Sponsor: Get 10% off Squarespace purchases (https://geni.us/BqEpf)We interviewed one of Noctua's technical team members (Jakob Dellinger) to discuss the chal...

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“We interviewed one of Noctua’s technical team members (Jakob Dellinger) to discuss the challenges and troubles of focusing entirely on performance for a cooling product. This video goes over fan behaviors like tensile strength, endurance, aging, creep, and cooling characteristics like blade tip distance from the frame and blade passing harmonics. The video is a surprisingly transparent insight into what Noctua has been dealing with for 8 years now as it has attempted to reinvent its most popular product, and the company now thinks it has an NH-D15 Gen2 and “Next Gen Fan” nearly ready for primetime.”

    • setInner234@feddit.deOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Is your username indicative of your fan choices? ;)

      Couldn’t agree more btw., most of my fans have been Noctua for a long time. Even though they are just a few % better than other, much cheaper fans, I find the noise profile itself to be much more pleasant at higher RPMs.

      Anyway, then I bought a used 3080 and now my computer sounds like an F16 taking off.

      • RoaringSilence@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Is your username indicative of your fan choices? ;)

        You got me 😁

        Anyway, then I bought a used 3080 and now my computer sounds like an F16 taking off.

        Good and silent gfx cards are even harder to get, if you don’t want to pay an arm and a leg.

        • setInner234@feddit.deOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yup and I’m working with very limited space in an SFF (meshlicious) case. I repasted the thing and made a custom fan curve, which, with noise-cancelling headphones, makes the noise manageable.

        • Zopiac@lemmy.one
          1·
          1 year ago

          Exactly why I went for a custom loop after years of saying I’d never put water in my system. Now my GPU is cooled by the same fans as the rest.

          I’m not certain, but I might have gotten lucky with just how silent the pump I got was (a low noise oriented DDC from EK – can’t remember the exact model right now).

  • lightrushEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I find it very difficult to buy something other than Noctua. 🤷 Hearing how they design, test and what performance targets they strive for, assuming one can afford them, it’s just hard to go elsewhere. And I do have 10yr+ Noctua fans running.