So Q1 2027, got it.

Add 6 months to a year to the roadmap dates, that's usually how it works with Noctua releases.

Another boring Asstek rebrand but now with Noctua fans.

Add 2 years in the timeline



Coming soon...

One thing's for sure - it's going to be butt ugly.

I'd believe Q2 2036 more than I believe Q2 2026.

Very, very neat that they are attending to the cooling of the VRMs

ChomiqOne thing's for sure - it's going to be butt ugly.

Just wait for the version with black fans. I expect that to release around 2030.

:D

All that money and R&D, and wasted into yet another Asstek AIO base. Such a shame.

This one has a fan for the VRMs

An Asetek AIO optimized by noctua is still and Asetek AIO :shadedshu:

Not interested in the slightest... Noctua's call to fame is with air coolers, why would they risk their reputation on an Asetek liquid cooler rebrand!?

ChaitanyaAnother boring Asstek rebrand but now with Noctua fans.

trsttteAn Asetek AIO optimized by noctua is still and Asetek AIO :shadedshu:

Not interested in the slightest... Noctua's call to fame is with air coolers, why would they risk their reputation on an Asetek liquid cooler rebrand!?

Gen 8 is very good, AIOs equipped with it have been top performers, but quite expensive

overclock3d.net/reviews/cases_cooling/lian-li-galahad-ii-lcd-360-rgb-review/2/#:~:text=Thermally%2C%20the%20Lian%20Li%20Galahad,even%20at%20higher%20RPM%20levels.

ShrekVery, very neat that they are attending to the cooling of the VRMs

ShrekThis one has a fan for the VRMs

Arctic has had VRM fan integrated into their pump housing for years.

Ohh the burns about the release habits of Noctua :D :D Judging by the price premium on their GPU partnerships I am scared to ask how much? But I am not buying that anyway :P

I still don't understand the Noctua's skin and baby diarrhea color shtick. Okay, you don't want to do RGB. I'm cool with that since I don't use RGB either, but for the love of god, where does this color scheme fit in? It fits into exactly 0,001% of users who do beige builds and those who do wooden builds.

Meanwhile black fits into 99% of use cases and so would white if they decided to go that route. Even if they did a off white design that looks like pastel white and it would still be better than this ugly brown. Noctua already has a great reputation, I don't understand why they need color recognition just so everyone that sees it says "these are good but butt ugly".

On top of that, this AiO. Okay, so it has ugly brown fans on the radiator that will not fit on 99% of builds, but what's with this proprietary fan literally bolted on top of a pump? Why not go with industrial look and straight up bolt a regular 80mm Noctua fan on top with 4 screws and just make housing with channels that would funnel the air down at VRMs. Or whatever size they are using here. It would look so much better and you could just replace the fan if needed.

Grey colour costs 6€ extra
Black colour costs 7€ extra.

source: Speculation by me

Quality wise I do not see any regression by using Asetek parts. It will be a quality improvement overall.

RejZoROn top of that, this AiO. Okay, so it has ugly brown fans on the radiator that will not fit on 99% of builds, but what's with this proprietary fan literally bolted on top of a pump? Why not go with industrial look and straight up bolt a regular 80mm Noctua fan on top with 4 screws and just make housing with channels that would funnel the air down at VRMs. Or whatever size they are using here. It would look so much better and you could just replace the fan if needed.

They probably tested that and found it to be less performant. Remember that we are talking about Noctua. A company that will takes months to release a black version of their fans and heatsink because they want the performance delta to be as close as possible to the standard model. That company will never be aesthetic first, and it's basically 100% guaranteed that they will sell or provide a replacement fan if needed. Anything that is bundled with their product is available in direct sale.

RejZoRI still don't understand the Noctua's skin and baby diarrhea color shtick. Okay, you don't want to do RGB. I'm cool with that since I don't use RGB either, but for the love of god, where does this color scheme fit in? It fits into exactly 0,001% of users who do beige builds and those who do wooden builds.

Probably a combination of marketing and materials; more the former than the latter.

On the marketing side, even spiteful hatred for the color scheme keeps them living rent free in the heads of tech nerds, who'll almost never fail to spot one of their products. Free advertisement at this point. There are almost no other fan manufacturers with a distinct look to their frame or fan color, although Thermalright's love for gray frames with black fans on their GT-alikes that are sold individually makes them the next notable off-hand.

On the materials side, they've been working with that color and material composite for years now, and they probably have plenty of raw material stock and locked in pricing with said materials vendors that let them just keep working with the color scheme.

That said, I feel that more computer enthusiasts wouldn't have had as big a bone to pick if Noctua at least used black frames with brown fans; at least that would be more easily hidden either behind intake grills or blackout builds.

I would love to ask a Noctua rep what the "logic" of keeping the original color scheme for their products. The brown color scheme has to limit their sales, but a considerable margin, which is usually not a sound business plan. Back when cases did not have transparent side panels, nobody cared what the color of their parts were. Now that 95% of current cases DO have visible guts, the colors of your parts is important (to most people). I realize they do have black/grey fans available, and have purchase those myself. I would just love to know the rationale of keeping the brown fans as part of their lineup.

dyonoctisGen 8 is very good, AIOs equipped with it have been top performers, but quite expensive

overclock3d.net/reviews/cases_cooling/lian-li-galahad-ii-lcd-360-rgb-review/2/#:~:text=Thermally%2C%20the%20Lian%20Li%20Galahad,even%20at%20higher%20RPM%20levels.

True that may be, you can still buy it from anyone else. I don't see why that's important for noctua to venture into when they already get money from Asus to bundle their fans for example.

trsttteTrue that may be, you can still buy it from anyone else. I don't see why that's important for noctua to venture into when they already get money from Asus to bundle their fans for example.

AiO are really popular these days, and the pump casing has been tuned by noctua. In my previous reply you could see that asus didn't really managed to keep the noise of the pump in check. So there's still work to be made even if you use a pump made by someone else.

Asus is also using the old NF fans, compared to the concurrence who's been using the latest tech in fans (like phantek) it's not a great value...without even taking into account the poor value of ROG/proart to begin with. On that aspect Asus isn't really a partner that will honor their philosophy.

And tbh, knowking Noctua, they would have either developped a super exotic pump motor technology that would be stupid expensive, or a tech decades away from coming to market :D.

But more seriously, there's a chance that they actually looked into the problem and just figured that spending R&D on the pump electric design and cold plate wasn't worth it. IIRC, I also remember someone at noctua saying that they just don't like pumps in general, because by design it's going to add some noise...and behold the one thing that they are developing internaly and trying to market in an AIO that doesn't use a pump. But there's no release window for that.

jcwbnimbleI would love to ask a Noctua rep what the "logic" of keeping the original color scheme for their products. The brown color scheme has to limit their sales, but a considerable margin, which is usually not a sound business plan. Back when cases did not have transparent side panels, nobody cared what the color of their parts were. Now that 95% of current cases DO have visible guts, the colors of your parts is important (to most people). I realize they do have black/grey fans available, and have purchase those myself. I would just love to know the rationale of keeping the brown fans as part of their lineup.

Plenty of people don't care, and most actually like it.

And like @TechLurker says, it's living rent-free in people's heads, including yours. At some point everything is advertising.

Noctua users know, they are good for fans.

After watching this and this some time ago I have several things to add to the discussion:

First of all the coldplate: from my estimation, relative to the installed Intel mounting (the distance between the center of the screws, although they're closer to the camera) it looks square and 52x52mm in size. It could be a bit bigger though.
From its outline it looks similar to the one found on Deepcool AIOs, the LS720, LT720 etc. That coldplate I've estimated to be 55x55mm relative to the dimensions of the block.
So size wise it will be sufficient, even if the mounting will allow offset for both platforms, in order not to leave any IHS portion uncovered.

My expectations regarding the mounting system are that it will be a sturdy, stable, secure, reliable etc. system. Noctua will surely optimize the coldplate so that the TIM print is as good as possible, and repeatable with every remount. That is very important, despite that most discussions focus on the coldplate, pump, fans and radiator.

The new fans will obviously be a strong point, very good performance overall, they will prioritize noise normalized conditions, so I'm expecting a win in this category but not necessarily in the max rpm category (that's more for bragging rights anyway) but you never know.

Regarding the pump I think they're correct in going with a tried and tested solution, in my opinion the pump is rarely the bottleneck for an AIO (in this day and age). It can be a weak spot if it's prone to fail early, but performance wise I don't see the point in designing an overpowered pump.

The noise dampening pump cover is praiseworthy as a concept for now, hopefully if it works well it will be praiseworthy as an actual practical thing. If so hopefully other mfgs make their own versions instead of RGB crap or vibration amplifying devices such as LCD screens.

The VRM fan though, yes I know this is not the final product, but man it looks slapped on like a m'fer. I mean its aesthetics are 1/10 not gonna lie. However if it works well who cares, right? We utilitarian fans only care about raw performance right? Well the Arctic LF3 VRM fan doesn't look slapped on and it works, the results prove it, yeah sure some say that having your VRMs go from 60°C to 50°C doesn't make a practical difference but the point is that it works while looking aesthetic, like a finished product.
So the question is how much better does the Noctua VRM fan have to be compared to the Arctic one in order to offset its ugliness? That is the million dollar question.

The tubes look 45cm, so pretty standard, I do appreciate not going for the shorter variety.

And now we reach the radiator. In the GN video (@ 08:40) I am dissapointed to learn that they will use a plain Jane radiator. For their first AIOs they go vanilla after that they will look into optimizing the radiator profile (Asetek collab much?). So they figured the other improvements will be enough to edge out the competition. That's their endgame, not total domination, they don't want to break the market, they just want to secure the crown while still leaving some juice to squeeze later.
If they would go all out and win decisively, then relative to their price (maybe $150? Although that's equal to the NH-D15 G2) everybody has to make price cuts, which would make the sub-$100 category a no brainer, so by breaking the market they will give the cheaper units an advantage which in turn will hurt their own sales. Because even now we have various exotic solutions that have better thermals than regular AIOs, the thing is that those are expensive and/or require above average skill, thus regular users don't want the hassle, they want more affordable prices for the regular solutions, and that's what Noctua will cause if they go all out and leave everyone in the dust. Like with AMD and nVidia, people want AMD to be competitive so that nVidia will lower prices. Same thing here but in reverse.

Well, some could say that there isn't much to optimize, after all they made the fans first and those are intended as either case fans or radiator fans (air coolers included as well) so there is quite a broad range of profiles for which these fans would be a good match. Including the plain Jane AIO rads (27mm, 20 FPI, 12 water channels). True, but how many people swap their AIO fans for Noctua ones? Not many, methinks. And how common is this type of radiator for watercooling setups? Well from what I've seen those usually have somewhat different profiles.
And another argument, how optimal is a plain Jane rad for noise normalized conditions?
Shouldn't they better use a 30mm 18 FPI radiator? Just saying.
One other detail is Chieftec Iceberg's example. The fin profile there is parallel, does that do anything meaningful? I don't know I cannot test it and find out, but even if this one is snake oil there are other aspects which might be worth exploring.
All in all at least the overall thickness will be a very slim 52mm, which will look even better if it's top performing.

What this means? Well I certainly won't buy this AIO (not that anyone cares about that) for the following reasons:

- it will probably be too expensive to justify the improvements over other cheaper AIOs;

- if the hotdog color scheme is kept then it's 100% a skip from me;

- given they're not optimizing the radiator, and thus not giving 100% for this product, why would I give them my money? Seriously, why? I mean they're clearly holding back their punches, why would I reward that behavior?

Wake me up when the V2 drops.