Quote:
Originally Posted by slothfish
The Noctua is designed as a silent cooler, and it has little to do with the fan it is packaged with. The fin density is much sparser than something like a TRUE or a Megahalems, therefore weak fans work very well on them.
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Weak fans =/= silent fans, except in the case of Noctua's fans. The silence actually does depend heavily on the fan, and how it responds to
any restrictive surface, regardless of fin density when it comes to coolers and radiators. This is why Slipstreams are such horrible fans to use on heatsinks/rads. Point is, Noctua's "silence" marketing depends on their fans, and to make sure the fans can get any air at all through the fins, Noctua loosened the fin density drastically. This is great if you want decent silent performance out of the box, but if you want the best performance out of the Noctua itself, the fans will have to be pulled off (same with any other cooler, really, but the difference is the fin density doesn't benefit the really good fans nearly as much as the TRUE/Hammer/Megahalems).
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