Introduction

A fan is just a fan, right? Not quite. Fans are an integral part of just about every aspect of technology whether it’s aiding in cooling the radiator of a can, circulating air in your house, or cooling the components of your video game system or PC. Now many people will think that all that matters is how much airflow a fan produces and how much cooling performance it can maintain, but there is more to it than just that. Think about it this way; how practical would it be to have a computer that was cooled so well by these high powered fans, but all you would hear was the constant whirring of the fans?

Today’s technological advances have covered the entire gambit from hardware to software, and the cooling components have seen the advancements, as well. Many fan companies now offer highly efficient fans that cool incredibly well, but offer very little in the way of noise contribution from the system. I currently have some of the quietest running fans in my one computer case and on the heatsink, that if it weren’t for the case lighting, I would never know that they were on. These wonderful fans happen to come from a common name in computer cooling, Noctua.

The Noctua NF-S12B 120mm fans are designed with noise control in mind. The Noctua NF-S12B fans can be run in three different fan speeds for performance versus noise, depending on your application. The included jumpers allow for fan speed selection to fine tune the performance, while keeping acoustical contributions in mind.