Meh, noctua does good stuff but their GPU partnerships have been kind of silly, of course if you put a giant heatsink the thing will be cooler but where's the engineering effort to build a card that's not 4 slots thick? If it weren't for the power connector fire hazzard fiasco the FE would be king, it's engineered to be cool - cool enough at least - while being on the smaller size, much smaller than necessary, i'd be fine with the 3 slots of the 3090 and 4090, 600w 2 slot card was really a massive flex on what is possible lol

The only thing going for them is the standards fans, but even there the fan is standard but the connector is not.

dgianstefaniIt's not a matter of guessing, we know Noctua coolers are objectively better, both when tested independantly as fans, or as full cooling units, like on GPUs or CPUs.

Not better enough to justify the price of admission, you can get a MSI Vanguard or Suprim for 250$, pay 20% more for a 3 to 4ºC cooler? Nah.. no way

EsaTAnd in case of cases there's hardly any real choise nowadays compared to selection 15 years ago

What??? You never had as much choise as there is now, there's a big tendry of tempered glass and now fishbowl dual chamber designs but you can still very much get cases that are none of those things, you just need to look. There never were so many brands, designs and store selling them as there are now, saying otherwise is just unnecessary hyperbole

Vya DomusI'd assume someone spending this much does. If you wanted the best cooling you'd buy a card with a water block, which would be cheaper probably, it's a very strange product for people with very strange taste.

> 150,000 hr MTBF fans with nice tonality that are literally inaudible at full load (24 dBA), and zero WC loop maintenance/potential warranty issues or complexities of installation. It's a product that may not fit your taste, but the EIC of this site, for instance, seems to enjoy his.

I wish there were more cards where I could easily replace the fans like this. I'd swap in 3000rpm Noctuas in an instant if there was a more universal and common design.

Vya DomusI'd assume someone spending this much does. If you wanted the best cooling you'd buy a card with a water block, which would be cheaper probably, it's a very strange product for people with very strange taste.

This is me in a nutshell. First thing I do is remove the cooler and slap on a block. Go big or go home!

UpgrayeddI wish there were more cards where I could easily replace the fans like this. I'd swap in 3000rpm Noctuas in an instant if there was a more universal and common design.

Most cards can be deshrouded and have normal pc fans mounted, they just don't look as clean and perform slightly worse than a designed for purpose system like this.

soulphiethe entire world says computers have become too expensive, and then there are stories like this.
Some people have too much money and too little sense

Relative to what they were 25 years ago, computers are way cheaper now. And also a decent PC can last you 3-5 years for gaming and close to 10 years for browsing, YT and general stuff. A PC from 2000 was totaly obsolete for everything by 2010.

MentalAcetylidePeople see "Noctua" and think its going to somehow be much better than the others without the Noctua fans?

For me, Noctua = reliability and long life. There might be better products out there but only time will tell if they will last 5+ years and be as silent as the day they were pulled out from their packaging. If i had the money i would go for a xx70 AMD/Nvidia card with Noctua fans.

UpgrayeddI wish there were more cards where I could easily replace the fans like this. I'd swap in 3000rpm Noctuas in an instant if there was a more universal and common design.

There is a better timeline where during the series 7 and X8xx, the industry recognized is better to design GPU coolers around case fans for the consumer to change them for whatever reason much like we do with CPU coolers nowadays, and for some reason that is escaping the conversation. These days I'm refurbishing a P4 into a W98 machine and I wish I lived in the other timeline because of how noisy the 20 year old fan of the GPU is.

If you don't want a 4 slot hyper performance card like a 5090, then water cool it and make it 2 slot, with better cooling. It is the only other option. There will never be a 2 slot card of this performance, so live with it, or put a WB on it.

I dont recall ever having issues with GPU fans on any GPU I have owned, the quality tends to be high enough they outlive the use of the card, so an area I dont care for Noctua.

that's one chonky cooler

A reviewer I know has a bunch of G2 fans, what he said made me think that maybe I have been too hard on Noctua. Their coolers can suck it, but their G2 fans are supposed to be pretty good. Good enough for me to maybe change my tune..

Another covert advertisment, eh?

Dear Noctua, try to put your overpriced stuff on GPUs I care about the next time.

Also: "... and a whopping $1,500 MSRP"

Just GFY.

Vya DomusI still can't believe people buy these, it's not just the price, it's how ugly it is.

Well. When it's upside down you can't really see the fans. Plus theres no RGB, so that might appeal to some prospective buyers

FreedomEclipseWell. When it's upside down you can't really see the fans. Plus theres no RGB, so that might appeal to some prospective buyers

Just knowing they are baby diarrhea colored is disturbing even though they are facing down and you have a solid metal panel case... God forbid Noctua would do the black one that can fit into like 3/4 builds instead of 34 builds in total worldwide. I did a custom graphic card redesign with the Chromax Black Swap fans and it looked really good. Very industrial. Why can't we have THIS instead? As much as Noctua is respected, I sometimes don't understand them at all.

RejZoRJust knowing they are baby diarrhea colored is disturbing even though they are facing down and you have a solid metal panel case... God forbid Noctua would do the black one that can fit into like 3/4 builds instead of 34 builds in total worldwide. I did a custom graphic card redesign with the Chromax Black Swap fans and it looked really good. Very industrial. Why can't we have THIS instead? As much as Noctua is respected, I sometimes don't understand them at all.

What does it matter if they are black or not, you cannot even see them with them facing down, and with a shroud. You could of course buy it anyway and change the fans to black Nocs.

TheDeeGeeSame goes for people buying all the rainbow puke and LCDs inside the case, it's so ugly.

Hey my PC has an objection. Never mind it looks like the inside of a 1980's Alien Sci-Fi horror flick.

^^Yo Dawg I heard you like PCs so I put a PC inside yo PC!!


+1 for the Aliens vibe with all them water tentacles.

FoulOnWhiteWhy do looks have anything to do with it, that is LV handbag talk. The main thing with a GPU like this is how well it is cooled/running temps, who gives a stuff what it looks like. Has the PC industry become a fashion show? or have PC users just become fashion victims.

stability and performance over looks, I RGB other things in my life lol.

dgianstefani> 150,000 hr MTBF fans with nice tonality that are literally inaudible at full load (24 dBA), and zero WC loop maintenance/potential warranty issues or complexities of installation. It's a product that may not fit your taste, but the EIC of this site, for instance, seems to enjoy his.

This product will definitely appeal to many, price can be a separate consideration to that appeal. These more expensive and premium versions of already premium and expensive products are an easy target for negativity though.

dgianstefaniMost cards can be deshrouded and have normal pc fans mounted, they just don't look as clean and perform slightly worse than a designed for purpose system like this.

yeah, if they're 3000rpm fans they'll blast past whatever design flaws come up lol
the headers on my 30series eVGA cards won't take regular 4pin fans iirc. There is only one 4pin header at the end of the card to link a case fan with.

dgianstefaniMost cards can be deshrouded and have normal pc fans mounted, they just don't look as clean and perform slightly worse than a designed for purpose system like this.

It's not a terrible alternative, but you have to jerry rig a way to fix the fans in place and either repin the connector or get an adaptor, so there's room for improvements (i.e. if the coolers had screw holes for standard fans built in even if they come with the regular shroud and puny fans)

RejZoRJust knowing they are baby diarrhea colored is disturbing even though they are facing down and you have a solid metal panel case... God forbid Noctua would do the black one that can fit into like 3/4 builds instead of 34 builds in total worldwide. I did a custom graphic card redesign with the Chromax Black Swap fans and it looked really good. Very industrial. Why can't we have THIS instead? As much as Noctua is respected, I sometimes don't understand them at all.

Kudos on the 3d printed fan supports, if that's an older 2000 series strix card I very much would like the STL if you still have it :cool:

trsttteIt's not a terrible alternative, but you have to jerry rig a way to fix the fans in place and either repin the connector or get an adaptor, so there's room for improvements (i.e. if the coolers had screw holes for standard fans built in even if they come with the regular shroud and puny fans)



Kudos on the 3d printed fan supports, if that's an older 2000 series strix card I very much would like the STL if you still have it :cool:

It's a RTX 3080... maybe you can mod it for yours depending on design. But this was pretty much tailored specifically for Palit/Gainward design because of how they use a cast aluminium frame to which all this attaches.

www.thingiverse.com/thing:6522612

Didn't read it all. But give the funds and I would Noctua my whole build. Ohhhh it's beige???? Is it quiet and cool? Sign me up. Do I stare through my side panel at my pc no. Performance yes.

overclockedamdDidn't read it all. But give the funds and I would Noctua my whole build. Ohhhh it's beige???? Is it quiet and cool? Sign me up. Do I stare through my side panel at my pc no. Performance yes.

I mean, the build LTT did some time ago going with the whole Beige(TM) design looked nice and I've seen one with wood case design that looked good. But that's such a super narrow niche thing I just don't get it. Okay, so the beige is your company theme, but at this point, Noctua is so recognizable by name, they can be of ANY color. So, insisting on beige is weird when they could be doing black that is much widely used and preferred. I'd actually prefer if they did white. The amount of white builds is huge and given their obsession with perfection, they would probably perfect the issues white usually has (being beige or off white instead of actual white).

RejZoRI mean, the build LTT did some time ago going with the whole Beige(TM) design looked nice and I've seen one with wood case design that looked good. But that's such a super narrow niche thing I just don't get it. Okay, so the beige is your company theme, but at this point, Noctua is so recognizable by name, they can be of ANY color. So, insisting on beige is weird when they could be doing black that is much widely used and preferred. I'd actually prefer if they did white. The amount of white builds is huge and given their obsession with perfection, they would probably perfect the issues white usually has (being beige or off white instead of actual white).

I honestly love the noctua builds i think they look nicer than 99% of the rgb puke on the market.