Friday, April 13th 2018
Noctua Tease Their Impending Sterrox-Made, A-Series, NF-A12x25 Fan
Noctua has started teasing for the upcoming launch of their latest-generation fan design, based in more than four years of development on new materials that shed some of PBT's known weaknesses. The new fan line was first announced at Computex 2017, and at that time, the development resources poured into the project were well over more than four years and 200 test designs (we already wrote an exhaustive piece on these new fans, if you want to know more or need a refresher).
Noctua says these new fans will be twice as good as their existing ones; the company showed at Computex 2017 how a single A-series fan achieved identical temperatures to a setup which used two NF-F12 fans on the same processor, workload, and heatsink. And you thought the NF-F12 were good already, right? There's no actual release date for now, but there's a teaser image of the packaging doing the rounds already - and if that's that far along finished, then we're certainly not that far away from release. Here's hoping pricing will be competitive - but perhaps it needn't be, considering the expected performance - and the fact that Sterrox, the compound used in their manufacturing, is four times more expensive than common PBT.
Source:
Noctua's Instagram
Noctua says these new fans will be twice as good as their existing ones; the company showed at Computex 2017 how a single A-series fan achieved identical temperatures to a setup which used two NF-F12 fans on the same processor, workload, and heatsink. And you thought the NF-F12 were good already, right? There's no actual release date for now, but there's a teaser image of the packaging doing the rounds already - and if that's that far along finished, then we're certainly not that far away from release. Here's hoping pricing will be competitive - but perhaps it needn't be, considering the expected performance - and the fact that Sterrox, the compound used in their manufacturing, is four times more expensive than common PBT.
27 Comments on Noctua Tease Their Impending Sterrox-Made, A-Series, NF-A12x25 Fan
I think maybe the launch date is April 25th
By my calculations for the current NF-F12 which is around 22$ , 4x the martial cost that would be around 88$, lets slap the premium name on top of that 88+Noctua = 99.99$
At this point though I'm not having my hopes high we could get our hands on these soon. First it was demoed / announced in 2016, saying they'll be available mid 2017. Then it was the end of September, so they said hopefully mid October. November and December had passed and we arrived in 2018. So after asking for a status update, they said hopefully they can launch it in 2018Q1. Naturally the first 3 months of the year had gone past and we are in mid April closing in on May and said Sterrox fans are still nowhere... sigh.
However I like to see my fans and I wouldn't pay $5 for these no matter how good they are because for me appearance matters...and their color scheme is like refried bean puke.
No thank you.
But if I built without a side window or glass I would get these before any other.
@Hood
I hear ya....them suckers are awful....I used them for 1 Win 10 install...3 restarts was enough for me
Currently have 6 of them in my case, (4x corsair branded + 2x china supplier) - they are so far good but their fan blade design isn't anything special but they do handle the radiators rather good.
All other corsair fans have been rather bad in my opinion.
ML and many of their powersupplies have been good but Corsair pretty much never makes stuff themselves.
Noctua Does! you know you won't get them anywhere else, and Noctua have never deviated from good quality products.
www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/phenteks_f140/3.htm
I gonna start a campaign for silentpcreview.com to revisit this when the Nocs come out
www.silentpcreview.com/article1345-page7.html
I paid about $125 to put a total of 16 Phanteks 1250 rpm fans in the box I typing from ...5 came with the case. One of them made noise.... sent in back and they examined it, sent me a new one + a spare for my troubles.
CPU and CPU_OPT Headers => Swiftech Dual Pump
CHA_1 Header => Phanteks PCB 1 => (6) PH-140SP fans on 420mm x 45mm rad
CHA_2 Header => Phanteks PCB 2 => (4) PH-140SP fans on 280mm x 60mm rad
CHA_3 Header => Phanteks PCB 3 => (6) PH-140SP Case fans
All fans are DCV drawing about 0.14 amps at full speed. 4 different speed curves are used which include pump dropping to 1/3 speed and fans shutting off at < 35C. When load is removed, radiator fans will not automatically drop with CPU temps.... speed ramps down for about 60 seconds to remove latent heat from coolant. Under stress testing (RoG Real bench + Furmark), fan speeds peak at < 850 rpm ... normal gaming about 550-625 rpm. If screen goes black (sleep), you can tell system is on.
If you wat to use these, they should come out with matching radiators and related components.
Got NF-P12 and NF-F12 with heatsinks and both had similar POS level vibration (unacceptable for fan half the price of them) likely because of very hard steps in bearing/motor.
Hopefully they perform, and make a 140mm version too, 3x intake is kinda nice
I've personally never had a Noctua fan with a vibration issue, and I've owned about 10 or so over time.
This video is very interesting:
It's like it has some angular axle.
That's no good at all for getting smooth low vibration rotating.