- Review -

10.02.2012 APHNetworks.com

From our tissue paper test above, I don't think I have seen another fan quite like the NF-F12 PWM. All the "Focus Flow" stuff they mention on their website may sound like your regular marketing BS, but you really have to see it to believe it. The NF-F12 at full speed did not provide a ton of airflow per se (Compared to regular case fans anyway), but that is not the point. It delivers an incredible amount of static pressure to keep the inside part of the tissue floating in the air, while keeping its end off the ground. Not only that; airflow is straight and incredibly consistent, with nearly no observable fluttering at all.

"Simply put, incredible things happen when a company takes design and engineering very seriously, especially when the details of a $20 computer fan starts to turn out like a jet engine on paper. And the best part? All this actually works out in real life. The Noctua NF-F12 PWM and NF-P12 PWM is a brilliant demonstration of amazing aerodynamics and low acoustic noise profile at work. [...] It really pushes air like no other fan. I am not speaking this from a quantity point of view, but rather, quality. Its airflow consistency and generated static pressure is simply untouchable." (Jonathan Kwan, APHNetworks.com)