPM although it'll go significantly lower than that if you under volt 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 AAP certainly was when it launched so I'm sure they're sort of keeping this going integrated air channeling grill doubles as a fan guard 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 the patterned nist you wanna you want to break up the 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 gonna let you guys look for it okay Brod three of those medium three of those it's 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 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 airflow through your case I mean when it comes to directed airflow it's useful for a number of things so I would use directed airflow fans wherever you need to not only dryer 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 gonna stand this way if you have a case where the front intake is here and then you've got your harddrive cages and then you've got more fan mounts like something like a Corsair C 70 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 airflow going directly to my graphics cards that's where the utilize 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 this leaving at all which is great there we go and they include both screws and noise isolating vibration isolating rubber drum to melt the fancy piece so that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out my own box on your first look at the AAP 123 from Silverstone don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos