Noctua has added to its A-series premium cooling fan line with the addition of new 200mm, 120mm, and 40mm models. In addition to the new fans, the company also introduced a new fan controller, anti-vibration mounts, and S-ATA power adapter cable.
Noctua CEO Roland Mossig had this to say about the company’s latest additions to the A-series line, :
Customers have been asking us for 20cm and slim 12cm fans for years, but meeting the quality standard users have come to expect from Noctua fans in these form factors has proven very challenging, so it took us quite some time to make sure that these fans live up to our name. The NF-A4x20 has been conceived following requests by our industrial clients who are looking for a 40mm fan that provides superior performance in pressure-demanding applications as compared to the existing NF-A4x10.
Noctua claims designing a high quality 200mm fan isn’t easy. The mass of a 200mm impeller is about four times greater than that of Noctua’s 120mm fans. Due to the use of a new fiberglass reinforced polypropylene material, designers were able to reduce the mass of the NF-A20 impeller by 26% At the same time, the diameter of the axis and the bearing were increased from 3mm to 4mm to better distribute the load over a larger bearing surface.
These fans are ideal for use with water cooling systems with limited space or in small cases.
While the NF-A12x15 fan was slimmed down, the company doubled the thickness of its 40 x 40 x 10mm fans to 40 x 40 x 20mm for applications that require higher pressure performance such as rack mounted servers and other devices like NAS enclosures. All the fans share Noctua’s Flow Acceleration Channels, Advanced Acoustic Optimisation (AAO) frames, SSO2 bearings, and an MTTF rating of more than 150,000 hours and a six-year manufacturer’s warranty.
Noctua also added a new fan controller for up to three 4-pin PWM fans. The controller can be used to manually control fan speed from 0 to 100% or work in tandem with 4-pin PWM headers to allow fans to run slower than the motherboard’s PWM setting. The company also announced new silicone anti-vibration mounts that work with both standard open and closed corner fans 10mm to 25mm in thickness. Finally, there is a new SATA to 4-pin power adaptor cable for those of you that want to run high-wattage fans directly from the SATA connectors on your power supply.
Noctua said all of the new products will be available shortly. MSRP prices are as follows:
| NF-A20 PWM | $30 |
|---|---|
| NF-A20 FLX | $30 |
| NF-A12x15 PWM | $20 |
| NF-A12x15 FLX | $20 |
| NF-A4x20 PWM | $15 |
| NF-A4x20 FLX | $15 |
| NF-A4x20 PWM 5V | $15 |
| NF-A4x20 FLX 5V | $15 |
| NA-FC1 | $20 |
| NA-SAV3 | $8 |
| NA-SAV4 | $8 |
| NA-SAC5 | $8 |
