Author: Chris Hunter

Editor: Scott Piercy

Model: Noctua NH-U12F

           Noctua NC-U6

Manufacturer: Noctua

Price:   NH-U12F - $59.95

            NC-U6 - $28.95

When striving for performance, an enthusiast will usually have to forgo any hopes of a reasonably quiet system. This is due to the rather high heat dissipation capacity needed to run modern processors and usually these solutions are noisy. However, an Austrian company has surfaced amongst common enthusiast circles and has been earning some buzz.

Noctua has been providing flexible and scalable cooling solutions that rival most of the big companies in performance while claiming to be tremendously less intrusive to the audio environment. Noctua has taken their new fan and implemented it into a tower cooling setup with sound pollution in mind as well as performance. Today we will be taking look at the NH-U12F tower cooler along with the NC-U6 Chipset cooler. We will see if Noctua has once again given common enthusiasts a way to have performance with a reduction in fan noise.

First, let us get those specifications out of the way.