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malistix1985 on 08 August 2017

I have a Noctua fan on my ryzen which is also overclocked (3.9ghz), very cool and quiet!




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vivster on 08 August 2017
JEMC said:
vivster said:

I kinda expect my expensive mainboard to be able to handle 1-2kg that's safely secured and distributes its weight over 4 screws.

I'm not afraid of water in my PC but it seems such a hassle for practically no gain over a big tower cooler.

For most of us, the weight of the cooler is not a problem. But for those that, for several reasons, move their PC often, it can be a cause of concern.

I haven't tried watercooling yet. I wanted to give it a go with my GPU as I'm more than fine with the Noctua for the CPU, both in temps and noise, but no one makes full blocks for the card I got, so I'll have to wait for my next one to try it :-/.

I'm still waiting for Noctua GPU tower coolers



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 08 August 2017

Yea but dem color schemes tho



                  

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caffeinade on 08 August 2017
Captain_Yuri said:
Yea but dem color schemes tho

Get the industrial fans then, they are black.
Noctua also sells coloured rubber anti-vibration mounts to replace the brown ones that they ship with.

Problem solved.



Chazore on 08 August 2017

I'm actually looking into grabbing some black Noctua fans sometime this week, though I'm more after static pressure ones.



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JEMC on 08 August 2017
vivster said:
JEMC said:

For most of us, the weight of the cooler is not a problem. But for those that, for several reasons, move their PC often, it can be a cause of concern.

I haven't tried watercooling yet. I wanted to give it a go with my GPU as I'm more than fine with the Noctua for the CPU, both in temps and noise, but no one makes full blocks for the card I got, so I'll have to wait for my next one to try it :-/.

I'm still waiting for Noctua GPU tower coolers

I remember they said there were looking at the third party GPU coolers market, but that was when AMD launched the HD 5000 series. I guess they didn't like what they saw.



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 08 August 2017
caffeinade said:
Captain_Yuri said:
Yea but dem color schemes tho

Get the industrial fans then, they are black.
Noctua also sells coloured rubber anti-vibration mounts to replace the brown ones that they ship with.

Problem solved.

Yea but to truly be pcmr worthy, they need to have rgb leds



                  

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finalrpgfantasy on 08 August 2017
Pemalite said:
I have almost $400 worth of Noctua fans in my main rig alone.

...You could say I am a fan.

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Anyway, holy hell!!!!!!!!!!  Nearly $400 on fans?  What kind of rig do you have?



JEMC on 08 August 2017
Captain_Yuri said:
caffeinade said:

Get the industrial fans then, they are black.
Noctua also sells coloured rubber anti-vibration mounts to replace the brown ones that they ship with.

Problem solved.

Yea but to truly be pcmr worthy, they need to have rgb leds



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potato_hamster on 08 August 2017

I'm going to be swapping out my Cooler Master 212 Evo for an AIO, and probably upgrading my EVGA 1070 FTW to have its own AIO with the upgrade kit in the next year or so. To be fair, this is mostly for aesthetic reasons, since the 212 is fucking ugly. But then again, since I'm not exactly rocking a cutting edge PC, and my graphics card only has to support a couple of 1080p monitors, so I'm not really concerned about the performance either. I

I picked up some NZXT fans to go with my case (4 total) to keep the build consistent, and don't really see a reason to "upgrade" to Noctua. You're only talking about 1-2 degrees of performance when you're going above bargain level fans, and unless you're at risk of thermal throttling, you're not going to see any meaningful gains of performance.