Noctua Industrial PPC Fans!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,275 words · ~6 min read
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my friends Noctua has done it they have
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finally given us what we asked for
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higher RPM and therefore higher performance fans with the same
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outstanding KN to a technology warranty and build quality and in Black instead
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of poop brown and vomit
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tan a global leader in Tech recruiting is celebrating Geek Pride by giving
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bring away 10 amazing Tech prizes for more info visit the modus Facebook page
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or modus.com but if it were as simple as wow they
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released those fans lonus really likes in a different
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color you wouldn't be getting a full video about it you'd be getting a tweet
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or something no these black fans are part of noa's allnew industrial PPC or
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protected performance cooling lineup they feature similar designs to my
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favorite two models from their traditional retail lineup but they have
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some upgrades that allow them to deliver even better performance and Longevity so
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first up the construction material has been upgraded from polybutylene talate
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to some kind of fiberglass reinforced polyamide this allows the structural
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components of the fan anyway to survive temperatures of up to 140° C as if any
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other part of a PC would still be working at that point so maybe not that
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interesting but what is interesting about it is that Noctua sees the
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application for for these fans in other Industries including Automotive
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Aeronautics and Home Appliances as well so who knows maybe that will come in
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handy next we get a supertastic
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three-phase motor design that unlike traditional fan motors provides nearly
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continuous power to the blade assembly rather than torquing it hard than
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letting it rely on its own momentum to get another push this improves
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smoothness and reduces vibration and power consumption at the same time next
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we get ip52 dust and water resistance or IP67
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dust and waterproofness depending on which skew
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you go for with the badass IP67 ones
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being obviously more expensive this makes the new PPC fans ideal for use and
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what noctu is describing as challenging
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conditions although I mean you know yeah I guess being rained on is a condition
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that I'd consider to be challenging for a normal fan or maybe even more than
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challenging like ridiculous the last change oh yeah more on that last bit
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later the last change is the only one that I don't much care for Noctua has
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increased the running speeds from 1500 RPM to 2,000 or even 3,000 RPM depending
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on the skew compared to the standard operating speed of, 1500 RPM for the
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regular retail models this means that with regular lowspeed adapters which by
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the way are not included in the box but you can buy them your own multi packs of
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the along with Y cables extensions and anti- vibration mounts and all that
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stuff um that means that it's harder to reach a speed that I find comfortable
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with just one of those normal adapters thank goodness for pwm control though I
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was able to get these down to a level that I found satisfying so thumbs up for
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that and it does all of this while maintaining the 150,000 hour meantime
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between failure and six-year warranty of the regular fans now I mentioned that
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these were my favorite fan models but I didn't really mention why much fuss gets
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made about airflow versus pressure optimized fan designs and putting the
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right fans in the right places but my problem with that is that I might change
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my configuration at some point so I'd like to have whatever is most versatile
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a pressure optimized design like the NF F12 will perform quite well in an open
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air situation and rock the house in a
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restrictive situation like if it's up against a heat sink radiator or
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restrictive fan Grill that's why I prefer pressure optimized fans and I
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prefer noct toas over other ones because they just plain old kick ass I don't
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even understand most of the technology behind them but they're wellb built
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perform like nobody's business undervolt gracefully or at least lower their speed
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gracefully and aside from looking like rubbish the normal ones anyway are the
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best fans on the market I guess I should mention why I prefer the A14 it's cuz it
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has a square frame so it's much better for radiator mounting it a little bit
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again more versatile and easier to find spots for it but that's why these are so
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exciting subjectively using them they are obviously louder meant for
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industrial environments but for all the other benefits I will deal with the
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slight inconvenience of needing to rejigger my fan speed controller to
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reach my target sub 1000 RPM running speeds and frankly most people aren't
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the kinds of quiet freaks that I am so y'all are likely to even be bothered by
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this and may even consider it to be a big advantage that they are able to run
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at higher RPMs now I said I'd elaborate on the water and dust resistance so here
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we go I grabbed one of the IP67 2000 RPM
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models that knocked to a ship me and decided it was time for it to go for a
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swim as a control I grabbed an old NFP
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12 and put it in the same bucket I left my camera running to see how long each
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of the fans would survive underwater now one thing that was a
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little bit confusing at first was the way that the older fan simply spun
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slower due to the water resistance while the industrial PPC fan would start and
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stop to protect itself from damage this
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submerged scenario is unlikely to ever actually occur and if it did the rest of
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whatever the fans attached to would pretty much be dead anyway but the good
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news is that it brought our attention to a cool feature that'll be great in the
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real world as well like if a wire gets caught in a fan or something like that
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your fan is more likely to protect itself very cool anyway back to the
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water long story short the water resistant fan lived the other one didn't
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our hypothesis that Noctua doesn't just randomly make crap up when they're doing
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their marketing materials has been confirmed once again now you may have
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noticed that I've been calling this fan black all this time but it actually
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still has brown accents and normally this is the point where I'd be like yeah
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whatever Brown fan Master race anyway but actually that's not going to happen
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because I saved one more surprise for you guys at the end here even the little
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brown accent anti vibration mounts can
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be taken off so you're left with a completely clean looking black fan
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Ballin just be ready to pay through the nose for these bad boys because they are
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extremely expensive as usual speaking of expensive
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