Items tagged with Noctua
Noctua, the renowned Austrian cooling specialist, has once again raised the bar with the official release of its flagship NF-A12x25 G2 next-generation 120mm fan. The NF-A12x25 G2—let's just call it the G2 from here on out—introduces a...
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Noctua has a large fan base of enthusiasts who adore cooling solutions, and they're about to see even more products from the company. Famous for its high-quality fans and air coolers, it's now branching out into other component categories...
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If you're a connoisseur of great fans that also happen to be brown in color, Noctua has a treat coming your way. Together with Seasonic, it has unveiled the PRIME TX-1600 Noctua Edition. Noctua has been expanding beyond simple PC fans and...
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With the impending launch of Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs seemingly around the corner, we are seeing many companies confirm product compatibility with the LGA1851 socket. As such, Noctua has confirmed which coolers in their line-up will be...
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If you are a fan of Noctua—and a lot of people are—then you most likely have an affection for the brown color scheme. We'd bet that you like the top-in-class performance characteristics even more, and if so, you now have more reason to...
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If you're reading this site, Noctua almost assuredly needs no introduction to you. It's rare that Austria's premiere purveyor of puissant cooling apparatus actually launches a new product, and rarer still that it replaces its top-end...
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Are you a stinky gamer in need of cooling this summer? Perhaps instead you're a tinkerer or DIYer that simply needs some spare fans around the house. Regardless of the situation, with hot temperatures fast approaching for the northern...
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In the early going, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080 Super is proving to be a hot commodity, with many listings showing various SKUs as either sold out or on backorder just one day after releasing to retail. We'll see if things settle down...
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Sycom has created a very unique RTX 4070 Ti featuring Noctua’s high-performance NFA12x25 120mm fans. It is one of the very few (if not the only) GeForce cards to be manufactured with Noctua fans. Noctua itself has Noctua-branded RTX 30 and...
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Noctua has updated its product roadmap, revealing that several of its upcoming fans and CPU coolers have been delayed yet again. That includes the highly anticipated second-generation NH-D15 dual tower cooler. Previously, Noctua’s next-gen...
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Austrian cooling specialist Noctua has teamed up with overclocking professional Roman 'der8auer' Hartung to create the new NM-DD1 direct die kit. It is claimed that delidding your Socket AM5 CPU and using this product can result in CPU...
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Computer processors have always been complex feats of engineering, but they're even more so today with fundamental shifts in the design and packaging, such as stacking technologies (Intel's Foveros and AMD's 3D V-cache) and the use of...
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Noctua has demonstrated one of its dual fan tower form factor coolers capably soothing a 56-core Intel Xeon W9-3495X as it chews through more than 700W of power. The Austrian firm has one of the best reputations in air cooling CPUs, but...
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Noctua is continuing its collaboration with ASUS on another custom-cooled graphics card, the GeForce RTX 4080, with claims that it offers a huge reduction in noise without sacrificing temperatures. This is the third graphics card the two...
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Noctua has started 2023 by addressing the no-show of its next-gen 140mm fans. In a tweeted update on the situation, it admitted that there has been "an unexpected production level issue," which will cause a "significant delay" to the...
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but mixing table salt with your thermal paste to cool your PC processor (or any component) is a bad idea. Most people wouldn't even consider it (I hope, anyway), but lest there be any doubt, cooling...
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AMD's Ryzen 7000 series processors based on its Zen 4 architecture have a very unusual design to their integrated heatspreaders (IHS). If you're not careful, the notches on the sides of the IHS can trap thermal paste that squeezes over the...
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Noctua has shared guidelines for applying its latest NT-H2 thermal paste. Seasoned PC enthusiasts and DIYers might feel they don’t need any thermal paste application guides; however, this guide is one of the first to explain how to apply...
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It's been a long time since we saw much innovation in thermal interface materials. Back ten years ago, when OEMs tended to use pads made from camel hair, companies like Arctic Silver burst on the scene with compounds that offered...
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A few months back, we examined the performance of four liquid coolers for the Sandy Bridge-E socket LGA 2011 platform: Corsair's H80 and H100, Maingear's Epic 180, and Intel's own reference cooler. Liquid coolers are popular with high-end...
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A few months back, we examined the performance of four liquid coolers for the Sandy Bridge-E socket LGA 2011 platform: Corsair's H80 and H100, Maingear's Epic 180, and Intel's own reference cooler. Liquid coolers are popular with high-end OEMs and some enthusiasts, but they aren't cheap -- and...
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Noctua is a high-end Austrian company with a decided focus on the upper-end of air cooling—the company's cheapest heatsink/fan combo is the NH-U9B for $59, while other coolers run as high as $86. Considering that one can buy lower-end water cooled rigs for $59.99, that's definitely...
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