Noctua NF-S12 and NF-R8 Fans Review
Introduction
Every day we see an increasing necessity to buy more fans, like CPU fans, video card fans, chipset fans, case fans, and others, to keep or at least, try to keep, the computer cool. Unfortunately, with all these fans and coolers, eventually you’re going to experience a lot of noise. For this reason, the cooling market has worked to offer products designed specifically to solve this problem, offering high quality fans with as low noise as possible, or ultra-silent, would be the best name to call it.
Today we’re going to review two products from Noctua, the NF-S12 and NF-R8 fans. Noctua claims to deliver an ultra-silent fan with high-quality. First of all, let’s know a little bit more about this company.
About Noctua
“Noctua aims at establishing a new level of quality and performance “Designed in Austria” through paying attention to the users’ needs in a market burdened with all kinds of frills and furbelows and providing sound-optimized premium components, which serve their purpose in a smart, precise and reliable manner.
Noctua arises from cooperation between the Austrian Rascom Computerdistribution Ges.m.b.H and the Taiwanese Kolink International Corporation and entertains a development partnership with the Austrian Institute of Heat Transmission and Fan Technology (Österreichisches Institut für Wärmeübertragung und Ventilatorentechnik, ÖIWV). These connections form the key to the achievement of our goal: The partnership with the ÖIWV permits the application of scientific measurement instrumentation, methods of calculation and simulation technology in the R&D process. Rascom’s long, customer-oriented experience in developing and distributing sound-optimized high-end products ensures a clear focus on the users’ needs. The use of Kolink’s advanced manufacturing technology and ultra-modern production plants allows us to efficiently implement our technical edge and provide solutions of the highest standard in quality and performance at a fair price.”
