- Review -

20.03.2013 AlienBabelTech.com

There is really no comparison between Noctua fans and many other fans available, and the old adage, “you get what you pay for” also comes to mind. If you have a Core i7 or i5 that you really want to push to its maximum overclock, Noctua may be for you. And if you want a near-silent overclock, then you need look no further than Noctua fans as they move a lot of air for their speed and lack of noise. Noctua fans comes highly recommended by this reviewer! Like the NF-P14 FLX fan that we liked when we reviewed it in 2009, Noctua’s new 140x150mm NF-A15 PWN fan is nearly unique in that it fits where only formerly 120mm fans could fit previously. For your money, you get a super fan that will fit into almost any home theater PC while delighting the audiophile and movie fans with its ability to use either of its adapters to slow the rpm into inaudibility while still maintaining good air flow. [...] All three of these fans are amazingly quiet and efficient and are improvements over the older Noctua fans, to say nothing of being great upgrades over the stock cooling in most cases and in most CPU coolers and radiators. Noctua continues to lead with superbly quiet HTPC solutions and they deserve our ABT Innovation Award!

"When it comes to cooling your overclocked hot Core i7 or Core i5 efficiently and especially quietly, Noctua is the company to turn to. If you have a high performance PC, you can also use it for HTPC without compromising performance, or as in our case, keeping our high CPU overclock. We used an extreme series of tests to overclock our HTPC CPU to 4.5GHz using only 3 Noctua fans and it worked out amazingly well and in near silence." (Mark Poppin, AlienBabelTech.com)