my friends Noctua has done it they have
finally given us what we asked for
higher RPM and therefore higher performance fans with the same
outstanding KN to a technology warranty and build quality and in Black instead
of poop brown and vomit
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released those fans lonus really likes in a different
color you wouldn't be getting a full video about it you'd be getting a tweet
or something no these black fans are part of noa's allnew industrial PPC or
protected performance cooling lineup they feature similar designs to my
favorite two models from their traditional retail lineup but they have
some upgrades that allow them to deliver even better performance and Longevity so
first up the construction material has been upgraded from polybutylene talate
to some kind of fiberglass reinforced polyamide this allows the structural
components of the fan anyway to survive temperatures of up to 140° C as if any
other part of a PC would still be working at that point so maybe not that
interesting but what is interesting about it is that Noctua sees the
application for for these fans in other Industries including Automotive
Aeronautics and Home Appliances as well so who knows maybe that will come in
handy next we get a supertastic
three-phase motor design that unlike traditional fan motors provides nearly
continuous power to the blade assembly rather than torquing it hard than
letting it rely on its own momentum to get another push this improves
smoothness and reduces vibration and power consumption at the same time next
we get ip52 dust and water resistance or IP67
dust and waterproofness depending on which skew
you go for with the badass IP67 ones
being obviously more expensive this makes the new PPC fans ideal for use and
what noctu is describing as challenging
conditions although I mean you know yeah I guess being rained on is a condition
that I'd consider to be challenging for a normal fan or maybe even more than
challenging like ridiculous the last change oh yeah more on that last bit
later the last change is the only one that I don't much care for Noctua has
increased the running speeds from 1500 RPM to 2,000 or even 3,000 RPM depending
on the skew compared to the standard operating speed of, 1500 RPM for the
regular retail models this means that with regular lowspeed adapters which by
the way are not included in the box but you can buy them your own multi packs of
the along with Y cables extensions and anti- vibration mounts and all that
stuff um that means that it's harder to reach a speed that I find comfortable
with just one of those normal adapters thank goodness for pwm control though I
was able to get these down to a level that I found satisfying so thumbs up for
that and it does all of this while maintaining the 150,000 hour meantime
between failure and six-year warranty of the regular fans now I mentioned that
these were my favorite fan models but I didn't really mention why much fuss gets
made about airflow versus pressure optimized fan designs and putting the
right fans in the right places but my problem with that is that I might change
my configuration at some point so I'd like to have whatever is most versatile
a pressure optimized design like the NF F12 will perform quite well in an open
air situation and rock the house in a
restrictive situation like if it's up against a heat sink radiator or
restrictive fan Grill that's why I prefer pressure optimized fans and I
prefer noct toas over other ones because they just plain old kick ass I don't
even understand most of the technology behind them but they're wellb built
perform like nobody's business undervolt gracefully or at least lower their speed
gracefully and aside from looking like rubbish the normal ones anyway are the
best fans on the market I guess I should mention why I prefer the A14 it's cuz it
has a square frame so it's much better for radiator mounting it a little bit
again more versatile and easier to find spots for it but that's why these are so
exciting subjectively using them they are obviously louder meant for
industrial environments but for all the other benefits I will deal with the
slight inconvenience of needing to rejigger my fan speed controller to
reach my target sub 1000 RPM running speeds and frankly most people aren't
the kinds of quiet freaks that I am so y'all are likely to even be bothered by
this and may even consider it to be a big advantage that they are able to run
at higher RPMs now I said I'd elaborate on the water and dust resistance so here
we go I grabbed one of the IP67 2000 RPM
models that knocked to a ship me and decided it was time for it to go for a
swim as a control I grabbed an old NFP
12 and put it in the same bucket I left my camera running to see how long each
of the fans would survive underwater now one thing that was a
little bit confusing at first was the way that the older fan simply spun
slower due to the water resistance while the industrial PPC fan would start and
stop to protect itself from damage this
submerged scenario is unlikely to ever actually occur and if it did the rest of
whatever the fans attached to would pretty much be dead anyway but the good
news is that it brought our attention to a cool feature that'll be great in the
real world as well like if a wire gets caught in a fan or something like that
your fan is more likely to protect itself very cool anyway back to the
water long story short the water resistant fan lived the other one didn't
our hypothesis that Noctua doesn't just randomly make crap up when they're doing
their marketing materials has been confirmed once again now you may have
noticed that I've been calling this fan black all this time but it actually
still has brown accents and normally this is the point where I'd be like yeah
whatever Brown fan Master race anyway but actually that's not going to happen
because I saved one more surprise for you guys at the end here even the little
brown accent anti vibration mounts can
be taken off so you're left with a completely clean looking black fan
Ballin just be ready to pay through the nose for these bad boys because they are
extremely expensive as usual speaking of expensive
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