Packaging and Accessories

I will give it to Noctua here—their fan series are differentiated by packaging design as well. We have the tan-and-brown packaging for the standard series, minimalist gray for the redux series, and a monochrome packaging with color accents for the chromax series, as well as brown sides for that unifying factor across the board. The Noctua logo greets us on the front, but the chromax brand, if you will, gets a lot of real estate, even more so than the product name itself. The full name of the fan appears to be "Noctua NF-F12 PWM chromax.black.swap", which is ridiculous if I may say so myself, but all we need to know is that there are six color options for corner pads as far as customization goes. Technical specifications greet us on the back, but otherwise, there is not much more to see. A double flap helps keep the contents inside in place.


Opening the box, we are immediately greeted by the fan kept inside a relatively large clamshell box, which also has cutouts for each of the six differently colored corner pad options. This immediately shows you what to expect, and there is more to see on the reverse side. The fan cable, for example, goes over and wraps around. There is also a neatly packaged accessory box, and it is marked as such.


As the name on the box suggests, it contains the rest of the vibration-dampening corner pads in six different color options: black, white, red, green, blue, and yellow. We get a total of four pads in each color here, as seen above. There is also a set of four self-tapping black metal screws, to be used when you have no other option. Given we will be examining this in the context of PC water cooling, you will use the screws provided with the radiator of your choice instead.