Thursday, June 2nd 2011
Noctua Innovates New Fan Design
Noctua displayed its new innovation in fan design, called Focused Flow. One of the first fans that use this design come in 120 mm size. Its design goal is to channel (or "focus") air flow towards the center of the fan, making it ideal for use with heatsinks and radiators. The biggest design change here is the stator guide vanes, that are a set of structures permanently fixed between the frame and the center. There are a number of innovations that improve air flow and reduce noise. Notable features are micro-structures on the inner-walls of the frame that dampens the whipping noise made by rotating fan-blades, and integrated vibration dampening material at the edges. The new Focused Flow 120 fan will be used by Noctua on all its upcoming CPU coolers.
27 Comments on Noctua Innovates New Fan Design
for color i guess they wont change it easily coz its their trademark. even in 10 metres away when you see similar scheme you can say thats noctua
Is this Noctua's PWM controlled fan?
Nice rubber corners.
I may have to buy 1 and try it out.
TPU please research whether something is actually innovation before you throw it up in a title like this. :shadedshu
Just a copy and paste job ( unfortunately)
Who needs PWM when Noctua fans runs at 1200~1300RPM max?
The thing is what is consider noisy is sometime subjective, the pitch of the noise is also a big factor.As long as the fan doesn't click, PWM is useless.
It is funny that people thinks that non-PWM fans can't be controlled.
All PWM adds for the most case is extra cost for hardly any benefit.
and 1300 is loud by my standards, with voltage control kicked in it would run about 850-900 idle and if I used their adapter the fan would not start.
So I pulled them off and put on 800rpm scythe s-flex fans and they run at 575 rpm voltage controlled (idle)
Perfect.