Review on 🌬️ Noctua NF-S12B redux-700: Silent 120mm Fan, 700 RPM - Grey by Michal Adach ᠌

Name: 🌬️ Noctua NF-S12B redux-700: Silent 120mm Fan, 700 RPM - Grey
Item: 🌬️ Noctua NF-S12B redux-700: Silent 120mm Fan, 700 RPM - Grey
Rating: 5

May 03, 2023

Everything in the purchase suits, a very necessary product.

The whole charm of this design lies in the reobas 5.25 GELID Solutions SpeedTouch 6, which has huge adjustment possibilities, including the complete shutdown of a single fan or all at once, except for the processor, powered separately. The device is connected to 2 case coolers and an Arctic fan from the Palit GeForce® GTX 1650 KalmX video card with passive cooling and a large heatsink.

Now two case Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200 are constantly plowed with a minimum voltage at 840 rpm each, giving a total of 1700 revolutions and an air flow of about 120-130 cubic meters per hour - this is 2 cubic meters per minute. I don't even turn on the video card cooler.

With a room temperature of 26.1 degrees Celsius, the situation in the system unit is as follows:
28 degrees around the power supply.
29 degrees on the warmest pipe of the video card radiator.
8-10 centimeters from the motherboard is already 27 degrees.
The temperature of the vidyuhi chipset is 32 degrees.
If you turn on the cooler on the vidyuhi at the minimum possible 1050 rpm, then the temperature on the graphics chipset drops to 29 degrees at rest.

Subjective conclusions:
1. Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200.
In a single hull copy at maximum speed, it is noisy, but it is tolerable if a high and noble mission is set - to cool the insides, no matter what. In the amount of two pieces - only with reobas.
2. Noctua NF-P12 redux-900.
In a single instance, I think it will be good and quiet. I already wrote about two Nokutas at 840 rpm - the flight is normal, but if you add reobas - the silence can be adjusted even better.
3. Noctua NF-S12B redux-700.
Quietest. I think if you need to install two exhaust fans without a reobas in the case and you need silence, this is what you need.

Oh, and one more thing . at 12 volts, the Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200 produces from 1240 to 1350 rpm. One at the maximum is still tolerable, but two or more - thank you! Someone from the buzzing of this apiary may get stuck, but I will soon hit fifty kopecks - the stormy youth is behind me, and more and more I want peace .

Pros

There is no backlight. Manufacturing quality. Very long service life and 6 years warranty. Powerful air flow. Quiet at low speeds, when the latter are controlled by reobass: you can even hear hard drives and the fluttering of the processor fan.

Cons

Price. The rumble of air at maximum speed is quite significant - it is treated either with a pressure-reducing insert-resistance, or with a system speed control regulator (reobas). Noctua NF-S12B redux-900 was not available, so I considered 3 options: 1. Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200 - blown by design: the air flow is dispersed to the sides. 2. Noctua NF-P12 redux-900 - a blower with a narrowly directed flow, designed to blow through radiators, but it can also be used as a blower. 3. Noctua NF-S12B redux-700 - blown, with a diffuse flow. I wanted to take the third or second option, but settled on the first, because there is a reobas. I installed the Noctua NF-S12B redux-1200 case fans on special rubber anti-vibration screws, and attached a 140x140x27 Arctic P14 fan at 1700 rpm to the video card heatsink with plastic ties - so, just in case a fireman, if it suddenly gets warm under load. What happened in the end?