First off let me start by
saying I have been a huge fan of Noctua products since they sent me my
first cooler to test so many years ago. In the time gone by, Noctua was
one of the only companies driven to the perfection to search for a noise
free user environment while still delivering some of the best cooling
results on the market. To be bluntly obvious, there is only so long a
company can utilize one basic concept before technology passes it by and
they are no longer competitive. Well, Noctua thought ahead and really
came up with a wonderful fan that is one of the most thought-out designs
on the market today.
I know, the first thing you are going to say is that
Noctua fans are ugly and the colors don't match the theme in your
chassis. To that I say simply this, get over it already. These colors
have made Noctua fans famous over the years and can be discerned in a
crowd at long distances. The technology involved in designing a fan like
this newest submission far outweighs the concern for color. Then again I
am a function over form sort of guy and the only one to see my rigs is
me, unless I choose to host images of it.
That being said I would give
up a noisy working environment for some super performing fans that may
not match and let's be honest, you can only see a couple through the
window of your chassis and if you don't have a window in your chassis,
then there isn't anything to complain about now, is there?
This is a first for us at
TweakTown as we don't typically do a fan only review for anyone, but we
made an exception when we saw what Noctua offers in the NF-F12 PWM
Focused Flow fans they just brought to the market. I tried a bunch of
testing ideas, some worked and some just looked lame once I got images
and results in, so I decided with the approval of Noctua to go ahead and
test like as if it were a cooler review. Since I was sent three of
these fans for testing, I decided it best to strap them up to my
Swiftech Edge H20-320 HD kit and see if there are any benefits to be had
besides the incredibly low noise levels that we have all come to know
and love about Noctua products.
Let's get through the
specifications and see what these gems are going to cost you and just
what sort of performance the NF-F12 PWM fans bring to the table.
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