Tuesday, May 18th 2021
Noctua Confirms That its Passive Cooler is "Coming Very Soon"
Noctua first teased their passive CPU cooler at Computex 2019 which weighed 1.5 kg and could handle processors with a TDP of 120 W passively and 180 W with quiet fans. Noctua had been planning to release a commercial version of the cooler in Q1 2021 but that date was pushed to Q2 2021 when Noctua updated its product roadmap in early 2021. Noctua has recently confirmed that this latest launch date is on schedule with an announcement that the cooler is "coming very soon" in response to a user on Twitter. The prototype featured mounting for AM4 and LGA 115x sockets with it keeping the Intel i9-9900K cool under load so we expect it will handle any consumer CPU.
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@Noctua_at
33 Comments on Noctua Confirms That its Passive Cooler is "Coming Very Soon"
Mad respect.
Your case is as noisy as your noisiest fan. Use motherboard fan control to ensure that no fan ever exceeds 600RPM and you'll struggle to hear it over the sound of your own breathing, or blood flowing through veins near your eardrums.
Certainly for any given budget you are better off using a vastly more compatible and compact cooler, and investing in a few high quality, low-noise fans that can run as low as 400RPM. I have an HTPC with a 3600XT, 2x NVME drives, B550 chipset and a 2060S with fan-stop. Unless the GPU is being used, the CPU fan runs at 500-600 rpm and the dust-filtered case fans run at 400. The only thing I can't really do with that thermal setup is use PBO but PBO is massively inefficient and rarely means more than 200MHz even if you give it free reign to guzzle infinite power. I'm okay with only getting 4.45GHz boost out of my 4.6GHz capable CPU. It's a very small price to pay for inaudible operation.
Also I wonder what the 140mm fan will look like?
Or, add fans to fully passive solutions like this for outstanding cooling performance.
In thought he bottom and out at the top.
That way people could have glass front cases too as air intake would be the bottom of the case.
But the heat at top of the case is not a issue, CPU temps are really good it's the GPU that cannot get enough air flow, and cannot be assed to take every thing out of the case to put 3 fans on the bottom of it.
Just would like as new case already as this ones way over 13 years now hahahhaha.
For a passive cooler like this, you will need good airflow in the case as well otherwise heat will build up in the case. So you may lose some fans by going with a passive cooler, you may need extra fans on the case to pull in cooler air and quickly expel warm air in the case. In addition, I feel other downsides to this is going to be the size and weight. The size is going to cause a lot of issues trying to get to certain parts on the motherboard based on my personal experiences with huge air coolers. While nothing is mentioned about the weight, but I think it may put some stress on the motherboard, especially those with lesser PCB layers.There is still a sizable market for non RGB products. Most manufacturers out there are just following the herd. So why fight a battle with so many players in it? I rather Noctua focus on what they are good at and I am pretty sure they still make a lot of money out of it because they are a reputable brand when it comes to cooling solution.