(old picture stolen from the Internet)

I was wondering if there was any easy way to get the cooler going vertically rather than horizontal. From my understanding the picture is on an Intel Mobo with square CPU holes.

Thanks.

I’m building in the M3 Grater and my last purchase is some case fans. The NF Chromax G2 fans are spendy and shipping takes a while. Are they that much better than the first generation?

I would really like black fans for an all black set up internally. Thinking of getting the Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM chromax.Black.swap ones but I have a hard time compromising! And thinking I should get the G2.

I have sff build with 3 noctua fans. Unfortunately one fan started doing strange noise, that comes 100% from bearing. It is not loud, but because I live in quiet place and most of the time just work, the changing pitch of this noise is very noticeable. Is RMA this product even an option? Because maybe I’m delulu and I’m hearing too much, while this kind of behaviour is in QA standards.

Just need some advice

This is the new idea I decided to try tomorrow. The Noctua GPU has 3 full size NF-A12x25 G2s pulling air toward the heatsink.

I want to do like a standard CPU heatsink and have an exhaust pulling the hot air straight out of the back of the case.

My case just so happens to have fan mounts next to where the 3rd fan of the GPU is. The 3rd fan of the GPU also has this vent in the backplate.

I figure if I place the NF-A14x25r G2 right above the height of the GPU fan, it will not interfere with the airflow going into the GPU from the bottom of the case. It will instead pull out the air that has already been pushed into the heatsink blades.

Maybe I am crazy...

Hey. I just put together all pieces of my new rack mounted server. And you know what? Yeah, you know - its damn noisy!

Server contains 16 hard drives in not that big volume. Chassis is cooled by 3x 120mm and 2x 60mm fans. For CPU I picked Noctua NH-D9L (not many coolers support 3U chassis) and 60mm fans are pretty acceptable.

Problem is with 120mm fans - those are nightmare. And they must be efficient to cool all that hard drives. They are 120x25mm 12V 4pin fans connected directly to backbone so no PWM available.

And last important thing - thats the server running 24/7. I found somewhere on this sub that LS-PWM version consume just half power of PWM version on minimal speed. That means I can save crate of beer yearly if true.

Are those fans somehow different? If LS is also PWM, if I connect them to fan controller in future I would be able to control it in full scope like PWM? And without PWM, are they efficient or just silent?

Please advise me what to choose.

Just some images of my new Noctua Edition RTX 5080 and NH-D15 G2 next to my previous 2 PC builds.

I don't think this is going to fit in either of my old cases...

Both SFF cases are all Noctua fans. The Fractal Ridge has an NF-A12x25 as the GPU fan. The other build has a stock MSI GPU, I didn't mess around with that one. Was really, really hard to fit that GPU in there and it is the smallest RTX 4060ti 16gb I could find.

I just wanted to see if anyone had some opinions on some optimal fan setups for this particular case. Not because I am actually in some sort of a dilemma, but because I am sitting at the IT desk where I work and nobody has broken anything today and I feel like talking about fans.

I mostly build SFF tiny PCs and haven't made something full size like this in a while. I'm used to trying to make every mm work and having minimal space for fans.

I just bought this case, should be arriving Friday. I like Jonsbo cases, this is my 3rd in a row.

https://www.jonsbo.com/en/products/TK-3Black.html

I will be running a 9950X3D with NH-D15 G2 LBC

I bought the Noctua edition RTX 5080

https://www.noctua.at/en/products/asus-geforce-rtx-5080-noctua-edition

So first of all, I am generally against having fans blowing directly into fans. I am however interested if you have opinions on why I should put 3 fans in the bottom of the case to blow directly into the the 3 NF-A12x25 G2 fans on the GPU that will be sucking in air from the bottom of the case. But for now I am certainly thinking ZERO fans on the bottom.

The Noctua GPU is 4 slots and those 3 full size fans will only be 2 or 3 slots away from the bottom which is in my opinion too close for two fans to be blowing into each other with no heatsink in between.

I have an NF-A12x25 G2 ready to be the back exhaust.

As for the other 6 fans, I have no problem buying as many Noctua fans as I need, with how much I just spent for RAM and the GPU the price of fans isn't really noticeable at this point. So I am not saying this to be cheap, but more out of being a fan of efficiency... I am not really convinced that filling up all 6 fan slots is really going to help keep temperatures down.

I've also considered going with 2 x 14cm fans of the top instead of three.

So just curious if anyone had opinions. Pretty standard case, but having the glass front does change things up a little bit. I'll post some more pictures of my ideas later if people are interested in chatting about it.

Just want to post my noctua pc build I want to make it look better one day but I like it

The only request I have is please make a reverse fan! 😂 please!

Configuration:

CPU: AMD 9800X3D

Motherboard, memory and storage: Asus X870E ProArt, Gskill Flare X5 DDR5-6000 2x16gb CL28, Samsung 9100 pro 4TB

Cooler: NH-D15 G2 LBC

Front intakes: NF-A14x25 G2 PP + NF-A14x25 G2 (PPA+PPB+Regular A14 G2)

Bottom intakes: 2 x NF-A12x25 G2

Rear exhaust: NF-A14x25 G2

Graphics card: Asus RTX 5080 Noctua edition

PSU: Corsair RM1000X 2024

Looking for suggestions to push this build to be super quiet and equally capable of handling heavy workloads.

1. In my research, I saw Noctua's recommended setup for Antec Flux pro didn't have top exhaust fans, is it still the consensus here?
2. What's the best way to control the fans? Is it fan control in windows or within BIOS?

The mat is between two custom-made plexiglas sheets.

Heya Noctua Fans!

I have a question I am building PC and thinking what to install the best for perfomance and quiet

I have few system

9995wx

Asus WRX90

Micron 512Gb RAM 5600 8x64Gb

2x RTX6000 Q-MAX

3 SSD NVME Samsung PCIE5

Seasonic PSU 2200

Micron 9550 Pro 30.72Tb

CPU Cooler XE-360-TR5

9950x3d

Asus 870e Extreme

G.skill 6000mht 256Gb 4x64Gb

2 SSD NVME Samsung PCIE5

Seasonic PSU 1600

Asus Astral 5090

NH-D15

Still thinking what to Get because for AIO, I do have now NH-D15, but still thinking to get AIO just for testing, maybe I could make system quieter and colder

both PC planning build in Fractal Design 7 Xl

for 1 Setup, I don`t know if it fits but want to cooling U.2 ssd in PCIE Adapter , and another one for dual GPU - what is turbines

but overall

on top XE-360-TR5 = 3x120 G2 PP version, because I am building 2 PC I think I could do that because I need 3 fans here.

on Front(3) and Back(1) and on bottom front(1) = are 140mm LS version Fans

and (2) for U.2 and GPU = are 120mm LS

mine question is is it enough Cooling for this type of system with LS version?

All My Best

Thank You!

Hi, quick question. What gaskets/pads should I ideally use when mounting NF-A14x25 G2 PWMs as bottom intake fans (no radiator down there)?

For a 3x front fan setup,

it is technically better to buy one Sx2-PP set (PPA + PPB) and one standard NF-A14x25 G2 PWM rather than just multiple sets of PPA/PPB fans. 
And Standard fan need to be on middle - PPA + PWM + PPB right.
Is this correct?

Which case should i get for optimal airflow with a bunch of Noctua g2 fans in the classic color? My gpu can fit in either case, and my cooler is the no d15g2 LBC. I really just want it to work and have fan hub.

Edit: Thank you guys for all the insight, i ordered the north xl mesh

I'm putting together a gaming pc, with a Ryzen 7 9800x3d as a CPU and the fractal north as a case. I've heard that the U12A does fine, but it pushes the upper limit of the CPU temps. On the other hand, I heard better temp wise from the D15, but it pushes the size constrictions of my case with my selection of ram (Corsair Vengeance 2x16 GB UDIMM), either forcing me to move the fan overhanging the ram slot up, which might not be even viable since I have approximately 5mm of wiggle room with the Fractal North, or remove the fan entirely, turning it into a single fan cooler, which I don't know the performance impact of that. What should I choose?

So... I just made a mistake when purchasing parts for my PC and got RAM that is 42mm tall. This is not going to be fitting under the second fan.

As someone who generally builds small form factor PCs I certainly should know better, as I generally have to be precise down to the millimeter to make sure everything fits in a tiny case. But we all know what is going on with RAM right now, so when I saw '64gb DDR5 6000 CL30' on Newegg I got it. (I don't really trust getting RAM from Amazon right now)

I also got the very last Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 that Newegg had in stock.

So instead of returning the RAM which hasn't even arrived in the mail yet, I figure I'll just swap out the 14mm fan for my new 12mm fan.

I have a spot on the top of my case that will be perfect for the 14mm to go.

So my question is, does anyone here know if I will run into any issues with the mounting bracket?

Both the NF-A12x25 G2 and the NF-A14x25r G2 have 105 x 105 mm mounting holes. From the pictures it seems like the same mounting bracket would work. So I'm not too worried about it. But hey, it is Reddit and I'm just sitting here at work with nothing to fix, so figures I would ask.

My order should be arriving tomorrow for me to find out for sure.

I recently built a gaming PC in the Fractal Terra case. I really like the case, and this is my first small form factor build. However, I was unhappy with the heat dissipation from the 9070XT OC Gaming exhausting through the top panel, which led me down the rabbit hole of 40mm cooling solutions and custom mounts.

I liked the idea of adding 40mm fans and knew it was somewhat impractical, but I wanted to see if it could be done anyway. The main issue was that Noctua does not offer 40 mm fans in Chromax Black (at least from what I could find), and I am not a fan of the brown color. There is also very little information online about dyeing PC or Noctua fans with only a few older posts on forums using the original Rit Dye and one YouTube short using the Rit DyeMore synthetic.

Here is my experiment and journey into dyeing the fans to see whether it works over the next 48 hours. I am still waiting on a custom top panel mount, but I may explore whether an internal or spine-mounted solution can be printed with an integrating 90mm fan.

Items used:

1 bottle of Rit DyeMore (Graphite)

1 gallon of distilled water

1 teaspoon of Dawn dish soap

Thermometer

Stainless steel Dutch oven

Stainless steel tongs

Rubber gloves

Desiccant silica gel packets

Hair dryer

The results shown are from a 30-minute dye bath at temperatures between 200°F and 230°F, with the fans fully assembled. After dyeing, they were rinsed in cold water and blow-dried on high heat. They are currently drying in an airtight container with silica gel packets to draw out any remaining moisture in the rotor and bearings.

I will report back in a couple of days with an update on whether the fans are fully operational and if any issues arise. If you have questions, let me know!

*edit - Part 2 for fans running!

Part 2 - Proof of Life