I have 7 Noctua fans running in my system. 9 if you count the ones in the GPU. Some of them are brand new, others are 9 years old, came from my previous system, and are still perfect. I used a LGA1700 mount for my U14S. I could not be more satisfied. Looking forward to installing two of these in place of two A12x25s in the bottom.
I've also ran 9 Noctua-fans, in my case & CPU-cooler, for 14-15 years and they still work great and _so_ quiet! Would love to have one of those RTX 4080/4090's with dual Noctua-fans.
Replaced a P14 ARGB I had on the front of my case with one of these. The noise profile is so much better it's insane and the temperatures actually dropped as well with the extra air the NH-D15 is now getting. It's actually surprising how well this worked out. I have previously swapped the A14 on the cooler itself with the round frame variant. (The front fan on the cooler is an A12, because the A14 won't fit in the case on top of the ram)
I bought 5 of these to use them as case fans, from 850 to 1000 rpm you can hear the fans "humming" which is quite annoying. I tried using Noctua's rubber grommets and running them at slightly different speeds, the issue persists. Maybe does it come from the fans' motors ? At 1100+ rpm, the sound of the air moving covers the humming noise so it's more bearable. Good thing is that at 800 rpm, the fans are silent, yet you can still feel with your hand that they move a decent amount of air through the case.
Hello! It's best that you contact the Noctua support team and provide them with more information so they can try to troubleshoot the humming issue. It could be that some fan mounting rails are too close to the leading edge of the fan blades, and using intake spacers might help. However, we would greatly appreciate it if you could provide full feedback by emailing us at support@noctua.at or using our contact form at: noctua.at/en/contact
I noticed you focused at the higher fan speeds, I really wonder how do these compare at lower acoustic levels personally I'm running my A12x25 at ~650RPM to avoid noise, I'm assuming a 140mm would need to go even lower than that another interesting aspect would be: a fan specifically designed for lower speeds like that could potentially have even tighter tip clearance resulting in improved low speed performance but I understand most users are not as acoustically demanding as I am so designing and releasing that would be infeasible
In what world you run your fans at 650rpm even in idle ? Do you know that at this speed even if it's Noctua fans it blow literally nothing ? It's even worse if your component are far from the fans, you only can do that on ITX system when component are literally close from your fans. 800/900 are the minimum on ATX system and 1400rpm are the maximum to avoid noise during gaming with NF-A12x25 ( i have a lot of these one's )
@@AquilaeYT it provides noticeably more performance than with them stopped and running them faster would cause unacceptable noise, tested with multiple fans and orientations, that's the best I managed to get
@@Z4KIUS I don't compare or even talk about zero RPM but with a decent noise/performance ratio RPM, like 800/900rpm. 600~ is too slow and didn't push air far and it isn't strong enough to push through a radiator so i don't understand why you dare to put them to these ultra low speed. I'm in a slow room with two PC's, i'm very sensitive to coil whine, turbulences etc and at 800/900Rpm you literally didn't hear anything on a good PC case. Maybe your case have bad rail mounting or require some space that Noctua sell separatly because case like Fractal often give a bad rail mounting and only intake front (while exhaust mounting give less turbulences) While gaming i put those A12x25 at 1400rpm max and 800 minimum (when idle, not gaming) a great curve with Fan Control software. Anyway, these A14x25 will probably the best of both world because 140mm fans at low speed is okay but 120mm...meh.
800 is unacceptably noisy 700 is unacceptably noisy around 680 is the limit LC radiator wouldn't make sense either, LC is one huge problem when it comes to silent operation, literally everything has to be engineered perfectly to work as expected AC is the only way and that's the universal limit for basically all mounting positions and orientations, except pull directly against a mesh when it needs to go even slower simply at this speed these fans move enough turbulent air to become an acoustic issue for me and yet U12A is still (slightly) more performant than P1 with these tight limits
@@Z4KIUS Sorry, I'm resuming because you don't seem to have understood correctly : At no time the NF-A12X25 are noisy at the RPM rates you indicated, it's simply undeniably false. (and i'm very sensitive to noise because my office has a lot of density (furniture etc.) and is small, so noise treatment. Like i previously said, if you run a PC that are not a 300 dollars/euro office PC, 600/700 RPM is to slow, that's simply how it is. You talking about LC/AC (but acronyms for?), If you have a mesh box/mesh distance too close to the fan/intake mounting system and the fan is mounted behind the rail, it will create turbulence, that's how it work. And the NF-A12x25 can be noisy in this scenario (and all fans will be, since it's suction effect) and if the rail passes in front of it, it's even worse. This is surely your problem, you may have been misinformed because of this error due to your case, on an NZXT H7 Flow for example the fans are placed behind the rail but have no protuberance of the rail which passes in front , the "mesh" is quite far from the fans so I don't have any turbulence, 1400rpm is my maximum when gaming and i don't hear anything (while some people let them at 2000rpm but i found these type of RPM ridiculous.) Then, speaking of performance, at 600rpm, this fan (like others 120mm) does not send "any air", literally you have to stick the component to the fans (like on ITX system) so that the flow is effective, due to the distance of the components from the fans & due to the low RPM rate/by its small size 120mm. Where the 140mm could run at 600/700rpm and be efficient (besides the ULN for the 140mmG2 is 800rpm max) I pity your components if you run AAA games or even 1440p/4K at high FPS or simply edit, you have a PC that burns easily or your PC is in the fridge.
It really depends on your requirements. If IP ratings (certified water and dust protection) are essential for your application, then the NF-A14x25 G2 might not be the best choice. For maximum airflow, the 3000 RPM iPPC model again, takes the lead. However, if you’re prioritizing quiet operation with high efficiency, the NF-A14x25 G2 is your top contender.
The NF-A14x25 G2 chromax.black is estimated to be released in Q1 2025. :) For the latest updates on all upcoming Noctua launches, feel free to check our product roadmap here: noctua.at/en/product-roadmap
@@keewee23 You are delusional. Nobody said cheap ones wouldn’t last long. It’s very simple but it seems not so simple for u. Noctua will highly work longer than cheap ones. You playin lottery with cheap ones and with noctua not. Simple as that. Go do your homework’s from school.
@AquilaeYT I'm not sure about coil whine and turbulence, but as for performance the silent wings 4 pro is literally the best fan you can get right now aside from the phanteks t30 (the silent wings are still 25mm thick vs t30 being 30mm)
This looks amazing! I’m super eager to try these! However, why are the charts truncated? Why don’t they start at 0°C or m³? The delta ambient ones don’t even have the same framing. Why make your data look misleading if it doesn’t have to be? 🥲
Maybe the performance doesn't scale linearly?? That's my only guess... if that's not the case, it's misleading and I've seen it before with noctua charts.
The purpose of these graphs is to highlight key differences that may not be as visible, especially taking into account viewers on mobile devices with smaller screen sizes.
He looks familiar to me! Welcome Back!
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@@NoctuaVideos Where is Matic?
I like his new shirt.
I have 7 Noctua fans running in my system. 9 if you count the ones in the GPU. Some of them are brand new, others are 9 years old, came from my previous system, and are still perfect. I used a LGA1700 mount for my U14S. I could not be more satisfied. Looking forward to installing two of these in place of two A12x25s in the bottom.
I've also ran 9 Noctua-fans, in my case & CPU-cooler, for 14-15 years and they still work great and _so_ quiet!
Would love to have one of those RTX 4080/4090's with dual Noctua-fans.
cant wait to fill my case with these fans so i can hear my gpus coil wine better!
noctua always delivers 🔥
was waiting for it to update my fans
thanks noctua🙏
When you want the best this company provides the best in the long run.
This
Replaced a P14 ARGB I had on the front of my case with one of these. The noise profile is so much better it's insane and the temperatures actually dropped as well with the extra air the NH-D15 is now getting. It's actually surprising how well this worked out. I have previously swapped the A14 on the cooler itself with the round frame variant. (The front fan on the cooler is an A12, because the A14 won't fit in the case on top of the ram)
We’re very pleased to hear that your upgrades are producing noticeable improvements!
Computer too hot? Give it that Nawk Tuah
Omg 😂
I need Steve from gamers Nexus to say this 10 times in a fan review
Wait another 4 years for the black version? :)
The chromax version is planned for Q1 next year: www.noctua.at/roadmap
Q1 2025
yo that hoodie is pretty cool. Where can I buy it?
Glad you like it! You can buy it on Amazon: noctua.at/en/np-h1-brown/buy
I bought 5 of these to use them as case fans, from 850 to 1000 rpm you can hear the fans "humming" which is quite annoying. I tried using Noctua's rubber grommets and running them at slightly different speeds, the issue persists. Maybe does it come from the fans' motors ?
At 1100+ rpm, the sound of the air moving covers the humming noise so it's more bearable.
Good thing is that at 800 rpm, the fans are silent, yet you can still feel with your hand that they move a decent amount of air through the case.
Hello!
It's best that you contact the Noctua support team and provide them with more information so they can try to troubleshoot the humming issue.
It could be that some fan mounting rails are too close to the leading edge of the fan blades, and using intake spacers might help. However, we would greatly appreciate it if you could provide full feedback by emailing us at support@noctua.at or using our contact form at: noctua.at/en/contact
I noticed you focused at the higher fan speeds, I really wonder how do these compare at lower acoustic levels
personally I'm running my A12x25 at ~650RPM to avoid noise, I'm assuming a 140mm would need to go even lower than that
another interesting aspect would be: a fan specifically designed for lower speeds like that could potentially have even tighter tip clearance resulting in improved low speed performance
but I understand most users are not as acoustically demanding as I am so designing and releasing that would be infeasible
In what world you run your fans at 650rpm even in idle ?
Do you know that at this speed even if it's Noctua fans it blow literally nothing ?
It's even worse if your component are far from the fans, you only can do that on ITX system when component are literally close from your fans.
800/900 are the minimum on ATX system and 1400rpm are the maximum to avoid noise during gaming with NF-A12x25 ( i have a lot of these one's )
@@AquilaeYT it provides noticeably more performance than with them stopped and running them faster would cause unacceptable noise, tested with multiple fans and orientations, that's the best I managed to get
@@Z4KIUS I don't compare or even talk about zero RPM but with a decent noise/performance ratio RPM, like 800/900rpm.
600~ is too slow and didn't push air far and it isn't strong enough to push through a radiator so i don't understand why you dare to put them to these ultra low speed.
I'm in a slow room with two PC's, i'm very sensitive to coil whine, turbulences etc and at 800/900Rpm you literally didn't hear anything on a good PC case.
Maybe your case have bad rail mounting or require some space that Noctua sell separatly because case like Fractal often give a bad rail mounting and only intake front (while exhaust mounting give less turbulences)
While gaming i put those A12x25 at 1400rpm max and 800 minimum (when idle, not gaming) a great curve with Fan Control software.
Anyway, these A14x25 will probably the best of both world because 140mm fans at low speed is okay but 120mm...meh.
800 is unacceptably noisy
700 is unacceptably noisy
around 680 is the limit
LC radiator wouldn't make sense either, LC is one huge problem when it comes to silent operation, literally everything has to be engineered perfectly to work as expected
AC is the only way
and that's the universal limit for basically all mounting positions and orientations, except pull directly against a mesh when it needs to go even slower
simply at this speed these fans move enough turbulent air to become an acoustic issue for me
and yet U12A is still (slightly) more performant than P1 with these tight limits
@@Z4KIUS Sorry, I'm resuming because you don't seem to have understood correctly :
At no time the NF-A12X25 are noisy at the RPM rates you indicated, it's simply undeniably false. (and i'm very sensitive to noise because my office has a lot of density (furniture etc.) and is small, so noise treatment.
Like i previously said, if you run a PC that are not a 300 dollars/euro office PC, 600/700 RPM is to slow, that's simply how it is.
You talking about LC/AC (but acronyms for?), If you have a mesh box/mesh distance too close to the fan/intake mounting system and the fan is mounted behind the rail, it will create turbulence, that's how it work.
And the NF-A12x25 can be noisy in this scenario (and all fans will be, since it's suction effect) and if the rail passes in front of it, it's even worse.
This is surely your problem, you may have been misinformed because of this error due to your case, on an NZXT H7 Flow for example the fans are placed behind the rail but have no protuberance of the rail which passes in front , the "mesh" is quite far from the fans so I don't have any turbulence, 1400rpm is my maximum when gaming and i don't hear anything (while some people let them at 2000rpm but i found these type of RPM ridiculous.)
Then, speaking of performance, at 600rpm, this fan (like others 120mm) does not send "any air", literally you have to stick the component to the fans (like on ITX system) so that the flow is effective, due to the distance of the components from the fans & due to the low RPM rate/by its small size 120mm.
Where the 140mm could run at 600/700rpm and be efficient (besides the ULN for the 140mmG2 is 800rpm max)
I pity your components if you run AAA games or even 1440p/4K at high FPS or simply edit, you have a PC that burns easily or your PC is in the fridge.
Glaube das der NF-A14x25(r) G2 eines der besten Noctua Lüfter geworden ist 😀
We’re very pleased to hear that your upgrades are producing noticeable improvements!
Are these NF-14Ax25 G2 better than NF-14 iPPC 3000 PWM?
It really depends on your requirements. If IP ratings (certified water and dust protection) are essential for your application, then the NF-A14x25 G2 might not be the best choice. For maximum airflow, the 3000 RPM iPPC model again, takes the lead. However, if you’re prioritizing quiet operation with high efficiency, the NF-A14x25 G2 is your top contender.
When can we expect the NF-A14 industrialPPC g2 version with higher RPM ?
Please follow the link and see if any of the Amazon listings will be a suitable option for you:
noctua.at/en/np-h1-brown/buy
Why do basically none of the charts start at 0 or a sane number?
please release in india too
The NF-A14x25 G2 chromax.black is estimated to be released in Q1 2025. :)
For the latest updates on all upcoming Noctua launches, feel free to check our product roadmap here:
noctua.at/en/product-roadmap
thermalright doing the competence very hard
1:43 Please stop scaling your graphs like this to visually exaggerate the gains. Its a cheap marketing trick and you're better than that.
that pricing is insane
No. It’s perfect. I’ll have my fans from 2007 still in use. You pay for quality product
@@MrChocobit i have 20 years old fans working, cheap ones. You are delusional.
@@keewee23 You are delusional. Nobody said cheap ones wouldn’t last long. It’s very simple but it seems not so simple for u. Noctua will highly work longer than cheap ones. You playin lottery with cheap ones and with noctua not. Simple as that. Go do your homework’s from school.
Just do them in black and white
Black will come next year! noctua.at/roadmap
Very dissapointed with the deceptive bar graphs,
The graphs should start at 0 degrees not at 23.5 or 25 degrees.
Its marketing
It makes no sense to start the graphic below typical room temperature since no fan can ever reach lower temperatures than that.
@@2manyscrews it’s ΔT though, so already referenced against the ambient temperature
Competitors already achieving 90% of what Noctua fans can do for like 50% less lol.
but theyre not noctua
@@SaltyWound noctua is not noctua
just brown and no black options. hard pass. Be quiet will be the fan for me
The chromax version is planned for Q1 next year: www.noctua.at/roadmap
And give you coil whine, bad performance, turbulences, good luck :D
@AquilaeYT I'm not sure about coil whine and turbulence, but as for performance the silent wings 4 pro is literally the best fan you can get right now aside from the phanteks t30 (the silent wings are still 25mm thick vs t30 being 30mm)
@@NoctuaVideos why you can't release at same time?
This looks amazing! I’m super eager to try these!
However, why are the charts truncated? Why don’t they start at 0°C or m³? The delta ambient ones don’t even have the same framing. Why make your data look misleading if it doesn’t have to be? 🥲
Maybe the performance doesn't scale linearly?? That's my only guess... if that's not the case, it's misleading and I've seen it before with noctua charts.
The purpose of these graphs is to highlight key differences that may not be as visible, especially taking into account viewers on mobile devices with smaller screen sizes.
@@NoctuaVideos If it was only about visibility you could just start with the full graph and zoom in as you explain the details.