Friday, June 5th 2009
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Noctua Intros 14 cm Fan & Massive New Coolers, Coolink Joins the Party With New Look
We stopped by the Noctua and Coolink booth as well and they had a few little surprises in store for us. The austrian firm is showing off their 140 and 120 mm PWM fans for the first time. They mentioned quite some time ago, that such a unit is in planning and behold the sight of the new unit. It comes with the same mounting holes as a 120 mm unit, due to the round frame. The cooler is optimized for air pressure and the use for CPU coolers. Using this unit, Noctua will be offering the C12P as well as their newest addition - the NH-D14 with the 140 mm fan. Noctua will also be offering an upgrade kit for those who wish to replace their current 120 mm fans with the newest unit.Coolink will be dropping the blue and clear colors in favor for a bright, lime green and black variant. They are starting the new line with brand new SWIF2 fans and a new CPU cooler. This sandwich cooler will feature the new 120 mm SWIF2 fan along with direct touch heatpipes, which have been worked into the base cleanly.
32 Comments on Noctua Intros 14 cm Fan & Massive New Coolers, Coolink Joins the Party With New Look
I like that Coolink CPU cooler, especially the base.
The fans are smexy!
And I have to agree wholeheartedly with you tigger on those direct touch heatpipes.
Finaly someone to fill the gaps, on direct touch heatpipes. Wonder how much is the difference with/without gaps?
...But why did they stick a round fan in there? it would look cleaner with the traditional square fans.
The 140mm fan is ideal to pull air from the forward 120mm fan and push it back to the other 120mm fan because of its airflow, plus it may be more silent than having an 120mm fan in there.
Noctua's performance does the marketing for them
Someone jsut needs to come up with PWM splitter cables! AKASA has sort of one, but it uses molex to provide power. MB PWM plug has plenty of power for 2 and even 3 fans (at lest the ones I'd use).
Noctua 14cm fan is also nice, but it'll cost way too much. Thermaltake has had 13cm fan in 12mount space for years and Scythe has had 14cm fans is 12cm frame a while now:
500rpm
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185078
1200rpm
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185079
1900rpm
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185080
nice to see the fan mfgrs finally embracing the 21st century...
Sure if you can only have one fan and want the best airflow as quiet as possible, then it's Noctua. I just wouldn't say they are the best bang for the buck :)
MKmods: how big is that fan? looks massive (and great paintjob) :twitch: